Following Rupert Murdoch’s brief and disastrous engagement to a one-time San Francisco socialite who reportedly favored pro-QAnon-style politics, the Fox News mogul decided to take the advice of someone close to him when choosing wife no. 5.
Murdoch, 93, let Wendi Deng, his third wife, play matchmaker and set him up with Elena Zhukova, 67, as the Daily Mail reported. Zhukova is a Russian-born retired molecular biologist at UCLA, but she is less known for her scientific accomplishments than for her ties to the jet-set, high-society world of her daughter, Dasha Zhukova, and her ex-son-in-law, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
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But Deng also reportedly played matchmaker for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner when she was married to Murdoch. She helped Donald Trump’s daughter get back together with Kushner after the couple briefly split in 2008 over religious differences, the New Yorker reported in 2016. Deng invited the future White House senior advisers to join her for a vacation on Murdoch’s yacht in an attempt to help them repair their broken relationship.
