Pupert Murdoch: Murdoch and Zhukova met shortly after Murdoch ended his engagement to Leslie Smith in April 2023.
The news of media giant Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage was in the headlines in recent days.
Rupert Murdoch, 93, married his 67-year-old fiancee, Elena Zhukova, on Saturday, June 1, at his private vineyard in California.
Murdoch and Zhukova announced their engagement in March 2024. Daily Mail wrote at that time that the couple’s relationship started last summer.
Pupert Murdoch, Forbes estimates Murdoch’s wealth to be around $19.9 billion. After his father’s death in 1952, when he was only 22, he inherited a newspaper in Adelaide, Australia, and over the years expanded his media empire; From the owner of a small newspaper in Australia, he became a media giant and the owner of publications such as Sun, Times, Sunday Times, New York Post, Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
According to Forbes Middle East, Murdoch was 88 years old in 2019 when he sold most of Fox, FX and National Geographic and his stake in Star of India to Disney for $71.3 billion.
Pupert Murdoch Fifth Marriage
Pupert Murdoch, Murdoch was also the chairman and CEO of News Corp. He announced his retirement in September 2023 and announced that he would also step down from the chairmanship of Fox Corporation. At the same time, the two companies announced in a joint statement that Lachlan Murdoch would replace his father as the chairman of the two companies.
Murdoch has been married five times and engaged six times and has six children. Lachlan is Rupert Murdoch’s eldest child from his second marriage.
Pupert Murdoch, Murdoch and Zhukova met shortly after Murdoch ended his engagement to Lesley Smith in April 2023. He had ended his fourth marriage to a supermodel less than a year earlier. Elena Zhukova has also been married twice before. He, who is a biologist specializing in diabetes, went to America from Russia with his daughter in 1991 and has lived in America for the last three decades.
Elena is the mother of Dasha Zhukova, famous for her marriage to a Russian oligarch. Dasha used to be the wife of Chelsea owner. He was friends with Murdoch’s third wife, Wendy Deng, in New York, and the Daily Mail reports that Dasha’s mother and Murdoch appear to have met that way.
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