Sometimes the mere existence of a rumor is as interesting as the rumor itself, and the recent surge of people breathlessly telling us that Wendi Deng Murdoch is cuckolding News Corp. Rupert Murdoch certainly falls into that category. In the last couple weeks, three separate people have come forward to tell us Deng is…
Next Monday is Wendi Deng's birthday, just in case you're looking for something fun to add to your datebook or you happen to be a close, personal friend and you've yet to pick up a suitable gift. So what does the notoriously demanding third wife of Rupert Murdoch have planned for the big event? "According to a source…
For the most part, Rupert Murdoch courts controversy. "He likes to set the house on fire and watch all the fire engines drive maniacally down the road," Michael Wolff writes in a biography of the News Corporation chairman. But he's touchy about his third wife, Wendi Deng, nearly 40 years his junior. He was upset when…
Two weeks ago the news surfaced that Viacom chief Sumner Redstone and his second wife, Paula Fortunato, were divorcing after five years of marriage. Much was made of Redstone and Fortunato's 39-year age gap and the couple's pre-nup, which will provide Fortunato with a $5 million fortuno for the five years she spent…
♦ Real estate exec Chuck Berman and his wife Melanie paid $6.7 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West. [Cityfile]
♦ Oscar Schafer, the managing partner of OSS Capital, has lowered the price of his 17th-floor apartment at the Plaza for the second time since June. It's now $14.5 million (down…
Lucy Southworth made the cut at AOL's Asylum blog, even though hubby Larry Page isn't the CEO of his company. If you don't want to click through Asylum's pop-up interactive preso, I searched our photo databases to find real-world shots — not Photoshopped promo pictures — of Asylum's two other Valley-related picks.…
Would you let your DNA end up on a database controlled by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has financial backing from Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng and Harvey Weinstein? The glam crowd at a Fashion Week "spit party" thrown by 23andme.com—which offers testing to reveal ancestry,…
Why doesn't News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch just make it official? His wife, Wendi Deng, serves as "chief strategist" for MySpace China, the media conglomerate's Internet outpost in her homeland. MySpace China CEO Luo Chan has just quit. Just promote her already, Rupert! You're not going to have any luck recruiting an…
All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger…
That's Wendi, not Wendy, to you. She was born Deng Wenge (her birth name means "Cultural Revolution" in Mandarin) in the Shandong province of China. At age 16 she enrolled in Guangshou Medical College, but quite three years later after earning a student visa to study economics at California State University,…
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is, two days away from his company's first-quarter earnings call, sunning himself in Tahiti. As is Greco-American blog tycoon Arianna Huffington and Wendi Deng, wife of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Huffington is reportedly there on vacation, but it's a stretch to think Brin and Deng…
If there is any lingering doubt that Rupert Murdoch is going to change the Wall Street Journal, consider The Far Eastern Economic Review. The small monthly became part of the Australian uber-mogul's empire in December. The magazine was planning to run a review of a tell-some book about Murdoch's time in China. When…
"I don't think anyone got killed there!" Wendi Murdoch (née Deng) told the Observer when asked about the Chinese government's abuses in Tibet. Boy, being married to Rupert Murdoch sure helps keep one abreast of the news. [NYO]
Rumors are swirling that MySpace will announce a platform for application developers, like Facebook's next week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. But they're wrong, according to a source close to the company. There is a platform in the works, but it's not ready yet — delayed, like so many other MySpace tech…
"It sounds like fired publisher Judith Regan is ready to bury the hatchet with Rupert Murdoch—in his skull. She was overheard at the Waverly Inn the other night loudly making the unlikely claim that the News Corp. boss is regularly hit by his wife, Wendi." Oh, whatever, we're sure it's consensual. [Gatecrasher]
MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe may not be your friend (that's the other co-founder, Tom Anderson), but he does hold a few powerful people near-and-dear. Including, Portfolio reports, Wendi Deng, the wife of News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch. Portfolio surmises that DeWolfe's friendship with Deng might help convince…
Remember the recent news about Wikiscanner, the website that allows you to see who has edited individual Wikipedia entries? British publication Private Eye has put it to good use, finding that the Wikipedia page for Wendi Deng, wife of Wall Street Journal proprietor and world tabloid overlord Rupert Murdoch, went…
In lieu of the regular (and tedious) daily roundup of Rupert Murdoch stories, please enjoy this A.P. picture of the News Corp. mogul and his wife, Wendi Deng, strolling about Sun Valley. Is it just us, or do the people at Jim Henson Productions have a pretty good case of copyright infringement here?
Today's developments in the continuing Rupert Murdoch saga:
The Guardian bought the profile of Wendi Deng Murdoch that was spiked back in May by Australia's Fairfax group amidst suspicion that Rupert Murdoch didn't want it to see print. The Independent hears rumors that the paper will not run the piece because "the profile is rather one-sided. " Uh, what's the other side? […
