Rupert Murdoch is getting ready to wed for the fifth time – 68 years after he first received married.
The 92-year-old media mogul – who turns 93 on 11 March – is set to marry retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, at his California winery.
The engagement comes simply months after the previous Fox Corp chairman and Sky Information founder referred to as off his earlier engagement, and two years after his most up-to-date divorce.
From his first bride within the ’50s to the marriage he referred to as off and his newest fiancée, these are the ladies Mr Murdoch has married and been engaged to by the years…
Patricia Booker
Murdoch and Patricia Booker in 1991. Pic: Judie Burstein/Globe Photographs/Shutterstock
Mr Murdoch’s first marriage was to Australian flight attendant Patricia Booker.
The pair married in 1956 and welcomed a daughter, Prudence, two years later. They divorced in 1967.
Whereas Mr Murdoch’s household life and youngsters are infamously stated to have impressed the hit collection Succession, Prudence has stayed out of the limelight and away from her father’s companies.
Anna Mann
Rupert and Anna on the Oscars in 1998. Pic: AP Photograph/Kevork Djansezian
Mr Murdoch’s longest marriage was to Scottish journalist Anna Mann, born Anna Torv, who he was married to from 1967 to 1999.
Ms Mann, from Glasgow, was working in Australia for a Murdoch-owned newspaper when she met the mogul. That they had three kids collectively; Elisabeth, born in 1968, Lachlan, born in 1971 and James, born in 1972.
Throughout their marriage, Ms Mann narrowly escaped a kidnap try when in 1969, two brothers killed the spouse of Mr Murdoch’s Information Restricted deputy – who they’d mistaken for her.
Wendi Deng
Rupert Murdoch and spouse Wendi Deng tied the knot on his yacht in New York in 1999. Pic: Reuters
Mr Murdoch married his third spouse, Wendi Deng, in 1999 – lower than three weeks after his earlier divorce was finalised.
Ms Deng was working at a Murdoch-owned firm in Hong Kong after they met at a celebration in 1997.
The China-born Deng went on to have an “huge affect” on Mr Murdoch’s life,” based on his biographer, and gave her husband a picture overhaul within the early noughties.
Whereas she by no means held an official place at Information Corp, she’s thought of to have influenced its dealings in Asia.
Throughout a July 2011 parliamentary listening to on cellphone hacking, she leapt into the highlight when she jumped in entrance of her husband to guard him from a protester throwing a cream pie.
Ms Deng and Mr Murdoch had two daughters collectively – Grace, born in 2001, and Chloe, born in 2003 – earlier than divorcing in 2013.
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Ms Deng leapt into motion when a protester focused her then husband. Pic: Reuters
Jerry Corridor
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Corridor at their London marriage ceremony on 5 March 2016. Pic: Reuters/Peter Nicholls
The media mogul married Jerry Corridor in a church on London’s Fleet Road in 2016, simply 4 months after they first met.
Mr Murdoch, then 84, tweeted that he felt “just like the luckiest AND happiest man on this planet” after the ceremony, however sadly it wasn’t to final.
The pair break up six years on, and it later emerged that Mr Murdoch allegedly ended the wedding through e mail.
Texas-born Ms Corridor discovered fame as a mannequin within the Nineteen Seventies and was featured on quite a few Vogue covers. She grew to become a muse for artists together with Lucian Freud and later moved into appearing.
Ms Corridor had a 22-year relationship with Mick Jagger, frontman of The Rolling Stones, which resulted in 1999. That they had 4 kids collectively.
Ann Lesley Smith
Mr Murdoch’s newest engagement is his second in as a few years.
In March 2023, he introduced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain, and stated: “I dreaded falling in love – however I knew this is able to be my final. It higher be. I am completely happy.”
The pair by no means made it up the aisle although as their break up was reported simply two weeks later.
Elena Zhukova
Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova. Pics: Reuters and Rex/David X Prutting/BFA/Shutterstock
Ms Zhukova, Mr Murdoch’s newest fiancée, was launched to him by his third spouse, Wendi Deng.
The biologist has been described as “very well-connected” by society journal Tatler and her daughter, Dasha Zhukova, was married to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich till 2017. She is now wed to billionaire Greek delivery inheritor Stavros Niarchos III.
