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BumRushDaShow

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15. They were doing day-to-day running of it

Reply to True Blue American (Reply #7)

Fri Nov 9, 2018, 10:29 AM

Nov 2018

(at least one specifically shoved over to the Wall Street Journal back when all that mess was happening with his UK tabloids and phone hacking of MPs and celebrities) but he still owned it.

He sold 20th/21st Century Fox (bought by Disney) and Sky (bought by Comcast) and some other things in his empire.

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