Rupert Murdoch is engaged to Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist, with plans for a wedding.
A source confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that the 92-year-old media mogul plans to marry Zhukova, 62, on June 1 in a ceremony on his California vineyard and estate, Moraga.
Murdoch reportedly started dating Zhukova in the summer after he met her through his third wife, Wendi Deng. Zhukova is said to be a retired molecular biologist who was studying diabetes, including at the University of California, Los Angeles. The New York Times first reported the new engagement.
The news comes nearly a year after Murdoch announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, a retired dental hygienist, in the spring of 2023. But he broke it off a few weeks later.
The upcoming June nuptials would make it Murdoch’s fifth marriage. He was previously married to model Jerry Hall from 2016 to 2022.
He first tied...
A source confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that the 92-year-old media mogul plans to marry Zhukova, 62, on June 1 in a ceremony on his California vineyard and estate, Moraga.
Murdoch reportedly started dating Zhukova in the summer after he met her through his third wife, Wendi Deng. Zhukova is said to be a retired molecular biologist who was studying diabetes, including at the University of California, Los Angeles. The New York Times first reported the new engagement.
The news comes nearly a year after Murdoch announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, a retired dental hygienist, in the spring of 2023. But he broke it off a few weeks later.
The upcoming June nuptials would make it Murdoch’s fifth marriage. He was previously married to model Jerry Hall from 2016 to 2022.
He first tied...
- 3/7/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A man convicted in the notorious 1969 kidnapping and murder of Muriel McKay, the wife of Rupert Murdoch deputy Alick McKay, has offered to reveal the location of the victim’s body in exchange for a lifting of a deportation order that bars him from entering the UK.
According to a Sky News report, Nizamodeen Hosein, now 75 and living in his native Trinidad, has offered to help McKay’s daughter Dianne, 82, locate her mother’s body, believed to be buried at the Hertfordshire farm formerly owned by Hosein and his brother Arthur Hosein. Both men were convicted of the crime in 1970 and sentenced to life in prison, where Arthur Hosein died in 2009.
Nizamodeen Hosein was deported to Trinidad after serving 20 years in prison. Muriel McKay’s body has never been located. After decades of silence, Hosein, according to Sky, now claims she collapsed and died of a heart attack while being held at the farm.
According to a Sky News report, Nizamodeen Hosein, now 75 and living in his native Trinidad, has offered to help McKay’s daughter Dianne, 82, locate her mother’s body, believed to be buried at the Hertfordshire farm formerly owned by Hosein and his brother Arthur Hosein. Both men were convicted of the crime in 1970 and sentenced to life in prison, where Arthur Hosein died in 2009.
Nizamodeen Hosein was deported to Trinidad after serving 20 years in prison. Muriel McKay’s body has never been located. After decades of silence, Hosein, according to Sky, now claims she collapsed and died of a heart attack while being held at the farm.
- 11/16/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco, Aug 16 (Ians) At 92, Australia-born American media mogul Rupert Murdoch is reportedly dating Elena Zhukova, a 66-year-old retired scientist, the media reported,
According to Daily Mail, citing sources, Murdoch started dating Zhukova after meeting her through his third wife Wendi Deng.
The billionaire was spotted with Zhukova boarding a rented superyacht named ‘Christina O’ in the Mediterranean last weekend. The luxury yacht is said to have been spotted off the coast of Corfu, Greece.
Murdoch’s third wife is friends with Zhukova’s daughter Dasha Zhukova, who was married to Russian oligarch and former owner of Chelsea Fc, Roman Abramovich.
According to the report, Zhukova is a molecular biologist and specialist in diabetes. She was divorced twice and has lived in the US for over three decades after leaving Russia in 1991 with her daughter.
Before retiring, she worked at the medical research unit in the University of California, Los...
According to Daily Mail, citing sources, Murdoch started dating Zhukova after meeting her through his third wife Wendi Deng.
The billionaire was spotted with Zhukova boarding a rented superyacht named ‘Christina O’ in the Mediterranean last weekend. The luxury yacht is said to have been spotted off the coast of Corfu, Greece.
Murdoch’s third wife is friends with Zhukova’s daughter Dasha Zhukova, who was married to Russian oligarch and former owner of Chelsea Fc, Roman Abramovich.
According to the report, Zhukova is a molecular biologist and specialist in diabetes. She was divorced twice and has lived in the US for over three decades after leaving Russia in 1991 with her daughter.
Before retiring, she worked at the medical research unit in the University of California, Los...
- 8/16/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Rupert Murdoch is single once more. A source close to the 92-year-old News Corp businessman and Ann Lesley Smith confirmed to Et that their engagement is off.
The news comes just weeks after the New York Post reported that Murdoch popped the question to the 66-year-old former San Francisco police chaplain, whom he planned to marry in late summer 2023.
“I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy,” he told the outlet at the time. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together.”
“I’m a widow of 14 years,” Smith added. “Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Worked for local papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Univision. So I speak Rupert’s language. We share the same beliefs.”
Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, last summer.
The news comes just weeks after the New York Post reported that Murdoch popped the question to the 66-year-old former San Francisco police chaplain, whom he planned to marry in late summer 2023.
