Editing Rupert Murdoch (section)

=== Marriages ===
[[File:Rupert Murdoch Wendi Murdoch 2011 Shankbone.JPG|thumb|Murdoch with his third wife, [[Wendi Deng Murdoch|Wendi]], in 2011]]
In 1956, Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a former shop assistant and flight attendant from Melbourne; the couple had their only child, [[Prudence Murdoch|Prudence]], in 1958.<ref name="Examiner">{{cite web | url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-20160545.html | title = How safe is the Murdoch empire? | date = 9 July 2011 | work = The Irish Examiner | access-date = 19 July 2011 | archive-date = 27 August 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130827040338/http://www.examiner.ie/business/business-features/how-safe-is-the-murdoch-empire-160545.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Wherenow" /> They divorced in 1967.<ref name="GuardianWives">{{cite news |date=23 June 2022 |first=Nadeem |last=Badshah |title=The merry wives of Rupert Murdoch: who has the tycoon been wed to before? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/22/the-merry-wives-of-rupert-murdoch-marriage-to-jerry-hall-is-reportedly-over |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

In 1967, Murdoch married [[Anna Murdoch Mann|Anna Torv]],<ref name="Examiner" /> a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper ''[[The Daily Mirror (Sydney)|The Daily Mirror]]''.<ref name="GuardianWives" /> In January 1998, three months before the announcement of his separation from Anna, a Roman Catholic, Murdoch was made a [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great]] (KSG), a papal honour awarded by [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-03-me-4508-story.html|title=Pope Honors Rupert Murdoch, Roy Disney, Bob Hope|work=Los Angeles Times|date=3 January 1998 |access-date=4 March 2016|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204213/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/03/local/me-4508|url-status=live}}</ref> While Murdoch would often attend Mass with Torv, he never converted to Catholicism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coleridge |first1=Nicholas |title=Paper tigers: the latest, greatest newspaper tycoons and how they won the world |date=1993 |publisher=Heinemann |location=London |isbn=978-0434140596 |page=487 |quote=Asked if there is any truth to recent press describing his newfound piety, Murdoch replies: 'No. They say I'm a born again Christian and a Catholic convert and so on. I'm certainly a practising Christian, I go to church quite a bit but not every Sunday and I tend to go to Catholic church—because my wife is Catholic, I have not formally converted. And I get increasingly disenchanted with the C of E or Episcopalians as they call themselves here. But no, I'm not intensely religious as I'm sometimes described.' Interviewed in 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2012/07/18/the-dirty-diggers-religious-odyssey/ |title=The Dirty Digger's religious odyssey |work=[[Catholic Herald]] |date=18 July 2012 |access-date=21 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106023830/http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2012/07/18/the-dirty-diggers-religious-odyssey/ |archive-date=6 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Torv and Murdoch had three children: [[Elisabeth Murdoch (businesswoman)|Elisabeth Murdoch]] (born in Sydney, Australia on 22 August 1968), [[Lachlan Murdoch]] (born in London, UK on 8 September 1971), and [[James Murdoch]], (born in London on 13 December 1972).<ref name="Examiner" /><ref name="Wherenow" /> Murdoch's companies published two novels by his wife: ''Family Business'' (1988) and ''Coming to Terms'' (1991). They divorced in June 1999. Anna Murdoch received a settlement of US$1.2&nbsp;billion in assets.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14302/index6.html |title= The Boy Who Wouldn't Be King |work= New York Magazine |date= 19 September 2005 |access-date= 25 April 2010 |archive-date= 29 June 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090629142240/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14302/index6.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

