Rupert Murdoch, 93, married Russian Elena Zhukova, 67, at his Cali vineyard

Ever since Rupert Murdoch served Jerry Hall with divorce papers, he’s been moving in and out of relationships quickly. Less than a year after his fourth divorce (to Hall), Murdoch was engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, who definitely seemed like a grifter. That engagement ended in a matter of weeks, and Murdoch quickly picked up a new girlfriend – a Russian named Elena Zhukova, a spry 67 year old scientist. Murdoch is currently 93 years old. Well, Elena and Rupert spent last summer sailing around on his yacht, and a few months ago, they announced their engagement. Another wedding was quickly planned, Rupert’s fifth go-round. They married over the weekend at Rupert’s California estate/vineyard, Moraga. The bride wore Emilia Wickstead! The groom wore a suit & sneakers.

News legend Rupert Murdoch was all smiles yesterday as he married his beautiful bride. Mr Murdoch, 93, tied the knot with retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, after dating for several months.

The new Mrs Murdoch looked stunning in an elegant white dress clutching a small posy of Lily of the Valley flowers. Mr Murdoch wore a dark suit, white shirt and patterned yellow tie.

The happy couple beamed for the wedding photographer as they celebrated their big day with delighted relatives at a ceremony blessed with blue skies and warm sunshine at his vineyard in California.

Mr Murdoch, who has six children, is chairman emeritus of News Corporation, which owns The Sun, as well as American media giants such as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He stood down as chairman in November when his son Lachlan took over his responsibilities.

[From The Sun]

There are a lot of jokes about how this is an official Fox News-Russia merger and maybe it is. I don’t think Rupert needed to marry a Russian to “merge” with Russian propaganda though. He was already there, so was his media empire. Well, I thought Jerry would be his final wife but I was wrong. I hope Elena Zhukova has a happy and brief marriage.

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  1. bisynaptic says:

    For a man who has done so much damage to so many people, he sure can’t stand to be alone.

    • Flower says:

      I think he marries his partners so that they cannot testify against him.

      • Lau says:

        Or maybe he’s trying to scare his children about the inheritance.

      • bisynaptic says:

        LOL

      • Scorpio says:

        Maybe, I just think it’s a combo of can’t be alone and has to marry someone he has sex with, lol. I mean the short time frame between marriages/engagements is pretty interesting.

  2. Lucylee says:

    She is a highly compensated caregiver.

  3. Athena says:

    They look content

  4. SarahCS says:

    I’d forgotten about her and when I saw his name on a news story yesterday I thought he’d passed. It won’t change the untold damage he has done but I won’t be sad when he is no longer here.

  5. TikiChica says:

    I still would like to know what went wrong with Jerry Hall.

    • Unblinkered says:

      I read that – true or not – she was meant to have antagonised his children almost down the alienation route, apparently.
      I also read that a house that she got in the divorce settlement, possibly Oxfordshire can’t remember, had to be swept for listening devices by Mick Jagger’s IT people. Again, all allegedly and according to the UK press.
      So there was acrimony as it ended.
      Hard to know which of them is the tougher, but you have to be pleased for Jerry that she’s got a powerful friend in Jagger.

      • Lightpurple says:

        Jagger protects his kids

      • Nikki says:

        Jerry kept the geezer alive thru covid and no good deed goes unpunished. It pissed off a couple of the kids (specifically the evil one) because she limited in person visits to him during peak covid.

    • Flamingo says:

      I have read during the pandemic she kept him from the kids. She says for his protection. But his kids balked at the claims. And felt she was trying to isolate him for the nefarious reasons.

      Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. But Jerry was blindsided by the divorce for sure.

    • maya says:

      there’s an excellent vanity fair article about that! unblinkered mentioned the tidbit about security devices, it also mentions that he suspected she was the one telling stories about him to the succession writers room

  6. phaedra14 says:

    Whatever this union may mean, she sure is one GORGEOUS bride!!

  7. Bros says:

    These zhukova women have some significant marrying power.

  8. Flower says:

    So basically the women of this family are just professional billionaire hunters ….?

    Daughter Dasha previously married to Roman Abromovich and now married to Stavros Niarchos III.

    Elena herself was also previously married to an Oligarch.

  9. martha says:

    I gotta say this every time Rupert’s “vineyard” is mentioned:

    It’s not.

    It’s a Bel Air mansion with a small plot of grape-vines designed to lose money and declared for agricultural tax write-off.

  10. Nanea says:

    Mazál tov, I guess.

    Message to the Powers That Be, out there in the universe (not aimed at any CBers, mind you): there are exactly two things I’d like to read about Ol’Rupe – either that he’s been charged, because we all know that he knows *and* is guilty of everything – or that he’s dead, and people finally feel free to report everything they know about him.

    (OT, have been catching up with a few things on Byline Times over the weekend and have no idea why e.g. Rebekah Brooks was never found guilty, or any of the Murdochs, or all the others)

  11. MsIam says:

    Ick!

  12. TheBayTea says:

    She looks beautiful and he looks pretty spry for 93.

    I cannot stand the man, but I am glad that he never dates really young women. It’s the only decent thing I can say about him.

  13. Kathalea says:

    The old fox. Hilarious. The Trumpards are so quiet

  14. JFerber says:

    I deeply resent that he’s 93 and still alive. He’s already lived 30 more years than my husband who recently passed away and my husband was by far (astronomically so) the better man. Life (and death) suck.

  15. There’s Not enough Money or Alcohol in the World for me to marry that unethical worm!
    @jferber I feel your pain. My husband made it to 60, then died and was a good man.

  16. JFerber says:

    Fawzeya Chaalan, Thank you very much. I appreciate your empathy. I’m sorry for your loss, too.

  17. MyNameisLOL says:

    Other internet sources refer to Elena Zhukova as a renowned Jewish scientist, her parents are Jewish, so is her daughter and ex-son-in-law. She emigrated to the US in early 1990s.