Now that 82-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch is back on the market, all anyone is concerned about is who his next young thang will be. At least that's all anyone who was sitting at one table in a Los Angeles restaurant that New York Times reporter Brooks Barnes found himself next to recently.
Most people prefer their news with a side of naked women, so it's a total surprise that the British paper The Sun has come under fire recently for it's section Page 3, where it regularly features topless ladies looking finnne.
Proving no matter what Sharon Waxman thinks, she's still got it, Nikki Finke got the ultimate scoop today: news that News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife of 13 years early Thursday morning. The couple have two children.
Jowls about town Rupert Murdoch is an 82-year-old media magnate who enjoys owning Fox News, the occasional (ALLEGED!!) phone hacking, and, on a slow day, taking to his mainly boring Twitter account to wax poetic on subjects that confuse him. Unfortunately, yesterday became such a day when the foldy faced wonder boy…
Shrill, polarizing funnyman Zach Galifianakis just got engaged to his longtime girlfriend Quinn Lundberg and the couple's already planning the nuptials for August 11th. Lundberg is the co-founder of Growing Voices, a non-profit organization that connects international donors to community-based projects.
We're not even one day into the new year and already dreams are being crushed: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes spent last night partying in New York together. They flew in from LA on Friday and tried to stay low-profile by boarding the flight at separate times, but, yeah, like that's going to make any difference. And now…
Depending on who you talk to, Rupert Murdoch getting cream pied in the face was hilarious, deserved, disgraceful, embarrassing, silly, or some combination thereof. For Murdoch's wife, 43-year-old Wendi Deng, the act was a call to arms- or rather, hands. Footage of the incident shows Deng leaping to her husband's aid…
The ongoing scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. involves a lot of high-profile women. Today we take a look at some of the most famous ones — and a few less well-known women in Murdoch's life.
When Milly Dowler, 13, went missing in 2002, investigators were misled and her desperate family was temporarily cheered. That's because they believed the fact that voicemail messages were being deleted from her phone meant she was still alive. In fact, the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Of The World was deleting the…
Rupert Murdoch's tabloid magazine British Sunday has issued an official apology for hacking into voice mails of celebrities, politicians, and "royal household staff." The weekly paper has offered compensation and "apologized unreservedly" for the "unacceptable hacking." Apparently, The New York Times had alleged in a story…
News networks are reportedly mulling a new pay model for online news, but if news means stories about kidnapper Phillip Garrido, then Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age doesn't think it's worth our money.
Last night in New York, Time magazine hosted a reception honoring its self-selected 100 Most Influential people of the year and, I have to say, the women in attendance were a cool bunch: Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Angelica Huston, Wendy Kopp, Tina Fey, Madeeha Hasan Odhaib, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others. And…
Okay let's cut to the chase: Last night. Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala. Theme was "Superheroes." Everyone and their brother was there. I've broken the photos down into Good, Bad, and Ugly for your viewing pleasure. The Good — including Victoria Beckham, Christina Ricci, Diane Kruger, Iman, Mischa…
Despite the majority of Oscar party cancellations in light of the seemingly un-ending (and now ended) WGA strike, Elton John's long-running, star-studded fete was in full swing last night. Many of this year's nominees and winners dropped by, as did others, including Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Courtney Love,…
Rupert Murdoch is launching another ladymag! And we're kind of excited. (As you may know, Rupert's first foray into this market happened last fall with the launch of Page Six Magazine, a weekly that, depending on your point of view, is either depressingly, apocalypse usher-innningly dumbed-down — or about as smart as…
Former HarperCollins imprint editor and assistant taunting "crazy bitch" Judith Regan finally filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against NewsCorp, HarperCollins' parent company yesterday, almost a year after she was fired for planning a certain O.J. Simpson confessional and also for alleged anti-Semitic remarks.…
The best way to describe the brand new Page Six Magazine is New York as told to Life & Style, a verdict we would have delivered sooner if the president of Iran had not provided such irresistible fodder for our celebrity. fashion. feminism. website.* To be sure, we hear the News Corp overlords gave the editorial team…
You asked us to find a way News Corp.'s acquisition of Dow Jones was bad for women, and in today's Wall Street Journal we finally found our answer in the form of not one, but two separate lady-penned "Personal Journal" section stories exhorting the womyns to wear uncomfortable clothes in the workplace, even when it's a…