On 25 June 1999, 17 days after divorcing his second wife, Murdoch, then aged 68, married Chinese-born [[Wendi Deng Murdoch|Wendi Deng]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-30-fi-murdoch30-story.html | title = Murdoch's Heir Apparent Abruptly Resigns His Post | date = 30 July 2005 | work = Los Angeles Times | first = Sallie | last = Hofmeister | access-date = 20 February 2020 | archive-date = 28 December 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171228185223/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/30/business/fi-murdoch30 | url-status = live }}</ref> She was 30, a recent [[Yale]] School of Management graduate, and a newly appointed vice-president of his [[Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific|STAR TV]]. Murdoch had two daughters with her: Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Murdoch has six children, and is grandfather to thirteen grandchildren.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grandparents.com/food-and-leisure/celebrity/most-powerful-grandparents|title=The Most Powerful Grandparents in the U.S.|work=grandparents.com|access-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307024413/http://www.grandparents.com/food-and-leisure/celebrity/most-powerful-grandparents|archive-date=7 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Near the end of his marriage to Wendi, hearsay concerning a link with Chinese intelligence (which was later proven to be unfounded) became problematic to their relationship.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=An Aussie MP says the Chinese government are... |url=https://time.com/3142282/china-chinese-government-bastards-clive-palmer-australia/ |magazine=Time |language=en |access-date=16 March 2019 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331060515/http://time.com/3142282/china-chinese-government-bastards-clive-palmer-australia/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=John |title='It Was Like a War Zone': A Former Nanny for Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Speaks Out |url=https://gawker.com/5926705/it-was-like-a-war-zone-a-former-nanny-for-rupert-murdoch-and-wendi-deng-speaks-out |work=Gawker |language=en |access-date=18 May 2019 |archive-date=12 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012140254/https://gawker.com/5926705/it-was-like-a-war-zone-a-former-nanny-for-rupert-murdoch-and-wendi-deng-speaks-out |url-status=live }}</ref> On 13 June 2013, a News Corporation spokesperson confirmed that Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng in New York City, US.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22895642 |title=Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from Wendi Deng |work=BBC News |date=13 June 2013 |access-date=27 June 2013 |archive-date=21 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621004953/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/22895642 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife Wendi Deng|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10119215/Rupert-Murdoch-files-for-divorce-from-wife-Wendi-Deng.html|access-date=14 June 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=13 June 2013|first=Jon|last=Swaine|archive-date=14 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614120059/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10119215/Rupert-Murdoch-files-for-divorce-from-wife-Wendi-Deng.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the spokesman, the marriage had been irretrievably broken for more than six months.<ref>{{cite news|title=News Corp's Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife Wendi|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newscorp-murdoch-idUSBRE95C0X220130614|access-date=14 June 2013|newspaper=Reuters|date=13 June 2013|first=Liana B.|last=Baker|archive-date=14 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614073726/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-newscorp-murdoch-idUSBRE95C0X220130614|url-status=live}}</ref> Murdoch also ended his long-standing friendship with [[Tony Blair]] after suspecting him of having an affair with Deng while they were still married.<ref>[https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636603-celebrated-abroad-and-reviled-home-former-prime-minister-struggles-fulfil Life after power: The loneliness of Tony Blair] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808114359/https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636603-celebrated-abroad-and-reviled-home-former-prime-minister-struggles-fulfil |date=8 August 2017 }}, economist.com.</ref>

[[File:Jerry Hall headshot.jpg|thumb|Jerry Hall, Murdoch's fourth wife, whom he married in March 2016, photographed in 2009]]
On 11 January 2016, Murdoch announced his engagement to former model [[Jerry Hall]] in a notice in ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper.<ref name=hallengagement>{{cite news|title=Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall announce engagement|url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/rupert-murdoch-and-jerry-hall-announce-engagement-20160112-gm40nm.html|access-date=12 January 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=12 January 2016|archive-date=13 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113170605/http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/rupert-murdoch-and-jerry-hall-announce-engagement-20160112-gm40nm.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On 4 March 2016, Murdoch, a week short of his 85th birthday, and 59-year-old Hall were married in London, at [[St Bride's, Fleet Street]] with a reception at [[Spencer House, London|Spencer House]]; this was Murdoch's fourth marriage.<ref name="AFP">{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/rupert-murdoch-marries-jerry-hall-london-135358442.html|title=Rupert Murdoch marries Jerry Hall in London|date=4 March 2016|publisher=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]]|access-date=4 March 2016|location=London|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305122155/http://news.yahoo.com/rupert-murdoch-marries-jerry-hall-london-135358442.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2022, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Murdoch and Hall were set to divorce, citing two anonymous sources.<ref>{{cite news |date=23 June 2022 |first=Martin |last=Pengelly |title=Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall set to divorce – report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/22/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-divorce-report |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=22 June 2022 |first1=Sarah |last1=Ellison |first2=Elahe |last2=Izadi |title=Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall to divorce after six years |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/22/jerry-hall-rupert-murdoch-divorce/ |access-date=23 June 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Hall filed for divorce on 1 July 2022 citing irreconcilable differences;<ref>{{cite news|last=Bryant|first=Miranda|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/02/jerry-hall-files-for-divorce-from-rupert-murdoch|title=Jerry Hall files for divorce from Rupert Murdoch in US court|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 July 2022|access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref> the divorce was finalised in August 2022.<ref>{{cite news|last=Saad|first=Nardine|date=11 August 2022|title=Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall finalize divorce but 'remain good friends'|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-08-11/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-finalize-divorce|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref>

