Rupert Murdoch has married 67-year-old Elena Zhukov – his fifth wife – at the age of 93. His engagement to retired molecular biologist Zhukova was confirmed in March, and the wedding has now taken place at Moraga, Murdoch’s California estate and vineyard. In a ceremony attended by close friends and family – nine months after handing over the chairmanship of his media empire to his son, Lachlan – Murodch, who met Zhukova at a family gathering in 2023, wore a dark suit and patterned yellow tie.
Meanwhile, the bride wore a white dress and held a small bouquet of Lily of the Valley flowers. The wedding is Murdoch’s fifth marriage . His previous marriage was to supermodel – and Mick Jagger’s ex-wife – Jerry Hall from 2016 to 2022.
His first marriage, to flight attendant Patricia Booker, occurred in 1956, with the couple divorcing after 11 years of marriage in 1967. They share one child, daughter Prudence. Within the same year of divorcing Booker, Murdoch married his second wife, Scottish journalist Anna Maria Torv, with whom he has three children: Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James.
They divorced in 1999 after 32 years of marriage and, months later, Murdoch married Wendi Deng, with whom he shares two daughters, Grace and Chloe. The pair divorced in 2013. After he and supermodel Hall divorced in the summer of 2022, Murdoch had a short-lived engagement with retired dental hygienist Ann Lesley Smith in the spring of 2023 – but it ended after just two weeks.
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