Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries for the fifth time, bride is a molecular biologist
Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is a married man for the fifth time. The 93-year-old billionaire married molecular biologist Elena Zhukova at his California vineyard and estate, Moraga, on Saturday, June 1, several reports stated. Murdoch resigned aschairman ofFox News’ parent company and his News Corp media holdings last year.
Zhukova, 67, wore a form-fitting, mid-length white Emilia Wickstead dress with a square neckline for the ceremony while her groom Murdoch kept it simple in a black suit, a white button-down shirt and a pale yellow tie.
Photographs of the newlyweds posing at their estate is now making rounds of the internet. In one of the images, Murdoch and Zhukova posed with their arms wrapped around each other. In another, they sat on a set of chairs while outdoors.
The guest list and venue
The Daily Mail reported that several "high-powered" people were in attendance at the event, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and News Corp chief executive Robert Thompson.
The secluded property is reportedly located in the Santa Monica Mountains in the Bel Air neighbourhood.
Earlier in March this year, Murdoch and Zhukova were engaged and planning to wed after they began dating the previous summer. The pair met through Murdoch's third wife, Wendi Deng.
Before meeting Zhukova, the Australian native was engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, who formerly worked in radio, TV and print media.
Murdoch and Smith called off their engagement just two weeks after the billionaire announced they were set to wed in his newspaper.
Prior to Smith, Murdoch was married to model Jerry Hall from March 2016 to July 2022.
The media mogul married his third wife Deng just two weeks after he finalised his divorce from his second wife, Anna Maria Torv, in 1999. They have two daughters — Grace (born in 2001) and Chloe (born in 2003) — and divorced in 2013 after 14 years of marriage.
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Murdoch and Anna Torv were married for 32 years after their marriage in 1967. The exes have three children: daughter Elisabeth, son Lachlan and son James.
Murdoch welcomed his first child, a daughter named Prudence, in 1958 with his first wife, Patricia Booker. The couple were married from 1956 to 1967.
