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.
You’ll remember Wendi most as the woman who prevented her husband, who is 38 years older than her, from being pied in the face while testifying during the News International hacking scandal of 2011. Before her international infamy, Deng, who is originally from China, met Murdoch while working for his company, and was the subject of an unflattering Wall Street Journal which described her breaking up both Murdoch’s previous marriage and the marriage of her first husband. She also got some great publicity when Gawker published an exposé into the way she treated her former nanny (a brief recap: not well). The New York Times‘ Amy Chozick reports that Deng “has been informed” that she is getting divorced, language that makes it seem as though she could be surprised by this news. Finke’s insider source confirms this, saying “The divorce happened very quickly.”