Media mogul Rupert Murdoch turns 90 today, and apart from his family, it’s The New York Post, and New York City, that have the most reason to celebrate the milestone.
The Big Apple hasn’t been the same since Murdoch bought the paper from Dorothy Schiff in late 1976. The city is immeasurably more self-aware and better-informed than it was when its media were uniformly liberal if not outright left-leaning. It’s also a more fun place to be, thanks to Page Six.
The newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 owes its existence for the past 44 years almost entirely to Murdoch. He lifted it out of the doldrums when he took it over in January 1977; forged a brave conservative media voice until it was stripped from him by vengeful politicians in 1987; and returned to rescue it from certain collapse in 1993.
Along the way, Murdoch’s Post overcame bankruptcy, union shutdowns and a determined attempt by the archrival Daily News to kill it. The Post soldiered on through the economy-ravaging crises of the Black Monday stock market crash, 9/11, a second Wall Street collapse in 2007 and the coronavirus pandemic.
Murdoch has been inseparable from The Post for nearly half of his life span — even including the five-year interval when he relinquished control of the paper but never lost his passion for it. His empire stretched from Tasmania to Tinseltown. He ran newspapers around the world, Hollywood studios and TV networks. He invented the Fox News Channel and backed great films such as “Titanic” and “Avatar.” Through it all, he never wavered in his commitment to The Post or to the Big Apple.
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As much today as in the 1970s era of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR, The Post holds up an unflinching mirror to a metropolis that once again is desperately threatened by economic despair, corrupt and foolish politicians — and by the new menace of “woke” ideology.
Murdoch never gave up on the paper, and today, the print edition boasts the nation’s fourth-highest daily circulation, while investment in The Post’s digital edition propelled it into a new realm of popularity. More people read The Post than in its entire history. As a result, The Post turned “its first profit in modern times,” News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said last month.
Not bad for a paper whose death was forecast again and again from the day Rupert Murdoch first set foot in the newsroom on Dec. 30, 1976, never to look back. So happy birthday, boss. Here’s to many more.
Hollywood heartthrob Liam Hemsworth has quietly sold a Malibu property ravaged by the 2018 Woolsey Fire.
“It’s been a heartbreaking few days,” Mr. Hemsworth wrote on his social media almost exactly two years ago, next to a photo of the decimated home that was reduced to ashes save for a fireplace and remnants of a few walls. “…my heart goes out to everyone who was affected by these fires.”
Two years later, Mr. Hemsworth, 30, has apparently decided to sell rather than rebuild. The trust through which he owned the home quietly closed an off-market deal last month, selling the 7.4-acre lot for $3.6 million, according to a deed filed with Los Angeles County on Oct. 13.
The mystery buyer was a Wyoming-based limited liability company, public records show. It’s not known which or whether any real estate agencies were involved in the deal.
Before the fires, Mr. Hemsworth lived at the tony Malibu home, a landlocked three-bedroom, three-bathroom house at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, with his then-wife, singer Miley Cyrus, according to Variety, which first reported the sale. The pair have since split.
The transfer marks a significant, but not unsurprising, loss in value for the destroyed property. It last traded hands in 2014, as a handsome steel-and-glass ranch with a pool and acres of wooded land, for more than $6.81 million — nearly double its October sale price.
In the wake of Woolsey, Mr. Hemsworth hinted at rebuilding. “I love you Malibu,” he wrote on Twitter in November 2018. “Thank you to all the hero firefighters around California. It’s going to be a journey to rebuild.”
But the property is little changed since he posted the devastating photo.
Aerial shots from Google Earth capture the harrowing losses on Ramirez Canyon Road. Stills taken the month Woolsey ripped through the neighborhood are obscured by the smoke followed a couple months later by a clear view of the wreckage. Little that can be identified remains except the pool and the charred framework of the neighboring pergola. A brick fireplace and chimney stack, impenetrable to the blaze, still rise from the center of the ruins in the latest Google aerial shots, dating to spring 2019.
Building records show minimal work was done to the site ahead of the sale. Only two building permits were issued since the fire, including for basic debris clearance and excavation, according to building records with the City of Malibu — meaning the mystery buyer certainly has work cut out for them.
A publicist for Mr. Hemsworth did not immediately return a request for comment.
