The 'sailing accident' that Rupert Murdoch told employees left him slightly incapacitated and forced to work from home back in January 2018 was actually far worse than the mogul revealed at the time.
That 'accident' was a late night fall that some family members did not think he would survive reports The New York Times.
Murdoch, 88, and his fourth wife Jerry Hall were guests on his son Lachlan's yacht Sarrisa when the billionaire media mogul fell while making his way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
He was then airlifted from the Caribbean to a hospital in Los Angeles with broken vertebrae and a spinal hematoma.
Immediate surgery was required for the vertebrae, while the hematoma threatened to leave him paralyzed or possibly even killed the head of News Corp.
Hall was 'in a panic,' and so concerned about her husband's situation that she made the decision to call his adult children and tell them to come to Los Angeles immediately, and be prepared to make peace with their father.
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Near-fatal fall: Jerry Hall was 'in a panic' after Rupert Murdoch (Hall and Murdoch at Vanity Fair's Oscars party in February) fell while going to the bathroom in the middle of the night on his son Lachlan's yacht in the Caribbean
Gang of four: The fourth wife of the billionaire media mogul called his children and urged them to fly to Los Angeles and be prepared to make peace with their father (Murdoch talk with son James and Lachlan with wife Sarah at the 2014 Allen & Co conference)
Tux it: This was the third serious fall Murdoch had suffered, with his family managing to keep two previous incidents out of the press (daughter Elisabeth with husband Keith Tyson in 2017 above)
Soon after that fall, Murdoch sent an email to staff members that was first obtained by Vanity Fair.
'I hope you all are having a great start to 2018. I suspect it has been better than mine,' wrote Murdoch.
Lil' yachty: Doctors successfully operated on his broken vertebrae and a spinal hemotoma, weeks after Murdoch and Bob Iger agreed to the sale of Fox assets to Disney (Lachlan's yacht Sarissa in 2013 above)
'I am writing to tell you that last week I had a sailing accident and suffered a painful back injury. While I am well on the road to recovery, I have to work from home for some weeks. In the meantime, you’ll be hearing from me by email, phone and text!'
The Times reports that Murdoch has previously suffered two bad falls prior to the incident on Lachlan's yacht.
Murdoch had fallen while exiting a stage and another time tripped on the carpet of a hotel in San Francisco, but in both cases the family managed to prevent the news from leaking to the press.
His four oldest children soon found themselves at Ronald Reagan U.C.L.A. Medical Center after that 2018 fall, travelling from London, New York and the Caribbean to be at their father's bedside.
The surgery was a success and after seeing his children around his bed, Murdoch joked that he had no idea how serious his situation was at the time.
MURDOCH MADE HIS SIX CHILDREN BILLIONAIRES, BUT REFUSES TO NAME AN HEIR TO HIS EMPIRE
Murdoch's heirs are now battling behind the scenes for control of the empire, with the two top contenders appearing to be his sons James and Lachlan.
The brothers have had a tumultuous relationship over the years which had become more frayed than ever of recent after Lachlan was promoted over his younger brother by their father, despite James' loyalty to the family company.
The media mogul is the father of six children, who range in age from 61 to 16.
The oldest is Prudence, who is Murdoch's only child with his first wife, Australian model Patricia Booker.
She has held various positions in her father's companies but now lives in Sydney where she is lrgely focused on raising her thee children.
Murdoch's youngest children are Grace (18) and Chloe (16), the New York-based daughters born to Murdoch's third wife Wendi Deng.
Chloe is currently attending an Ivy League college while her sister attends private school in Manhattan.
Then there are the three who are poised to take control of their father's media empire -Elizabeth (50), Lachlan (47), and James (46).
All three work in media, with Elisabeth currently experiencing success with Vertical Networks, a startup that provides app-based series that are produced to be viewed in cellular devices.
The relationship between Lachlan and his father has run hot and cold over the years, but that all changed back in 2014 when Murdoch's oldest son returned to New York to work for News Corp.
Now, he is the Chairman and CEO of the Fox Corporation.
James, the youngest of the three, was the most loyal, staying by his father's side and joining News Corp shortly after he dropped out of Harvard.
That devotion was tested however when Murdoch elected to promote Lachlan over James reports the Times.
The brothers already strained relationship only got worse when Lachlan informed James of this decision over lunch.
