From friend to foe: Behind the tangled relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump [View all]

(LA Times) President Trump once called Rupert Murdoch "my very good friend."

But the 94-year-old media baron, whose fortunes have risen in tandem with Trump's political ascent, has turned into an unlikely foe.

Trump has bristled over a Wall Street Journal report that he allegedly sent a suggestive letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. Trump denied sending the message, calling it a "fake," and last month he filed a $10-billion defamation suit against Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., Murdoch and others.

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