James also recalls another parallel with Succession in which the family are invited to a family counselling retreat so they can understand how to better “behave with each other.” When interviewer McKay Coppins asks if this retreat was more business or personal, James replies: “There’s no difference in this family.” Meanwhile, Kathryn notes: “I think that the shrink was outmatched.”.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Rupert and Lachlan described James’ claims in the interview as a “litany of falsehoods [...] from someone who no longer works for the companies but still benefits from them financially.” A spokesperson for Lachlan denied James’s version of events numerous times throughout The Atlantic piece.
In a tell-all interview with The Atlantic, James Murdoch, the second-eldest of the three children Rupert Murdoch shares with former journalist Anna dePeyster, gave a rare insight into the war at the heart of the family.
Kathryn Murdoch, James’s philanthropist wife, is also interviewed as part of The Atlantic piece and provides insightful peeks into what it is like to join the Murdoch family as an outsider.
The current Murdoch family drama has been rather hilariously kickstarted by the season four plotline of the HBO show Succession, where the family patriarch dies and his children must decide who gains control of his company.
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