Rupert Murdoch is proving that age is only a quantity in relation to beginning a brand new chapter in life.
The 92-year-old media mogul is about to marry girlfriend Elena Zhukova, 67, in June this yr, in accordance with The New York Occasions and Reuters.
Murdoch’s workplace, on Thursday, advised the NYT that Murdoch began relationship Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist in the summertime. The 2 met at a household gathering hosted by Murdoch’s third spouse Wendi Deng, with whom is on good phrases with, in accordance with The Guardian.
Invites for Murdoch and Zhukova’s upcoming nuptials, set to happen at Murdoch’s California winery and property, Moraga, have already been despatched out, a rep for Murdoch advised the NYT.
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Who’s Rupert Murdoch’s fiancé?
Murdoch’s fiancé, Zhukova is retired molecular biologist, who studied diabetes, together with on the College of California, Los Angeles, as per the NYT.
Zhukova was beforehand married to Alexander Zhukov, a billionaire vitality investor, who got here to the USA from Moscow in direction of the tip of the Soviet Union. He’s now a British citizen and resides in London, reviews NYT. Zhukova additionally hails from Russia, as per BBC Information.
In the meantime, her daughter Darya Zhukova was married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich till 2017.
That is Murdoch’s sixth engagement. Murdoch was beforehand married to supermodel Jerry Corridor, with whom he parted methods in the summertime of 2022. In Spring 2023, he was engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a retired dental hygienist. Nonetheless, that engagement abruptly ended two weeks later and only a few months later, Murdoch was seeing Zhukova, reviews The Guardian.
In September of 2023, Murdoch had stepped down from his roles as chair of Fox Company and govt chairman of Information Corp, handing over the reins of his firm to son Lachlan Murdoch.