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Rupert Murdoch marries for the fifth time at the age of 93.

The media mogul married Elena Zhukova, a 67-year-old retired molecular biologist, at a wedding at Moraga, his vineyard and estate in California.

Ms Zhukova, from Moscow, wore a white dress, while Mr Murdoch wore a dark suit and a yellow patterned tie.

The couple met at a family gathering last year.

Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova.  Photo: News Corp.
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The former president of Fox and News Corp. canceled an engagement to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith last year.

Mr Murdoch He divorced his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, in August 2022.

He was previously married to businesswoman Wendi Deng, whom he divorced in 2014 after 14 years of marriage. They have two daughters together.

Murdoch separated from his second wife, Anna Murdoch Mann, a Scottish journalist with whom he had three children, in 1999.

He also had a daughter with his first wife Patricia Booker, who was a flight attendant. They divorced in 1966.

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Murdoch’s son Lachlan became News Corp’s sole chairman in September 2023, after Murdoch announced his resignation.

Murdoch owned Sky, which he founded, until 2018.



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