Rupert Murdoch Is Now Dating a Russian Scientist, and I’m Dying to See How This One Ends
Murdoch met Elena Zhukova through his third wife and began dating her fourth months after calling off his fifth engagement (which only lasted two weeks).
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More than his tendency to ruin democracies, stoke the fake news flames, or still be alive, I am most dumbfounded by Rupert Murdoch’s thriving love life. The man is the living, breathing embodiment of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”… apart from the line that says “we’re young” and the line about being a nightmare dressed like a daydream. (He is not dressed like a daydream.)
The 92-year-old billionaire got divorced from his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, in June 2022 after six years of marriage. Then he met the conservative San Francisco police chaplain, 66-year-old Ann Lesley Smith, a month later. They started dating and were engaged by March. “I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last,” he told his own New York Post at the time. “It better be. I’m happy.” Well, that engagement lasted exactly two weeks before Murdoch broke it off because, according to Vanity Fair, he grew “increasingly uncomfortable with Smith’s outspoken evangelical views.” And now, the Daily Mail has reported (and published photos) that the Australian Pisces is dating Elena Zhukova, a 66-year-old retired Russian scientist whom he reportedly met through his third wife, Wendi Deng. The Guardian has “independently confirmed” this relationship. Incredible! All of it. Mostly the part about Murdoch still being alive enough to date.