James Packer And Lachlan Murdoch No Longer Telling Their Friends About One.Tel, These Days Preferring Simply To Bitch To Them About How Much Weight The Other Has Gained Over The Past Few Years

Feud-alert!

smh.com.au is reporting that the relationship between Lachlan Murdoch and Scientology-fan James Packer is no longer a rosy one, with the pair suddenly morphing into replicas of their bickering fathers after a business deal went awry.

Says the paper –

The decade-long truce in the great war of the media moguls has ended – or at least taken a nasty turn for the worse.

While they may have respected each other, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch were bitter rivals, personally and in business.

It took their sons, James and Lachlan, to forge a ceasefire that developed into what appeared to be a strong friendship – a relationship that survived the collapse of One.Tel, billion-dollar losses and embarrassing court hearings.

Yesterday, that all appeared to founder. A $3.3 billion deal announced in January for the pair to partner a buyout of the old Packer media empire, Consolidated Media Holdings, collapsed amid accusations of treachery from both sides.

“There’s certainly been a falling out,” said one source close to the deal. “Relations are strained.”

Noooooooo!

The true sign that this friendship is done and dusted will be, of course, if one defriends the other on Facebook. We’ll be regularly checking their mates list and will inform you of any hasty removals immediately.