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This is the fifth marriage of the founder of News Corp. The media mogul put the ring on the finger of his new partner in his huge vineyard in California.
Exclusive pictures from the Anglo-Saxon tabloid Sun – to which Murdoch belongs – show them hand in hand, he in a white dress, he in a black suit. Famous billionaire and media mogul Rupert Murdoch married for the fifth time this Saturday, June 1, 2024, at the age of 93, to his new partner, 67-year-old retired Russian biologist Elena Zhukova. Their wedding took place at Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling California vineyard. The wife of the Honorary President of News Corps held a lily of the valley bouquet in her hands. The latter is the mother of Daria Zhukova, art collector, ex-wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. While the Sun has yet to release the photos on social media, other outlets have captured images showing us the ceremony.
Divorced and remarried
Rupert Murdoch, who has six children, was first married to Australian flight attendant Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967 and then to British journalist Anna Torv for more than 30 years. He was married to Chinese-born businessman Wendy Deng, a graduate of Yale University, until their divorce in 2013, before reuniting with model Jerry Hall in 2022. After another divorce in 2023, he got engaged a few months later. , for the fifth time with a certain Anne Leslie Smith, before breaking up less than a month later.
According to the BBC, he met Elena Zhukova immediately after this last breakup. The two reportedly met at a party hosted by one of his ex-wives, Wendy Deng. Newly single, she was previously married to Russian oil billionaire Alexander Zhukov.
New York Post and Wall Street Journal
For his part, Rupert Murdoch is known to have made a career in Australia in the 1950s before buying newspapers. News of the World And Sun in the United Kingdom in 1969. He later acquired a number of American publications, including New York Post and Wall Street Journal. In 1996, he launched Fox News, now the most-watched television channel in the United States. In November 2023, the tycoon left the chairs of Fox Corporation, the parent company of the favorite channel of American conservatives, Fox News and News Corp, deciding to pass the baton to his son Lachlan. But thanks to his company News Corp, founded in 2013, he still owns hundreds of local, national and international media at the age of 93.
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Source: Le Figaro
