- Journalist and novelist. Mother of Elisabeth Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch. Aunt of actress Anna Torv.
- Her family emigrated to Australia when she was 9. Following her parents' divorce, she raised her young siblings, then became a reporter at the Sydney Daily Mirror and later the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
- During her 31-year marriage to Rupert Murdoch, she was his active partner in News Corp.
- Was a chair of the LA Children's Hospital board of regents. Active in Haiti, she served as chair of Hospital Albert Schweitzer for children in Deschapelles, Haiti.
- Author and philanthropist.
- In 1998, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II.
- Resident of LA in the 1990s, she worked for Children's Institute, which services over 5,000 abused children yearly.
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