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MEDIA TYCOON RUPERT Murdoch has become engaged for the sixth time.
The 92-year-old is set to marry Elena Zhukova, 67, in June, according to the New York Times, with invitations sent out.
Murdoch is believed to have been dating the retired Russian molecular biologist for several months.
The Australian-born media mogul, who stood down as chairman of Fox and News Corp last year, has been married four times.
He was also engaged to former police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith but the engagement was called off just two weeks after being announced in April 2023.
Murdoch married his first wife, former flight attendant Patricia Booker, in 1956 and the couple had one daughter, Prudence.
After their divorce 11 years later, his second marriage to Anna Torv, a trainee journalist he met while she was working on one of his Australian titles, lasted more than 30 years.
At various times, each of their three adult children – Elisabeth, Lachlan and James – appeared to have been in line to inherit his mantle.
Murdoch had two further children – daughters Grace and Chloe – with his third wife Wendi Deng, who he married in 1999, just three weeks after he divorced Anna.
In 2016, Murdoch surprised the world by marrying former model Jerry Hall – an ex-partner of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger with whom she had four children. The marriage lasted six years before they too divorced.
Murdoch’s media empire, which started in Australia in the 1950s, included buying the News Of The World and The Sun in 1969, the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and TV channel Fox News, which was launched in 1996.
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Ah Mr burns, will you ever learn.
@Paddy Ryan:
@Conor Byrne: haha. Love it.
At 92 let me wish him & his fiancé many weeks of happiness.
Surprised she’s not younger to be honest
This guy must be a right sap when it comes to women. Would ya be bothered
New season of Succession?!
shes def with him for the looks and his seriously good bedroom action I am completely sure….not the whole filthy rich and praying he pops his clogs soon. Although theres so much greed, corruption and poison in this lad, he makes Monty Burns from the simpsons look like Mary Poppins
Only engaged 6 times at 82…. He hasn’t lived
Automatically think of Caroline Ahernes famous interview with Debbie McGee when I read stuff like this
@denis silver: Ditto! “And what was it that first attracted you to multi-millionaire Paul Daniels?”
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: was he successful when they met?
@Clare Power: Yep. He had a primetime BBC TV show. She was his assistant.
Another sleazy older rich (((man)))
He should marry his only true love… himself
I’ll give it 8 yrs, max.
@Brian Murphy: that brings him to the century mark and herself to three quarters of it.
Short term work with profitable interest.
It’s the Power of love
@Patrick Presley: a force from above!
What a catch!
Drain the swamp of all the natural inhabitants and let the Great Orange Baracuda have his reign of terror
67? Where’s he going marrying an auld wan like that?
Ah stop… he’s not well in the head
His marriages were NOt ENDURABLE. He’ll have to STRIVE harder with this lady.
Ah fair play to him, we’re all only jealous.
She says its not his money, it’s his good looks and charm that swept her off feet
@K H: she should go to specsavers.
A vile legacy of bigotry and propaganda Is all there is to this yoke
That is surely the victory of optimism over experience
A pig.
Got to love the irony of announcing this on International Women’s Day……
@John Moylan: The rest of us weren’t exactly queuing up to spend time with him, I can assure you.
Good luck to her!
Married the MONEY and asked him to the Wedding ….
Rupie once again puts his money where his mouth should b
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