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News Corp's Rupert Murdoch Files For Divorce Which Won't Effect News Corp Split - Deadline.com:
EXCLUSIVE 9 AM, 2ND UPDATE 10 AM WRITETHRU (contains new details): New Corp chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from wife Wendi Deng Murdoch this morning in New York State Supreme Court, Deadline learned at 9 AM. The divorce will not impact Rupert Murdoch’s mega-media holdings, according to insiders, and was deliberately announced for maximum transparency before New Corp spins off its publishing assets into a separately traded company by June 28th. (Murdoch will control both of these entities.) Today’s news comes despite numerous denials for months by PR man Steven Rubenstein and News Corp PR woman Julie Henderson to me as recently as April and May. (“We get this phone call once every 3-6 months,” Rubenstein and Henderson said at the time, pointing to the fact that Wendi and Rupert had recently hosted a dinner at their home for Oscar-winning Twentieth Century Fox director Ang Lee and were going away together on Spring Break.) But legal sources insisted to Deadline that the Murdochs’ divorce was being planned and, for the first time, not even Murdoch’s reps were denying yet another rift between Rupert and Wendi. In fact, his reps then admitted to me there had been marriage trouble but stressed ”it feels like its past whatever that was.” Today I’m told by insiders that, at that time, there were still no divorce proceedings underway so the denials were issued in good faith. “The divorce happened very quickly,” an insider tells me today.The couple met in 1997, at a company party in Hong Kong. They married in 1999, less than a month after his divorce from ex-wife Anna Maria Torv Murdoch was finalized. Wendi is perhaps most fondly remembered for standing up for her husband and clocking Jonathan May-Bowles after he threw a pie at her husband during highly publicized testimony before a British parliamentary committee in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal.
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