- Rupert Murdoch announced he is engaged to 67-year-old Elena Zhukova
- The couple started dating over the summer after he called off his engagement to vineyard owner Ann Lesley Smith
- Murdoch has been married four times, engaged six times and has six children
“From headlines to heartbeats , Former Fox and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is once again making headlines, but this time in a new style as he embarks on a new journey at the age of 92. The news of Rupert Murdoch’s wedding bells has captured attention across all media channels.”
Invitations for the wedding have been sent out and the event is to be held in June at Murdoch’s California estate, Moraga, reported The New York Times.
The New York Times, which first reported the news, said Zhukova, who is from Moscow, is 67. She is a retired molecular biologist whom Murdoch began dating in the summer, it added.
Invitations for the wedding have been sent out and the event is to be held in June at Murdoch’s California estate, Moraga, reported The Newyork Times.
‘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 New York Post at the time of his previous engagement.
He has six children from his previous marriages: daughter Prudence MacLeod, now 66, with his first wife Patricia Booker, daughter Elisabeth, now 55, and sons Lachlan, now 52, and James, now 51, with his second wife Anna Mann, and daughter Grace, now 23, and Chloe, now 21, who he shares with Deng.
Murdoch and his fourth wife, former supermodel Hall, did not have any children together during their six-year marriage.
Hall and Murdoch tied the knot in London in March 2016 in a very low-key ceremony at Spencer House, which overlooks Green Park, after a whirlwind five-month romance.
The media tycoon was previously got engaged to Smith in March 2023, just six months after the pair first met – and less than a year after his divorce from fourth wife Jerry Hall was finalized.
Zhukova is a twice-divorced molecular biologist and specialist in diabetes. She has lived in America for over three decades after leaving Russia in 1991 with her daughter.
Before retiring she worked at the medical research unit in UCLA. Sources said she spends a lot of time with her grandchildren by Dasha and Roman.
Dasha, 42, divorced Abramovich in 2019 and her settlement included a four-story house in Manhattan. She is now married to Stavros Niarchos, the billionaire heir to the shipping dynasty.
Murdoch, who has been married four other times and has six children, announced that he was stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp. in September.
His eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, took over as chair of News Corp. and continued as executive chair and CEO of Fox News parent Fox Corp.