– Rupert Murdoch has four votes in a family trust that controls nearly 40 percent of News Corp.'s voting stock, and his four eldest children, Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan and James, each have one. The arrangement was reached in a divorce settlement with his second wife, Anna Torv, in 1999. The vote count is integral to understanding how disagreements between the siblings and their father might affect a possible power struggle when Rupert Murdoch steps down.