Is it just me or does Rupert Murdoch have way too much romantic drama for a 92 year old man? Granted, I hear that the senior dating scene is a hotbed of intrigue, sexcapades and melodrama, but Murdoch swims in the rarefied world of billionaires and moguls. You would think that he would play his cards a bit tighter to the chest. Earlier this year, Rupert proposed to his 66-year-old girlfriend Ann Lesley Smith, after he basically dumped Jerry Hall (his fourth wife) to be with Ann. Turns out, Ann Lesley was and is a total wingnut, so much so that she scared off Murdoch and he ended the engagement after a few weeks. We haven’t gotten an update on his love life in several months. Then, this week, the Daily Mail broke the story: he’s dating a Russian scientist who is well-connected to Putin’s Russian oligarchs. OMG.
Tycoon Rupert Murdoch, aged 92, has started dating a beautiful retired scientist – after meeting her through his third wife Wendi Deng. The two are cruising the Mediterranean in the legendary superyacht Christina O which he has rented and are today on the coast of Corfu.
Murdoch suffered disappointment and drama this spring when his engagement to former police chaplain and vineyard owner Ann Lesley Smith was called off just two weeks after it was announced…
But, undeterred, the media mogul is now in the ‘early stages’ of a romance with Elena Zhukova, 66. She is the mother of Dasha Zhukova, the beautiful Russian socialite who is famous for her marriage to Russian oligarch and former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich. Dasha and Murdoch’s third wife Wendi Deng are great friends in New York and it seems that this is the connection. ‘They met through Wendi and Dasha’, says a source.
Ms 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 say 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-storey house in Manhattan. She is now married to Stavros Niarchos, the billionaire heir to the shipping dynasty. Murdoch and Ms Zhukova senior are apparently cruising the Med on a family summer holiday. Murdoch was spotted in Positano last month, lunching at the Da Adolfo restaurant. Reports suggest that his son Lachlan and wife Sarah joined him, sailing their new $150 million yacht Sarissa.
The Mail goes on to point out that many of Rupert’s children have joined him on the Christina O, including his two daughters by Wendi Deng. But not James Murdoch, who is seemingly on the outs with his father. James is the one who is newly friendly with Prince Harry too. As for Elena Zhukova… well, I don’t think this is going to end well, but I’m curious to see what happens next. If she’s lived in America for decades, she probably isn’t rolling deep with oligarchs, but you never know. Tatler says that Elena was married to Alexander Zhukov, who is definitely one of Putin’s oligarchs. Elena and Alexander split when their daughter Dasha was just three years old. All of the Russian money in Europe… I mean, eventually Murdoch was going to get honey-trapped by a Russian woman.
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I don’t think Murdoch’s new Russian girlfriend is his only tie to Russia.
Fox News has a tendency to echo Russian government talking points.
He may run, but he can’t hide from the inevitable.
Damn I saw Rupert Murdoch and got my hopes up that his time had come. Should have known better… evil lives forever.
LOLOLOLOL
I mean, who wouldn’t want to be with that gorgeous hunk of Aussie manhood?
It’s a good thing he’s such a Putin suck-up, or he might end up falling off a balcony of his yacht.
it makes sense this old fart is dating within his billonaire circle. It’s a quasi incestuous circle, but they know how to play the game and how to keep their mouth shut to the outsiders. Wendi Deng apparently hooked those two up, so…You don’t need to live in Russia to have connections in it either. The new gf has married and divorced two Russian billionaires. her first husband was that Roman Abramovic. Those nationalistic folks talk how great and superior their home country is, but still live prefer to live in the freedom western countries provide.
okay correction, Elena’s daughter was married to Roman Abramovich.
They keep their enemies very close in that circle.
Knowing what we know about the triangle between the Republican Party, Fox news and Russian interference with US elections, very likely that Murdoch and his new gf ( and her circle) are keeping each other’s dirty secrets.
Gross. Not just him, but both of them and anyone who’s on board with Murdoch’s priorities and business methods
Her daughter is married to Paris Hilton.s ex.
Wendi Deng is probably a double agent. Her affair with Tony Blair was notorious.
ORCAS, DO YOUR THING!
Great ghost of Maxwell….reach out to your old rival.
Ghillane can be your siren!
Ha! Same!
I feel like Wendi Deng — who was rumored to date Putin after divorcing Murdoch — is in Putin’s pocket and gets paid to “matchmake” certain people with certain others. Ivanka Trump broke up with Jared Kushner and it was Wendi Deng who stage-managed their reconciliation (invited them to a party on a yacht, talked to both of them, encouraged them to rekindle the “flame” etc.). And it was Wendi Deng who intro’d Murdoch to this woman, Roman Abramovich’s ex-MIL. I feel like this is Putin honeypotting certain people who occupy positions that he wants access to with his agents or people he is certain can be turned.
Came here to say essentially the same thing. She’s dated Putin, Tony Blair and married Murdoch, that’s an extraordinary group of people. Being super involved with the Trumps isn’t surprising. It just shows how gross and feudal it gets in those circles.
It does sound like this new lady is extremely smart, I’m willing to bet Murdoch bores her and/or he can’t handle her intellect.
Murdoch disgusts me for so many reasons. This is just another one. Murdoch is a one-man wrecking ball to democracies. He should be listed as an agent of Russia or China for de-stabilizing so many democracies around the world. He is complicit and all he cares about is his own money. I suppose he’s in perfect health, though?
Spot on, jferber! putin’s [sic] invasion of Ukraine opened my eyes to some of the things that go on with powerful people, and there’s so much more we don’t have a clue about. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Murdoch’s connection with putin is much deeper than previously thought.
Ehh, Murdoch tried to get on with the Chinese government, but didn’t work. China has probably the most effective propaganda/censorship system in the world, they don’t really need Murdoch to spew racist, harmful messages when they’re plenty capable of it by themselves and even better at it. Wendi Deng has an in and she has led Murdouch business launches, but that hasn’t led to a better in with China. Plus Deng is considered too western, and i don’t think she’s member of the communist party there and you kind of need that in order to get in the highest inner circle there.
Here’s hoping the fallout brings them all down.