Rupert Murdoch has lost a legal fight to change his family's trust, which would have let his son Lachlan take control the family's media empire after Murdoch's death.

The episode inspired Elisabeth Murdoch’s representative to the family trust, Mark Devereux, to write a “‘Succession’ memo.” The document, aimed at avoiding a real-life parallel to the show’s turmoil, marked the beginning of what would become a deeply contentious family feud.