2. All three were from the hinterland of the old Empire who made their way to metropolitan London, seeing it as the natural seat of a global media empire (Maxwell via the British allied Czechoslovak Army in exile, Black from Canada, Murdoch from Australia).
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3. Maxwell's murky death in 1991 (he fell off or jumped from the Lady Ghislaine, named for his latterly infamous daughter) revealed that his press empire was built on fraud and embezzlement. It left lingering questions about his connections to various intelligence agencies.
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4. Black ran into his own financial and legal troubles in the early 20th century, being convicted of fraud in 2007 & serving time. Lavish living & an overstretched empire. Murdoch reputedly said of Black that he was a man with $100 million who tried to live like a billionaire.
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5. Black has won a kind of niche redemption on the right, becoming a loud and (it has to be said) pitiful ass-kisser of Trump in many essays and a book. For his services, he's received a presidential pardon.
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6. With his puny rivals vanquished, Murdoch has only gone from strength to strength, continuing to poison the politics of multiple anglophone democracies. He and Black only speak of each other disparagingly.
@bellye66 & I tell one part of the story here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-felonious-fan-club?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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Succession: Origins
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ah yes, ghislaine maxwell’s father
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Would support if Quentin Tarantino can give it an "Inglourious Basterds" twist ending
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book, miniseries, movie? hell yes I would consume in whatever form
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Sounds like a Geoffrey Archer novel adaptation
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