James even briefly quit the company, but then ultimately decided to return.
Sister, sister: Murdoch's youngest children are Grace (18) and Chloe (16), the New York-based daughters born to Murdoch's third wife Wendi Deng (above in 2016 at Murdoch's wedding to Hall)
FIRE AND ICE: HOW LACHLAN BEAT OUT HIS LOYAL BROTHER JAMES TO WIN CONTROL OF FOX NEWS, THEIR FATHER'S MOST VALUED ASSET
This all came about in the wake of the $52.4 billion deal that Murdoch made with the Chairman and CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, just a few weeks before his fall.
That deal stripped Murdoch's media empire of its film and television assets, including: 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, FX Networks, National Geographic Partners and a 30 percent stake in Hulu.
The Murdochs maintained control of Fox News and Fox Business Network on the news side and FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network on the sports side.
Twenty-eight Fox affiliates are also still part of the company, now knows as Fox Corporation.
A bidding war with Comcast also manged to drive up the preliminary offer that Iger and Murdoch first agreed too, and Disney ultimately paid $71.3 billion in the deal.
That deal was also a source of tension between James and Lachlan, with James being in support of the sale and Lachlan opposed to selling off the company's assets.
Things got so heated, that Lachlan even threatened to stop speaking with his father if he went through with the deal, an ultimatum that Murdoch did not heed and Lachlan did not follow through on in the end.
Lachlan also reportedly saw the sale as a failure brought about by his brother James' failure to negotiate a deal to takeover British Sky Broadcasting, which the family had owned a 39 percent stake in at that time.
That stake was sold to Comcast for $15 billion following their losing bid for the Fox film and television assets.
The inability of James to negotiate a takeover on two occasions would seem to have less to do with his abilities however and more to do with the fact that both attempts came during the two most disgraceful periods of Murdoch's reign.
The initial attempt at a takeover was blown out of the water back in 2011 following the phone-hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World.
It was revealed that reporters at that paper and others in the News International family, which was a subsidiary of News Corp, had hacked into the voice mails of actors, models, royals and even a 13-year-old dead girl.
James was more confident five years later as he prepared to present the possibility of a takeover the second time.
The, the Roger Ailes scandal hit, becoming international news overnight.
Not only did the Murdochs not secure a takeover, but regulators voted that no member of the family would ever be allowed to serve in any capacity at Sky moving forward.
James was the chairman of Sky at the time.
He has been eyeing a job at Disney during merger talks last year, but threw in the towel when he realized that the position he desired inside the company was not one that would be available to him according to three sources.
MEDIA MOGUL TO POLITICAL POWERHOUSE: HOW MURDOCH'S OUTLETS HELPED ELECT TWO NATIONAL LEADERS AND GAVE HIM ACCESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
At the same time, Murdoch's media companies have played major roles in the election of President Donald Trump in the United States and Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Australia.
That is due in large part to the reactionary model he favors from his news stations and print outlets.
Lachlan sides on his father in that regard while James is opposed, having twice been publicly humiliated by the actions of family-owned companies at critical times in the media empire's history.
The election of President Trump has also given Murdoch a backstage pass to the wheelings and dealings going on at the White House.
This is thanks to the almost advisory role his employees have been unofficially given by the commander-in-chief, who is more likely to speak with Sean Hannity or Judge Jeannine Pirro than members of his own administration on some issues.
The sitting president also has a voracious appetite for the 24/7 news coverage that Murdoch ushered in with Fox News, and the network's largely favorable coverage has resulted in Trump almost exclusively sitting down for interviews with Fox News hosts.
Now, with a recent sale to Disney having stripped Murdoch of most of his media assets in the United States and made all six of his children billionaires, the family can focus on its most successful creation - Fox News.
And as of now, it is Lachlan who is holding the reins to that polarizing entity, with no noticeable desire to change its course.
How the family will deal with Lachlan wrestling control from them, should he win out in the end, remains to be seen.
And the Times reports that past efforts have managed to quickly spin out of control.
'Murdoch tried to manage the tensions, arranging for group therapy with his children and their spouses with a counselor in London who specialized in working with dynastic families,' reveals the Times.
'There was even a therapeutic retreat to the Murdoch ranch in Australia. But these sessions provided just another forum for power games and manipulation.'
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