Rupert Murdoch, 92, Gets Married For 5th Time To Biologist He Met Just Months Ago
Business magnate Rupert Murdoch is tying the knot again at age 92.
Shortly after Murdoch's previous engagement to Ann Lesley Smith was called off, the billionaire started dating anew and is now planning to get married again soon.
The media mogul is now engaged to molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, whom he met through his third wife, Wendi Deng, the Daily Mail reported. Zhukova's daughter, Dasha, and Deng are friends.
The pair reportedly started dating over the summer and were spotted on a family holiday cruise in the Mediterranean.
The two will reportedly be walking down the aisle at a summer wedding.
The News Corp chairman and CEO has been married four times and engaged five times. This is now his sixth engagement and soon-to-be fifth marriage.
He first tied the knot in 1956 when he married Patricia Booker, a former flight attendant from Adelaide who was a part-time department store model. They welcomed a child in 1958 and divorced in 1967, after 11 years as a married couple, People reported.
On the same year he divorced his first wife, Murdoch married Anna Maria Torv, a former journalist at Sydney Daily Mirror.
Their marriage lasted for 32 years before it ended in 1999. Murdoch and Torv share a daughter and two sons -- Elisabeth, 55, Lachlan, 52, and James, 51 -- who are all involved in their father's media business.
Two weeks after his divorce from Torv was finalized, Murdoch had a secret wedding ceremony with Chinese-born American entrepreneur, Deng.
In 2013, the pair divorced after 14 years of being married. They had two daughters together -- Grace, 23, and Chloe, 21.
Three years later, the media mogul tied the knot for the fourth time. In 2016, he married Jerry Hall twice -- in a civil ceremony at Spencer House, London, and a main wedding service at Fleet Street's St. Brides Church.
They spent six years together in marriage before they divorced in August 2022.
Now, Murdoch is soon to hold his fifth wedding. Specific details about the event have yet to be confirmed or announced.