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Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries for 5th time, tying knot with Elena Zhukova in ceremony at his California vineyard
- Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova were married at Murdoch’s vineyard estate in Bel Air, California
- Murdoch was briefly engaged last year to Ann Lesley Smith, following his divorce from Jerry Hall
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Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time at age 93, tying the knot with a retired molecular biologist a quarter century younger than him.
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Murdoch and Elena Zhukova, a 67-year-old Russian-born retired molecular biologist, married on Saturday in a ceremony at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California. Photographs of the newly married couple were released by Murdoch’s News Corp.
Photographs published in The Sun, the British tabloid owned by Murdoch, show the couple posing and smiling – he in a black suit and yellow tie and she in an off-the-shoulder white gown as she clutched a bouquet of lilies of the valley.
The couple announced their engagement in March.
Zhukova 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 English Premier League football club Chelsea.
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Jet-set guests at the nuptials included Robert Kraft, 82, the owner of the New England Patriots US football team, and his 50-year-old wife Dana Blumberg, news reports said.
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