and his oldest children over the terms of a trust holding the family's 28.5% stake in News Corporation, estimated in 2005 to be worth about $6.1 billion. Under the trust, his children by Wendi Deng share in the proceeds of the stock but have no voting privileges or control of the stock. Voting rights in the stock are divided 50/50 between Murdoch on the one side and his children of his first two marriages. Murdoch's voting privileges are not transferable but will expire upon his death and the stock will then be controlled solely by his children from the prior marriages, although their half-siblings will continue to derive their share of income from it. It is Murdoch's stated desire to have his children by Deng given a measure of control over the stock proportional to their financial interest in it (which would mean, if Murdoch dies while at least one of the children is a minor, that Deng would exercise that control). It does not appear that he has any strong legal grounds to contest the present arrangement, and both ex-wife Anna and their three children are said to be strongly resistant to any such change. Portrayal on television, in film, books, and music Murdoch has been portrayed by: Barry Humphries in the 1991 mini-series Selling Hitler Hugh Laurie in a parody of It's a Wonderful Life in the television show A Bit of Fry & Laurie Ben Mendelsohn in the film Black and White Paul Elder in The Late Shift Himself on The Simpsons, first in "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" and later in "Judge Me Tender" Patrick Brammall in the 2-part mini-series Power Games Simon McBurney in the 2019 mini-series The Loudest Voice Malcolm McDowell in Bombshell Ben Miller in two UK comedy TV series: Tracey Ullman's Show and Tracey Breaks the News. Murdoch and rival newspaper and publishing magnate Robert Maxwell are thinly fictionalised as "Keith Townsend" and "Richard Armstrong" in The Fourth Estate by British novelist and former MP Jeffrey Archer. Towards the end of his touring career, Eagles drummer and lead singer Don Henley would often dedicate his 1982 hit "Dirty Laundry" to Rupert Murdoch and Bill O’Reilly. In 1999, the Ted Turner-owned TBS channel aired an original sitcom, The Chimp Channel. This featured an all-simian cast and the role of an Australian TV veteran named Harry Waller. The character is described as "a self-made gazillionaire with