page_title: Wendi Deng Murdoch
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Wendi Deng Murdoch / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Murdoch at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival.
context_page_description: Wendi Deng Murdoch is a Chinese-born American entrepreneur, investor, movie producer, media mogul and collector of Chinese contemporary art. She was the third wife of News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.
context_section_description: Jake and Joyce Cherry hosted Deng in their home during her studies in the United States.  Later, Jake Cherry left his wife, and married Wendi Deng in 1990. While married to Cherry, Wendi Deng Murdoch obtained a green card. Their marriage lasted 2 years and 7 months when they divorced. Jake later said that they stayed together for only four to five months when he learned that Deng was spending time with David Wolf, a man closer to her age.
  In 1997, she met Rupert Murdoch, who is 37 years her senior, while working as an executive at the Murdoch-owned Star TV in Hong Kong. They married in 1999 on board his yacht "Morning Glory", less than three weeks after the finalization of his divorce from his second wife, Anna Murdoch. The couple had two children, Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Tony Blair is Grace Murdoch's godfather. In June 2013, Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from Wendi Murdoch, citing irreconcilable differences.
  On July 19, 2011, Wendi Murdoch counter-attacked Jonathan May-Bowles (comedian Jonnie Marbles) after he attempted to throw a pie at her husband Rupert Murdoch while he was giving testimony before a British parliamentary committee considering the News International phone hacking scandal. May-Bowles was subsequently sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment.
  In February 2014, The Daily Telegraph and Vanity Fair alleged that Wendi Murdoch had an affair with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. An article in The Economist claimed that as a result of Rupert Murdoch's suspicion that Blair had an affair with his wife, he ended his long-standing association with Blair in 2014.
  In early 2018, The Wall Street Journal published a story suggesting that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, close acquaintances of Murdoch, were warned by US intelligence agencies that Murdoch may be using their friendship to further the goals of the Chinese government. Kushner, Trump and Murdoch denied the allegations, while none of the parties involved, including Murdoch, were formally accused of any wrongdoing.
  Murdoch lives in New York City with her two daughters.
caption: Rupert and Wendi Murdoch in 2011
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