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.
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.
Rupert Murdoch, chairman emeritus of News Corp, marries Elena Zhukova at his California vineyard. Murdoch, 93, and Zhukova, 67, met last year. The marriage is Murdoch’s fifth. Zhukova is Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's former mother-in-law.https://t.co/3Gz5EpPKFt pic.twitter.com/UhHH9vrL4l
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) June 2, 2024
It’s official! Fox News and Russian merger https://t.co/0mQDQCpTX4
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) June 2, 2024
Rupert Murdoch married Elena Zhukova yesterday at his Bel Air vineyardhttps://t.co/ddtLnb8ojd pic.twitter.com/qPrZ9hGEHR
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 2, 2024
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- Los Angeles, CA – **FILE PHOTOS** Rupert Murdoch, 93, and new wife Elena Zhukova, 62, tie the knot at his $22million Moraga Estate winery in Bel-Air, marking this the media titan’s fifth wedding. **SHOT ON 08/11/2023** Pictured: Rupert Murdoch, Elena Zhukova BACKGRID USA 3 JUNE 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – **FILE PHOTOS** Rupert Murdoch, 93, and new wife Elena Zhukova, 62, tie the knot at his $22million Moraga Estate winery in Bel-Air, marking this the media titan’s fifth wedding. **SHOT ON 08/11/2023** Pictured: Rupert Murdoch, Elena Zhukova BACKGRID USA 3 JUNE 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
For a man who has done so much damage to so many people, he sure can’t stand to be alone.
I think he marries his partners so that they cannot testify against him.
Or maybe he’s trying to scare his children about the inheritance.
LOL
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.
She is a highly compensated caregiver.
Just the thought of her having to perform her wifely duties for him makes my skin crawl.
I would hide the blue pills if I was her.
It’s akin to necrophilism. Oh well this hospice wife I guess is counting on him leaving this earth sooner than later with a big payday.
All she has to do is run out the clock.
They look content
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.
As Twain said, I don’t wish death on anyone but there are some obituaries I won’t mind reading.
Yes, very much this.
I still would like to know what went wrong with Jerry Hall.
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.
Jagger protects his kids
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.
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.
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
Whatever this union may mean, she sure is one GORGEOUS bride!!
These zhukova women have some significant marrying power.
Isn’t it just – I mean it’s as if they only entertain BILLIONAIRES.
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.
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.
🤮
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)
Ick!
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.
The old fox. Hilarious. The Trumpards are so quiet
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.
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.
Fawzeya Chaalan, Thank you very much. I appreciate your empathy. I’m sorry for your loss, too.
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.