Rupert Murdoch has become engaged — for the sixth time.
The media mogul — who turns 93 next week — has revealed he is engaged to retired 67-year-old molecular biologist Elena Zhukova.
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He met Zhukova through his third wife, Wendi Deng, to whom he was married from 1999 to 2013.
He began dating Zhukova in August last year after his previous engagement, to former police chaplain and vineyard owner Ann Lesley Smith, was called off only two weeks after it was announced.
Murdoch’s new fiancée is the mother of Dasha Zhukova, a Russian socialite who was once married to former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and who is now married to Greek shipping dynasty heir Stavros Niarchos.
The Zhukova family left Russia in the early 1990s and has been based in the US ever since.
Invitations to the wedding, to be held in June at Murdoch’s California estate, have already been sent out, according to the New York Times.
Zhukova, who is twice divorced, worked at the medical research unit at UCLA, specialising in diabetes research.
Murdoch has been married four times — to Patricia Booker (1956-1967), Anna Murdoch Mann (1967-1999), Wendi Deng (1999-2013) and, most recently, to former model Jerry Hall (2016-2022).
He has had six children with three of his four wives, his youngest child being Chloe, 21, his second daughter with Wendi Deng.
Last year, the media tycoon handed control of his multi-billion dollar empire to his eldest son, Lachlan.
Now it seems Murdoch has no plans to spend his retirement years alone.
When Murdoch revealed a year ago that he was engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, he told The New York Post he was nervous about the idea.
“I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last,” he said.
“It better be. I’m happy.”
But less than a month later, he called it off, with Vanity Fair reporting that Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable with Smith’s outspoken evangelical views”.
It was also revealed Smith had been embroiled in a legal dispute with her late husband’s three daughters, who claimed she had withheld the $1 million he had left to each of them in his will.
Four months later, in August 2023, Deng reportedly introduced her ex-husband to Zhukova at a family gathering.
Soon afterwards, Murdoch and Zhukova were yachting around the Mediterranean together.
Their proposed wedding comes two years after Murdoch and Jerry Hall divorced.
When he wed Hall, who was Rolling Stone Mick Jagger’s partner for 22 years, Murdoch said he was smitten.
“I’m the luckiest and happiest man in the world,” he said.
