Murdoch family fights to keep succession battle secret as Nevada hearings loom

Labyrinthine drama over which Murdoch child will get Fox Corp empire begins out of public view on Monday

The Murdoch family succession drama enters a new phase in a Reno, Nevada, courtroom this week when patriarch Rupert Murdoch will probably argue that plans by three of his children to potentially change the business model of the news-communications empire will damage the interests of Fox Corp shareholders.

Sadly for followers of the intense and labyrinthine Murdoch family drama - one that partly inspired the fictional HBO series Succession and many of its plot lines - the arguments and testimony stemming from the bitter feud will not be in public view.