How gratifyingly ironic and, oh, how very timely. Just as viewers of Succession are left wondering whether the story can possibly survive the death of its patriarchal media-mogul star, Logan Roy, comes the infusion of real-world drama, courtesy of the very figure on whom many say the TV series is based.Indeed, it is hard to recall a moment when fact and fiction have seemed quite so tantalisingly entwined. But yesterday, as news of the demise of Roy was filling the airwaves and social media chatrooms, a sensational report was being published into the whirlwind life and troubled times of the tycoon .It appeared in Vanity Fair, the snooty New York magazine which for years has forensically dissected every twist and turn in the Murdoch family's fortunes, good and bad. In its latest issue it reveals what it claims is the inside story of how Murdoch abruptly ended his marriage to 's ex-wife by email and how she, 'devastated and humiliated', made an effigy of her husband which she then ceremonially burned.
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