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Deng Biography :
Wife of Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation Executive Famous
for : marrying the Australian born media mogul Rupert Murdoch and having
two children with him (in his seventies). Deng details
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Deng was an executive in the Asian satellite television
division of News
Corporation before marrying the head of the company, Rupert
Murdoch. She now lives with Murdoch in New York with their two children, Grace
and Chloe.
Deng was born in Xuzhou, China to a middle class family. Her
father presided over a machinery factory, which allowed them to live a relatively
comfortable life.
She studied in the United States and received a master's
degree in business administration at the Yale School of Management, before returning
to Hong Kong to work at News Corporation's STAR TV.
Deng's life changed
completely when she met and married Rupert Murdoch in 1999. She became Murdoch's
third wife on the 25th of June, 1999. News of the marriage created much talk in
the media as there was an almost 40 year age difference between the couple.
Age has been no barrier to fathering more children for the 70+ year old Rupert
Murdoch as they have had two children together. Grace Helen Murdoch was born in
2001 and Chloe Murdoch was born in 2003.
Wendi Deng continues to be active
in the News Corp company, especially with Murdoch's push into the potentially
lucrative market of China. Chinese born Deng has recently been working on the
MySpace.com
move into China. "We have to make MySpace a very Chinese site.
I have sent my wife across there because she understands the language.” Rupert
Murdoch 2006
Although Deng and Murdoch's previous family
are said to remain close, there have been
some tension in regards to voting rights
of a Murdoch family owned trust that controls
a 28.5 percent voting stake of News Corporation.
His previous children did not object to
sharing the financial wealth with their
two new half sisters, but they did not believe
they should have the voting rights. Tension
over the trust was one contributing factor
to Murdoch's eldest son and potential successor
(Lachlan
Murdoch) leaving the News Corp company.
I'm
a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30
years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. Rupert
Murdoch - Change
- Success
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There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy
and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions
of voices and people want to be heard. Rupert
Murdoch - Internet
- Technology
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