Fox Information founder Rupert Murdoch is engaged to Elena Zhukova, greater than 20 years his junior, marking the mogul’s sixth fiancée.
This summer season, she is going to develop into his fifth spouse in the event that they make it down the aisle. The ex-chairman of Fox Information and Information Corp, 92, is ready to say “I do” in June to the 67-year-old former molecular biologist, The New York Occasions studies.
The billionaire and Zhukova, initially from Moscow, started relationship final summer season after reportedly assembly by his third spouse, Wendi Deng. Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in 2013, after 14 years of marriage and two daughters collectively.
Murdoch and Zhukova began relationship shortly after he referred to as off his two-week engagement to Ann Lesley Smith final yr.
The engagement information comes simply months after Murdoch introduced in September that he would step down from his function as Fox Information and Information Corp chair, with eldest son Lachlan changing him at each firms.
This isn’t the primary billionaire to whom Zhukova has been engaged, who was beforehand married to vitality investor Alexander Zhukov. They share a daughter, Dasha Zhukova, 42, who was previously married to Russian oligarch and billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Murdoch’s first journey to the altar was in 1956 when he wed fellow Australian Patricia Brooker. Murdoch and the flight attendant, who additionally labored as a part-time division retailer mannequin, welcomed daughter Prudence two years later earlier than divorcing in 1967.
Later that yr, he moved on with Scottish native Anna Maria Torv, to whom he was married for 32 years. By way of Torv, Murdoch fathered Elisabeth, 55; Lachlan, 52; and James, 51.
Murdoch was 68 when he and then-30-year-old Deng, who’s Chinese language, secretly exchanged vows aboard his yacht in New York Harbour in 1999.
Following their 2013 divorce, Murdoch married Jerry Corridor married in 2016. Corridor, 67, was with Mick Jagger for over twenty years — 9 years of which had been spent unofficially married.