Overview
- Murdoch's black-tie celebration was held Saturday at The Grill in the Seagram Building in New York City.
- Hugh Jackman performed multiple numbers, including Fly Me to the Moon, New York, New York and songs from The Greatest Showman, and closed with I Still Call Australia Home.
- A prerecorded message from President Trump praised Murdoch as "legendary" and "one of a kind," even as Trump pursues a defamation case tied to a WSJ item about an alleged 2003 Epstein birthday greeting.
- Coverage listed a wide-ranging guest roster that included Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, former UK leaders Tony Blair and Rishi Sunak, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, owners Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft, Barry Diller and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- Speakers included Lachlan Murdoch, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, and Elena Zhukova, while reports noted that James, Elisabeth and Prudence did not attend following a 2025 family-trust settlement that paid them about $1.1 billion each; outlets variously report Trump’s suit at $10 billion or $20 billion.