Rupert Murdoch

[the_engineer 1,415]

Filing for divorce. Might (hopefully) send him over the edge. KERCHING WENDY........Story from the Hollywood gossip site reads...

 

 

New Corp chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from wife Wendi Deng Murdoch this morning in New York State Supreme Court, Deadline learned at 9 AM. The divorce will not impact Rupert Murdoch’s mega-media holdings, according to insiders, and was deliberately announced for maximum transparency before New Corp spins off its publishing assets into a separately traded company by June 28th. (Murdoch will control both of these entities.) Today’s news comes despite numerous denials for months by PR man Steven Rubenstein and News Corp PR woman Julie Henderson to me as recently as April and May. (“We get this phone call once every 3-6 months,” Rubenstein and Henderson said at the time, pointing to the fact that Wendi and Rupert had recently hosted a dinner at their home for Oscar-winning Twentieth Century Fox director Ang Lee and were going away together on Spring Break.) But legal sources insisted to Deadline that the Murdochs’ divorce was being planned and, for the first time, not even Murdoch’s reps were denying yet another rift between Rupert and Wendi. In fact, his reps then admitted to me there had been marriage trouble but stressed ”it feels like its past whatever that was.” Today I’m told by insiders that, at that time, there were still no divorce proceedings underway so the denials were issued in good faith. “The divorce happened very quickly,” an insider tells me today.

The couple met in 1997, at a company party in Hong Kong. They married in 1999, less than a month after his divorce from ex-wife Anna Maria Torv Murdoch was finalized. Wendi is perhaps most fondly remembered for standing up for her husband and clocking Jonathan May-Bowles after he threw a pie at her husband during highly publicized testimony before a British parliamentary committee in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal.

Rupert and Wendi were married on his yacht in New York Harbor in June 1999. As part of the divorce from Anna, Rupert agreed that his existing children would inherit control of News Corp via the family trust. Wendi wanted that changed after giving birth to their two daughters, Grace and Chloe. But Rupert punted and actually startled Wendi by disclosing in a 2006 TV interview with Charlie Rose that the girls would not have voting rights in his family trust. He said they’d have an equal economic stake, but the decision-making would be left to his other children: Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan and James. “The fight that happened between Rupert and Wendi, after the program aired, is News Corp legend,” author Michael Wolff said in his book The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World Of Rupert Murdoch.

Since then, news reports noted that Wendi “has emerged with her own independent career and has immersed herself in a social circle that includes David Geffen, Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Nicole Kidman and Bono, one that is often free of her husband’s presence.” With the wife of former MGM exec Harry Sloan, Wendi co-produced the 2011 film Snow Flower And The Secret Fan, which was released by Fox Searchlight. (It generated $11.3M in global ticket sales, including $1.3M from domestic theaters.)

The marriage is Rupert’s third, and Wendi’s second. The Wall Street Journal disclosed in a controversial front page article in 2000, before Murdoch bought it, that she met her first husband in 1988 when she moved to Los Angeles to learn English. She lived with Jake and Joyce Cherry, and broke up their marriage by having an affair with Jake. She married him in 1990, but they divorced after two years and seven months. “That was seven months longer than what was required for Deng to obtain a green card, allowing her permanently to live and work in the U.S. as a resident alien,” the paper noted. “Cherry says he and Deng actually lived together for ‘four to five months, at the most.’”

 

She probably had a couple of toyboy's on the side and he found out. Sorry but she wouldn't of married him if he was poor and he had to have known that when getting into the relationship.

[themaninblack 2,112]

I reckon he'll get hitched to some bird from Brazil or India. You know, somewhere where the money is...

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

That Guido Fawkes bloke on Twitter now mentioning that Blair has denied having an affair with Wendi - poor Lupert. The only trouble with shagging her is that half an hour later you fancy some more.

[charon 4,943]

 

 

 

Quite a strange denial from Blair's spokesperson: 'if you are asking if they are having an affair, the answer is no'.

 

 

Why wouldn't he just say 'he categorically has never had an affair with her'.

 

 

I reckon it's true and obviously desperately hope it is.

 

[themaninblack 2,112]

If this is true then Blair is a genius. Of all the people he could have an affair with and thus risk exposure, having one with the wife of the most powerful man in the media and thus making him look a cuckolded gimp to the rest of the World is incredibly shrewd. Mrs Murdoch has to be wary of speeding police vans however...

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

Plus the bitch fight betwixt Cherie and Wendi would earn squliions on pay per view

[JR976evil 906]

Plus the bitch fight betwixt Cherie and Wendi would earn squliions on pay per view

 

Think you have Murdoch confused with Vince McMahon

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Brooks cleared but Coulson goes down.

 

Where does this leave Murdoch?

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Brooks cleared but Coulson goes down.

 

Where does this leave Murdoch?

 

How the fuck is Brooks innocent? If she was so incompetent as to be unaware of what was going on she wasn't fit to be editor, if she was fit to be editor she had to know. Rant over! The verdict is down to the dearth of compelling evidence, right? Does anyone reading this forum genuinely think her innocent?

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Brooks cleared but Coulson goes down.

