Rupert Murdoch

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News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng, arrive at the High Court in London on Thursday, April 26, 2012, before Mr. Murdoch's appearance before the Leveson panel, which is investigating the British phone-hacking scandal. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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** FILE ** News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch appears before Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into U.K media ethics on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Pool)

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** FILE ** News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch (center) and Rebekah Brooks, then the chief executive of News International, leave Mr. Murdoch's residence in central London on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

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**FILE** Rupert Murdoch (right), Chairman of News Corporation, and his son James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, arrive July 10, 2011 at Rupert Murdoch's residence in central London. (Associated Press)

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Singer Charlotte Church testified that she was hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation. She received $951,000 Monday in a phone-hacking settlement. (Associated Press)

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News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch reads his group's the Sun daily newspaper on Feb. 17, 2012, as he is driven from his home in central London. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform on Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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British actor Hugh Grant arrives to testify at Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal about phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. "There has been a section of our press that has been allowed to become toxic over the past 20 or 30 years," he said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** James Murdoch (left) and his father, Rupert Murdoch, testify on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, before the British Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee about the now-shuttered News of the World phone-hacking scandal. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Rupert Murdoch by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Committee members react after a protestor, left checked shirt, named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, tries to throw a paper plate covered in shaving foam over Rupert Murdoch as he gave evidence to a House of Commons Committee in London, Tuesday, July 19, 2011, on the News of the World phone hacking scandal. (AP Photo/pa)

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** FILE ** Media baron Rupert Murdoch gives evidence before the British Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal in this image taken from TV on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, in London. (AP Photo/Press Association)

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Photographers and cameramen surround the Range Rover carrying media mogul Rupert Murdoch along Whitehall in London on Tuesday, July 19, 2011, ahead of his and his son James' appearance before a House of Commons committee on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)