Media mogul Rupert Murdoch tied the knot Saturday for the fifth time, according to British tabloid newspaper the Sun. The Sun, which is owned by Murdoch, released photos of the 93-year-old Australian billionaire alongside his 67-year-old wife, retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova, at his vineyard in Bel-Air, California, the United States, where the ceremony took place. Zhukova studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, according to a New York Times report in March. In her career as a molecular biologist, she focused on diabetes. She is the ex-wife of Alexander Zhukov, a billionaire energy investor and Russian politician. Their daughter, Dasha, was previously married to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who used to own the Premier League soccer club Chelsea. Murdoch reportedly started dating Zhukova last summer after he met her through his third wife, Wendi Deng. Murdoch sat for decades at the helm of Fox Corporation and News Corp, two media companies with outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News. Murdoch, who has a net worth of US$9.77 billion according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, announced he would step down in November 2023 as chairman of both organizations, handing the reins over to his son Lachlan and transitioning to the role of chairman emeritus. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” he wrote in a letter to employees in September. “But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole chairman of both companies.” He began dating Zhukova last summer, according to The New York Times. The couple announced their engagement in March. In March 2023, Murdoch proposed to retired dental hygienist Ann Lesley Smith but the engagement was called off two weeks later. He was previously married to model Jerry Hall from 2016 to 2022. He first tied the knot in 1956 to Patricia Booker, but they divorced 11 years later in 1967. They share one child. He later married his second wife, Anna Maria Torv, in 1967, and they had three children together. The pair split in 1999 after 32 years of marriage. Murdoch and Deng, his third wife, got married in 1999, but they divorced in 2013. They also share two children together. In 1952, Murdoch inherited a newspaper in his native Australia from his father. Over decades, he built a news and entertainment enterprise that became prominent in the United States and Britain, including ownership of such notable newspapers as The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. (SD-Agencies) Words to Learn 相關詞匯 【結婚】jiéhūn tie the knot get married 【名譽】míngyù emeritus having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honor 據(jù)英國小報《太陽報》報道，傳媒大亨魯珀特?默多克周六第五次喜結連理。 默多克旗下的《太陽報》公布了這位93歲的澳大利亞億萬富翁在自家葡萄莊園舉行婚禮的照片。莊園位于美國加利福尼亞州貝萊爾，67歲的新娘是退休分子生物學家埃琳娜?朱科娃。 據(jù)《紐約時報》今年3 月的報道，朱科娃曾就讀于加州大學洛杉磯分校。作為一名分子生物學家，她的職業(yè)生涯主要研究糖尿病。她是億萬富翁、能源領域投資人兼俄羅斯政治家亞歷山大?茹科夫的前妻。他們的女兒達莎曾嫁給俄羅斯億萬富翁羅曼?阿布拉莫維奇，后者一度是英超切爾西球隊老板。 據(jù)報道，去年夏天，默多克通過第三任妻子鄧文迪認識了朱科娃，并開始與她約會。 默多克執(zhí)掌福克斯公司和新聞集團長達數(shù)十年，這兩家媒體公司旗下的媒體包括《華爾街日報》、《紐約郵報》和福克斯新聞。 根據(jù)彭博社億萬富翁指數(shù)，默多克的凈資產(chǎn)為97.7億美元。此前默多克宣布2023年11 月卸任這兩家公司的董事長，交班給兒子拉克蘭，并轉任名譽董事長。 他去年9月份給員工寫信道：“在整個職業(yè)生涯中，我每天都與新聞和思想打交道，這一點不會改變。但現(xiàn)在是我轉換角色的時候了，因為我們擁有才華橫溢的團隊，以及拉克蘭這位充滿激情、堅持原則的新領袖，他將成為兩家公司的董事長。” 據(jù)《紐約時報》報道，默多克去年夏天開始與朱科娃約會，今年3月兩人宣布訂婚。 2023年3月，默多克曾向退休牙醫(yī)安?萊斯利?史密斯求婚，但兩周后取消了婚約。2016年至2022年間默多克與模特杰瑞?霍爾保持婚姻關系。 1956年，他和第一任妻子帕特里夏?布克結婚， 于11年后的1967年離婚，兩人生育了一個孩子。同年，默多克與與第二任妻子安娜?瑪麗亞?托芙結婚，兩人育有三個孩子，兩人在結婚32年后于1999年分手。默多克與第三任妻子鄧文迪1999年結婚，育有兩個女兒，于2013年離婚。1952 年，默多克從父親那里繼承了家鄉(xiāng)澳大利亞的一家報社，其后幾十年里，他創(chuàng)立了一個新聞和娛樂帝國，在美國和英國聲名鵲起，擁有包括《倫敦泰晤士報》和《華爾街日報》等著名媒體。(Translated by Debra) | 