 

Where does this leave Murdoch?

 

How the fuck is Brooks innocent? If she was so incompetent as to be unaware of what was going on she wasn't fit to be editor, if she was fit to be editor she had to know. Rant over! The verdict is down to the dearth of compelling evidence, right? Does anyone reading this forum genuinely think her innocent?

 

Maybe noone in the jury fancied being turned into a newt.

 

My opinion all along was that she was in it up to her neck.

 

But there again I'm not text buddies with David Cameron.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Brooks cleared but Coulson goes down.

 

Where does this leave Murdoch?

 

How the fuck is Brooks innocent? If she was so incompetent as to be unaware of what was going on she wasn't fit to be editor, if she was fit to be editor she had to know. Rant over! The verdict is down to the dearth of compelling evidence, right? Does anyone reading this forum genuinely think her innocent?

 

Maybe noone in the jury fancied being turned into a newt.

 

My opinion all along was that she was in it up to her neck.

 

But there again I'm not text buddies with David Cameron.

 

Oh aye, her mate David, all very much like a political thriller starring a bunch of hardened television talent with impressive CVs. Can't help thinking there'll be more in this in The Guardian and Mirror than in The Sun tomorrow.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

This is wrong and horrible, how can you let her go free. I'd rather let him out and send her to jail. In fact I'd give him freedom of the city of London and a knighthood just to see that daft bint spend a couple of months in jail with a bunch of big butch lezzers.

[Toast 16,144]

[Guest Guest]

Just in from the beac..work. How many years did Rebekah Brooks get that's all I want to know!

[themaninblack 2,112]

She'll get clobbered I reckon. A year or two down the line when the dust settles...

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

She'll get clobbered I reckon. A year or two down the line when the dust settles...

 

Er.... clobbered in what way? And by who...? Are you talking about that bloke from Eastenders?

 

Anyway..... about Murdoch himself. In my opinion, he has been looking really shit the last couple of years. I think there's a strong possibility of him popping off this year or next. There seems to be a lot of bollocks where people think just because someone's a billionaire that means they are guaranteed to live to 101 or something. I think if people would look again at recent pics of him, with fresh eyes, he should be a lot more popular pick on the DDP.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

She'll get clobbered I reckon. A year or two down the line when the dust settles...

 

Er.... clobbered in what way? And by who...? Are you talking about that bloke from Eastenders?

 

Anyway..... about Murdoch himself. In my opinion, he has been looking really shit the last couple of years. I think there's a strong possibility of him popping off this year or next. There seems to be a lot of bollocks where people think just because someone's a billionaire that means they are guaranteed to live to 101 or something. I think if people would look again at recent pics of him, with fresh eyes, he should be a lot more popular pick on the DDP.

 

His mother died aged 103, and remained pretty active past 100.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

His mother died aged 103, and remained pretty active past 100.

 

Yeah I know. Did she live that long whilst running an international business empire and enduring a stressful long-running criminal investigation of it...?

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

His mother died aged 103, and remained pretty active past 100.

 

Yeah I know. Did she live that long whilst running an international business empire and enduring a stressful long-running criminal investigation of it...?

 

No but she did survive despite having Rupert for a son.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

His mother died aged 103, and remained pretty active past 100.

 

Yeah I know. Did she live that long whilst running an international business empire and enduring a stressful long-running criminal investigation of it...?

 

No but she did survive despite having Rupert for a son.

 

And being a ceaseless campaigner on a load of - make the world better - issues. She shared her son's love of consistent hard work, but generally had higher morals. Like Rupert she set a fairly high value on physical fitness (he's generally in the gym most days).

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Yeah well he needs to start doing whatever exercise helps your face stop looking like a massive overstewed prune or something. Cos he's really starting to have that look.

 

(Oh wait there isn't one for that)

 

Oh and I know I have no evidence for it but I reckon all he does "fitness"-wise is walk. I'd be amazed if he actually jogs or runs. Maybe a really light bit of swimming.

 

 

That's his fitness instructor on the left. Come on, I think we all know the only reason why she's there.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Yeah well he needs to start doing whatever exercise helps your face stop looking like a massive overstewed prune or something. Cos he's really starting to have that look.

 

(Oh wait there isn't one for that)

 

Oh and I know I have no evidence for it but I reckon all he does "fitness"-wise is walk. I'd be amazed if he actually jogs or runs. Maybe a really light bit of swimming.

 

 

That's his fitness instructor on the left. Come on, I think we all know the only reason why she's there.

 

Good exercise.

[Razor Boy 19]

All that money and he has to carry his own water ?

 

No hang on this is a photo shoot not reality.

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

All that money and he has to carry his own water ?

 

No hang on this is a photo shoot not reality.

 

That might be his drip.

[Spade_Cooley 9,536]

iirc throughout the 60s and 70s, during his UK invasion, Murdoch was renowned for his ability to get by with fuck all sleep (something like 20 hours a week total during the launch of The Sun/attempted kidnap and murder of his wife). The exercise is something that was apparently forced on him by Wendi Deng, when she wasn't bouncing around on Tony Blair's cock.