Who is Rupert Murdoch’s new fiancée, Elena Zhukova? The billionaire media mogul is engaged for the sixth time … to a Russian former biologist who he met through his third wife, Wendi Deng
- The ex-media boss is about to wed Elena Zhukova, whose daughter Dasha was married to Roman Abramovich – the former couple amassed a US$1 billion art collection of Monet, Picasso and more
- Last year, Murdoch was set to marry former police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith but called the engagement off soon after; he met his current fiancée through Wendi Deng, his third wife
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch is set to marry his girlfriend Elena Zhukova in June. This will be Murdoch’s fifth wedding and sixth engagement, with the media mogul making headlines last year after abruptly calling off his engagement to former police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith just weeks after announcing their intention to wed.
So who is the woman – a quarter of a century his junior at age 67 to his 92 – who has captured his heart?
Elena Zhukova was married to Alexander Zhukova
Elena was married to Alexander Zhukova for three years around the early 1980s. According to the New Yorker, the couple met when they were students in Moscow. Elena and Alexander got married, had their daughter Dasha, and then split.
After the relaxing of policies governing private enterprises in the then Soviet Union, Alexander formed an energy-trading company, becoming a well-known billionaire energy investor. Alexander now lives in London as a British citizen and, also per the New Yorker, has an impressive London property portfolio and a villa in Sardinia.
When talking about her own family, Elena told the publication vaguely that they belonged to the “usual, normal Moscow intelligentsia”.