Media mogul Rupert Murdoch got engaged for the sixth time at age 92, US media reported on Thursday.
The Australian billionaire who is a naturalized American will marry Elena Joukova, a retired molecular biologist of Russian origin, 25 years younger than him.
At 67, she is also the mother of Daria Zhukova, philanthropist and art collector, former wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
According to the New York Times, the couple began dating last summer and plan to get married in June at the billionaire’s California estate.
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Rupert Murdoch, who has six children, was first married from 1956 to 1967 to Patricia Booker, an Australian flight attendant, then for more than 30 years to a British journalist, Anna Torv.
He then married a businesswoman of Chinese origin and graduate of Yale University, Wendi Deng, until their divorce in New York in 2013.
Following his divorce from model Jerry Hall in the summer of 2022, the billionaire became engaged for the fifth time, to Ann Lesley Smith in the spring of 2023. They broke up less than a month later.
In November 2023, the tycoon left the chairs of Fox Corporation, parent company of the favorite channel of American conservatives Fox News, and News Corp, and decided to pass the baton to his son Lachlan.