“I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy,” he told the outlet at the time. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together.”
“I’m a widow of 14 years,” Smith added. “Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Worked for local papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Univision. So I speak Rupert’s language. We share the same beliefs.”
Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, last summer.
- 4/5/2023
- by Becca Longmire
- ET Canada
New York, March 20 (Ians) Less than a year after divorcing model-actress Jerry Hall, the 92-year-old Australian American media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, is hearing wedding bells again. He’s engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old San Francisco police chaplain, reports ‘Variety’.
Quoting gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who broke the story in the ‘New York Post’, ‘Variety’ says Murdoch’s future wife was married to Chester Smith, a country-western singer, as well as a radio and TV executive who died in 2008.
Adams reports that the two bonded over their shared knowledge of the media business as well as the fact that she once owned a vineyard and he still does.
If they tie the knot, according to ‘Variety’, it will be Murdoch’s fifth marriage. Jerry Hall, a model and actress, was married to Murdoch for six years. In addition to Hall, Murdoch was previously married to Wendi Deng from 1999 to...
Quoting gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who broke the story in the ‘New York Post’, ‘Variety’ says Murdoch’s future wife was married to Chester Smith, a country-western singer, as well as a radio and TV executive who died in 2008.
Adams reports that the two bonded over their shared knowledge of the media business as well as the fact that she once owned a vineyard and he still does.
If they tie the knot, according to ‘Variety’, it will be Murdoch’s fifth marriage. Jerry Hall, a model and actress, was married to Murdoch for six years. In addition to Hall, Murdoch was previously married to Wendi Deng from 1999 to...
- 3/20/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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- 12/22/2021
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
An interview with John Lennon’s murderer and the UK’s first kidnapping case are being explored in new films unveiled by Sky for its recently-launched Sky Documentaries channel.
The programs were unveiled as Sky UK and Ireland managing director of content Zai Bennett said the Comcast-owned broadcaster is focusing on building its brands by getting in early with creators to help it in the “arms race” of content, particularly in drama.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Sky’s director of factual Poppy Dixon said Let Me Take You Down is an investigation into the killing of Lennon in 1980 by Mark David Chapman, which she hopes will air at the end of this year to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Lennon’s death.
Made by Zig Zag Productions, the program features an exclusive interview with Chapman about what drove him to commit the crime and is fronted by journalist Jack Jones,...
The programs were unveiled as Sky UK and Ireland managing director of content Zai Bennett said the Comcast-owned broadcaster is focusing on building its brands by getting in early with creators to help it in the “arms race” of content, particularly in drama.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Sky’s director of factual Poppy Dixon said Let Me Take You Down is an investigation into the killing of Lennon in 1980 by Mark David Chapman, which she hopes will air at the end of this year to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Lennon’s death.
Made by Zig Zag Productions, the program features an exclusive interview with Chapman about what drove him to commit the crime and is fronted by journalist Jack Jones,...
- 8/24/2020
- by Tara Conlan
- Deadline Film + TV
News Corp. said Friday that James Murdoch, the son of founder Rupert Murdoch, is resigning from its board of directors due to unspecified differences over editorial content. It’s the latest in periodic bouts of drama in the media dynasty. Youngest and liberal-leaning son James has had issues with editorial content before in the broader business of the family — a loose model for the one on hit HBO drama Succession — that also controls Fox News.
James and his wife, Kathryn each gave $615,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in June.
The board seat is James’ last formal role inside the company. News Corp. is the newspaper publishing arm of the Murdoch empire and parent of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and tabloids and newspaper in Britain and Australia. James’ older brother Lachlan Murdoch is co-chairman of News Corp., with his father, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp.
James and his wife, Kathryn each gave $615,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in June.
The board seat is James’ last formal role inside the company. News Corp. is the newspaper publishing arm of the Murdoch empire and parent of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and tabloids and newspaper in Britain and Australia. James’ older brother Lachlan Murdoch is co-chairman of News Corp., with his father, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp.
- 7/31/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Divorce is nothing new for the thrice married, soon to be single again Rupert Murdoch. If history is any guide, the News Corp. chairman will steer clear of drama while negotiating the terms of his pending split from Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife of 14 years and the mother of their two young daughters, Grace and Chloe. At least that's what attorney Daniel Jaffe thinks -- and he's the guy represented Anna Murdoch in her 1999 divorce from the media mogul. "Rupert handled it like a business negotiation," Jaffe told TheWrap. "He's a...
- 6/13/2013
- by Brent Lang & Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Unlike what could be a very lucrative upcoming split of News Corp. into two companies, company founder Rupert Murdoch’s announced split from third wife Wendi Deng ought to cost the media mogul plenty of money. Exactly how much is yet to be determined. Murdoch is worth $11.2 billion and is No. 91 on the Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world, and he reportedly has a prenuptial agreement with Deng, who became Murdoch’s third wife in 1999 after he divorced Anna Maria Torv. Murdoch’s prenuptial agreement with Deng remains a secret so far, but a peek into his
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- 6/13/2013
- by Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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