Rupert Murdoch, 92, announces engagement to girlfriend Elena Zhukova, 67, and reveals plans to marry in June
- Rupert Murdoch introduced he’s engaged to 67-year-old Elena Zhukova
- The couple began relationship over the summer season after he known as off his engagement to winery proprietor Ann Lesley Smith
- Murdoch has been married 4 different instances, engaged six instances and has six kids
Rupert Murdoch, aged 92, has introduced he’s engaged to retired scientist Elena Zhukova, 67, after assembly her by his third spouse Wendi Deng.
The Fox patriarch began relationship Zhukova over the summer season after his earlier engagement to former police chaplain and winery proprietor Ann Lesley Smith was known as off simply two weeks after it was introduced.
DailyMail.com revealed the couple began relationship in August when the 2 had been noticed cruising the Mediterranean on a household summer season vacation.
She is the mom of Dasha Zhukova, a Russian socialite who is known for her marriage to Russian oligarch and former Chelsea FC proprietor Roman Abramovich.
Dasha and Murdoch’s third spouse Wendi Deng are nice pals in New York and it appears that evidently that is the connection. ‘They met by Wendi and Dasha’, stated a supply.
Invitations for the marriage have been despatched out and the occasion is to be held in June at Murdoch’s California property, Moraga, reported The New York Times.
Zhukova is a twice-divorced molecular biologist and specialist in diabetes. She has lived in America for over three a long time after leaving Russia in 1991 together with her daughter.
Before retiring she labored on the medical analysis unit in UCLA. Sources stated she spends quite a lot of time together with her grandchildren by Dasha and Roman.
Dasha, 42, divorced Abramovich in 2019 and her settlement included a four-story home in Manhattan. She is now married to Stavros Niarchos, the billionaire inheritor to the delivery dynasty.
Murdoch, who has been married 4 different instances and has six kids, introduced that he was stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp in September.
His eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, took over as chair of News Corp and continued as govt chair and CEO of Fox News guardian Fox Corp.
The media tycoon was beforehand bought engaged to Smith in March 2023, simply six months after the pair first met – and lower than a 12 months after his divorce from fourth spouse Jerry Hall was finalized.
‘I used to be very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — however I knew this could be my final. It higher be. I’m blissful,’ he advised The New York Post on the time of his earlier engagement.
He has six kids from his earlier marriages: daughter Prudence MacLeod, now 66, together with his first spouse Patricia Booker, daughter Elisabeth, now 55, and sons Lachlan, now 52, and James, now 51, together with his second spouse Anna Mann, and daughter Grace, now 23, and Chloe, now 21, who he shares together with his third spouse Wendi Deng.
Murdoch and his fourth spouse, former supermodel Hall, didn’t have any kids collectively throughout their six-year marriage.
The pair tied the knot in London in March 2016 in a really low-key ceremony at Spencer House, which overlooks Green Park, after a whirlwind five-month romance.
Murdoch married his first spouse, former flight attendant Patricia, in 1956, nevertheless the pair break up in 1967, 9 years after the delivery of their solely youngster, Prudence.
That similar 12 months, he tied the knot together with his second spouse, Anna, a Glasgow-born journalist to whom he was married for 32 years, earlier than their divorce in 1999.
As a part of their divorce settlement, Anna was awarded $1.7 billion, together with $10 million in money, in accordance to CNBC.
Murdoch went on to marry Wendi simply 17 days after he divorced second spouse Anna. At the time of their wedding ceremony Murdoch was 68, whereas Wendi was simply 30 years previous.
That marriage lasted 14 years, earlier than it was introduced that the pair had been divorcing, with a News Corp spokesperson revealing in June 2013 that their union had been ‘irretrievably damaged for greater than six months.’
