Billionaire Rupert Murdoch is engaged to be married for the sixth time at the age of 92, with his fiance 25 years his junior.
The media mogul’s office announced he is set to marry Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist, who is 67.
If the wedding goes ahead, it will be his fifth wedding, five months after stepping down from his role at his New Corp media empire.
Reports of Murdoch dating Zhukova first emerged last April, a matter of months after he ended his two-week engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, 67, a conservative radio host.
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Murdoch’s wedding will be held at Moraga, his California vineyard and estate and invitations have already been sent out, The Times reports. Murdoch has been married four times previously.
The couple met through a large family gathering hosted by his third ex-wife, Wendy Deng. Murdoch and Den were married for 14 years before filing for divorce in 2013.
Zhukova’s daughter, 42, is a Russian-American art collector and philanthropist who was previously married to Roman Abramovich, former owner of British Premier League football club Chelsea and a Russian oligarch.
Last year, Murdoch announced he was stepping down from his huge media empire, which he built after his father gave him his first newspaper.
The mogul’s publicly traded company, based in New York, owns hundreds of national, international, and local news outlets. This includes the Wall Street Journal, Sky News Australia, Fox News, and book publisher HarperCollins.
His net worth is a staggering $8.96bn.
Zhukova previously worked as a molecular diabetes specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hailing from Russia, she was married to Alexander Zhukov, a Russian-born British billionaire investor.
Murdoch’s previous wife, former supermodel Jerry Hall, and the media mogul divorced in 2022. He has been previously married to Wendi Deng, Anna Murdoch Mann, and Patricia Booker.
He has six children.
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