In a 2001 Vanity Fair story about Liz and Freud’s courtship, Freud was quoted openly mocking Rupert. The article infuriated Rupert. A story later circulated through Freud’s London office that one night, Freud got home and couldn’t get a signal on his TV. When he called the BSkyB customer-service line to ask about the problem, the representative responded coldly, “We’ve been instructed not to turn on this account.
In which Rupert Murdoch has his son-in-law’s cable disabled because he doesn’t like a quote he gave.
Source: New York Magazine
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