What is the saying? All good things come in fives. Entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch also seems to believe this: The 93-year-old, whose media empire includes Fox News, married his fiancée, who is 26 years younger than him.
After four failed marriages, media mogul Rupert Murdoch has remarried at the age of 93. Murdoch and his 67-year-old partner Elena Zhukova tied the knot on Saturday at the entrepreneur’s winery in the US state of California, according to The Sun newspaper, published by Murdoch’s media group NGN. The tabloid published a photo of the wedding couple. The newspaper belongs to the News Corporation, once headed by Murdoch, the media empire that also includes titles such as the conservative Wall Street Journal and the right-wing TV channel Fox News. News Corporation also published photos of the wedding.
Zhukova, who previously worked as a molecular biologist, immigrated to the United States from Russia. Her daughter Dasha, an art patron and entrepreneur, was formerly married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Rupert Murdoch – one of the most powerful media moguls in the world
Murdoch, who was born in Australia and has been a US citizen since 1985, is one of the most powerful media entrepreneurs in the world. His holdings include the conservative news channel Fox News and the newspaper “Wall Street Journal” in the USA, and the tabloid “Sun” and the newspaper “The Times” in Great Britain. The US magazine “Forbes” estimates the value of Murdoch’s media empire at around 20 billion dollars (18.3 billion euros).
Murdoch has repeatedly made headlines with his changeable private life. Murdoch most recently had plans for a fifth wedding in March 2023. At the time, according to media reports, he proposed to Ann Lesley Smith, now 67, the widow of country singer Chester Smith. But two weeks later, he abruptly ended the relationship, the New York Times wrote at the time.
Murdoch’s first wife was Australian stewardess Patricia Booker in 1956. The marriage broke up in 1967. Murdoch was then married to newspaper reporter Anna Torv for more than 30 years. The two divorced in 1999. Murdoch’s third marriage to Wendi Deng ended in 2013. In March 2016, he finally married ex-model Jerry Hall, the former partner of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
Source: Stern
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