Rupert Murdoch, 93, has married for the fifth time, his corporation, News Corp, confirmed Sunday.
Murdoch, the media mogul who recently stepped down as chairman of Fox News and News Corp, married Elena Zhukova, a 67-year-old Russian-born retired1 molecular2 biologist, on Saturday in a ceremony at his vineyard estate3 in Bel Air, California. Photographs of the newly married couple were released by News Corp. The couple announced their engagement in March.
Zhukova studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, according to a New York Times report in March. In her career as a molecular biologist, she focused on diabetes4. Zhukova is also the ex-wife of Alexander Zhukov, a billionaire energy investor5 and Russian politician. Their daughter, Dasha, was previously6 married to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who used to own the Premier7 League soccer club Chelsea.
Murdoch, whose net worth is pegged8 at $9.77 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has been married four times before. Most recently, he was engaged to retired dental hygienist Ann Lesley Smith, whom he never married. He was previously married to model Jerry Hall, whom he divorced in the summer of 2022.
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