Rupert Murdoch, at 92, has decided to leave the reins of his media empire but not those of his heart. According to the New York Times, he officially announced his marriage to his fiancée, Elena Zhukova, 67, a retired molecular biologist, whom he began dating this summer. The wedding, planned for June, would be Murdoch's fifth marriage. After divorcing Jerry Hall, model and ex-wife of Mick Jagger, in the summer of 2022, he became engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a retired dental hygienist, in the spring of 2023. For two weeks. He then met Ms Zhukova through his third wife, Wendi Deng, the Daily Mail reported in August. Zhukova is an expert in diabetes pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles. According to what was reconstructed by the American newspaper, the biologist arrived in the United States from Moscow towards the end of the Soviet Union, with her ex-husband, Alexander Zhukov, who became a billionaire investor in the energy sector ( he now resides in London as a British citizen). His daughter, Dasha Zhukova, is a prominent philanthropist, businesswoman and art patron who, until 2017, was married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. The wedding invitations have already been sent out. The event will take place at Murdoch's California Vineyard and Estate, Moraga.
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