Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries his fifth wife, Elena Zhukova

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is a married man again: He married Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist whose daughter was married to a prominent Russian oligarch.

Zhukova, 67, became the 93-year-old’s fifth wife after several months of dating. Photos published by The sun, a tabloid owned by Murdoch, showed the couple beaming during a wedding photo shoot at Murdoch’s Moraga winery in California. The British tabloid reported that the pair were surrounded by “delighted parents” on their big day.

Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal through his company News Corp – and which was a key inspiration for the HBO show Succession– has six children, one of whom succeeded him as chairman of News Corp last year. Zhukova’s daughter Dasha, a 42-year-old art collector, was previously married to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea FC who has ties to Vladimir Putin. Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova were married in 2008 and divorced in 2018; she is now married to a son of Greek shipping magnate Phillip Niarchos.

Reports that Murdoch was dating Zhukova began circulating last April, four months after he broke off a brief engagement to conservative radio host Ann Lesley Smith, 67. Murdoch and Zhukova allegedly met at a family reunion hosted by Murdoch’s third wife, Wendi Deng, according to The Guardian.

Zhukova came to the United States shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, and her ex-husband, Alexander Zhukov, is a billionaire energy investor who now lives in London.