The wedding was held at Murdoch's estate Moraga on June 1, according to US and UK media reports.
Rupert Murdoch Marries For A Fifth Time, Wedding Elena Zhukova At His Bel Air Vineyard— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) https://t.co/y66G5RWnvb pic.twitter.com/l5Q0OzKOb7June 2, 2024
Guests included New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his wife Dana Blumberg as well as News Corp chief executive Robert Thompson.
The nuptials come just months after Murdoch stepped down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, ending a more than seven-decade career at the helm of a sprawling media empire.
Zhukova, 67, who emigrated from Moscow to the US in 1991, is a retired molecular biologist. The pair began dating last northern summer and met through Murdoch's third wife, Wendi Deng, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Murdoch's most recent marriage to actress and model Jerry Hall ended in divorce in 2022 after six years.
He was briefly engaged last year to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, though the pair called off the engagement weeks later.
Vanity Fair reported the break-up, citing one source who said Murdoch had grown uncomfortable with Smith's outspoken evangelical views.
Moraga is the same place where Murdoch and Walt Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger first discussed Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, a $71 billion deal that closed in 2019.
AAP and Reuters
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