Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has paid $840,000 in legal fees to an Australian publisher, closing the door on a long-winded dispute over an op-ed accusing the Murdoch family of bearing responsibility for the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol.
Murdoch sued the news website Crikey last August, after the publishing of an opinion column that argued that the Murdochs and Fox News as a whole should be blamed for the riot due to the network’s peddling of false election narratives.
The $840,000 payment is intended to cover Private Media’s legal fees in the case as a result of the defamation case brought against Crikey’s publisher by Murdoch.