Rupert Murdoch files for divorce
News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi, the company has confirmed. He married his third wife in 1999.
Rupert Murdoch's three wives and six children
Rupert Murdoch's first marriage to flight attendant Patricia Booker took place in 1956 and lasted 11 years. They had one daughter, Prudence, in 1958.
In 1967, he married the Scottish-born journalist Anna Torv after the pair met at his Sydney-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
They had three children together - Elisabeth, Lachlan and James - over the course of more than 30 years of marriage.
Within a month of their divorce in 1999, Murdoch married Chinese-born TV executive Wendi Deng with whom he had two more daughters - Grace and Chloe.
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