During [[Saint Patrick's Day]] celebrations in 2023,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Warrington |first=James |date=20 March 2023 |title=Rupert Murdoch, 92, engaged to Ann Lesley Smith following fourth divorce |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/20/rupert-murdoch-92-engaged-ann-lesley-smith-following-fourth/ |access-date=20 March 2023 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Helmore |first=Edward |date=20 March 2023 |title=Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time at 92: 'I knew this would be my last' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/20/rupert-murdoch-engagement-ann-lesley-smith |access-date=20 March 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Murdoch, who is quarter Irish, proposed to his partner, [[Ann Lesley Smith]]. The engaged couple first met at an event in September 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rupert Murdoch engaged to be married for fifth time |url=https://www.ft.com/content/2b0fd33d-6a0a-447d-a4f7-3457e327a5ca |website=Financial Times|first=Christopher|last=Grimes|date=20 March 2023|access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref> In April 2023, two weeks after the couple were engaged, Murdoch suddenly called off the engagement. The split was said to be caused by Murdoch's discomfort with Smith's religious views and her infatuation with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, reportedly referring to him as "a messenger from God".<ref>{{cite web |title=Rupert Murdoch reportedly calls off engagement after two weeks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/04/rupert-murdoch-calls-off-engagement-ann-lesley-smith |website=The Guardian|first=Gloria|last=Oladipo|date=4 April 2023|access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2023 |title=How Tucker Carlson Inspired Rupert Murdoch To End Engagement |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-rupert-murdoch-engagment_n_6436f2cfe4b0ed74f2a0198a |access-date=8 June 2023 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref> Carlson was [[Tucker Carlson#Departure from Fox News|fired from Fox News]] three weeks later.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ellison |first1=Sarah |last2=Barr |first2=Jeremy |date=3 May 2023 |title=For the Murdochs, Tucker Carlson became more trouble than he was worth |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/26/tucker-carlson-rupert-murdoch-fired/ |access-date=8 June 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Murdoch became engaged again in March 2024, to retired [[Russia]]n [[molecular biologist]] Elena Zhukova, who is also the ex-wife of Russian businessman [[Alexander Zhukov (businessman)|Alexander Zhukov]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rupert Murdoch engaged again at 92, according to reports |url=https://news.sky.com/story/rupert-murdoch-engaged-again-at-92-according-to-reports-13088111 |date=7 March 2024 |access-date=7 March 2024 |website=Sky News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The life of Rupert Murdoch's new girlfriend Elena Zhukova — a scientist who used to be mother-in-law to oligarch Roman Abramovich| url=https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-elena-zhukova-rupert-murdochs-new-russian-girlfriend-2023-8|date=17 August 2023|access-date=2 June 2024 |website=Business Insider |language=en}}</ref>  Their wedding was held in June 2024 at Murdoch's estate in California.<ref name="Yang">{{Cite news |last=Yang |first=Maya |date=2 June 2024 |title=Rightwing media mogul Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/02/rupert-murdoch-marries-elena-zhukova |access-date=2 June 2014 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Murdoch was 93 and Zhukova 67 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-02 |title=Rupert Murdoch ties the knot for the 5th time in ceremony at his California vineyard |url=https://apnews.com/article/rupert-murdoch-elena-zhukova-wedding-7523f6c2d2fafdca7356e35196983cda |access-date=2024-09-20 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> Through the marriage he became stepfather to [[Dasha Zhukova]], ex-wife of [[Roman Abramovich]].