This is a GOOOOOD read: All about what ended the Murdoch-Deng marriage!!!
(Aside from the fact that Murdoch is a cretin, mind you...)
Seduced and Abandoned
The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom?
The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. “Oh, shit, oh, shit,” she wrote. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . . ”
The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. “Tony” was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the wealthiest individuals in America. His empire includes newspapers around the globe, the 21st Century Fox movie studio, the Fox TV network, and the publishing house HarperCollins. In the years between the Murdochs’ marriage, in 1999, and their divorce, 14 years later, a story emerged that could have come right off the pages of one of the tabloids produced by News Corporation, Murdoch’s media conglomerate, complete with all the usual lurid ingredients: sex, lies, power, money, charges of infidelity.....The dénouement began with the backstairs rumblings of servants. Murdoch, 82, had long heard rumors that his 45-year-old wife was involved in extramarital affairs. But when those rumors grew to include too familiar a relationship with Blair, according to a former News Corp. employee in the U.K., “that was something that really took him aback.” After all, through the power of The Sun, and his other London newspapers, the Times and News of the World, Murdoch had virtually put Blair into office, and Blair had become not only a valued friend but also the godfather of Grace, the older of Rupert and Wendi’s two daughters. (Through a representative, Tony Blair declined to be interviewed. After the announcement of the divorce last June, The Hollywood Reporter published a categorical denial from Blair’s office.)
‘She got careless,” the source continues. “And for whatever reason, these affairs . . . they started to multiply and be amplified over the last year. In particular, the two relationships that have been commented on [in the press]: Eric Schmidt [the executive chairman of Google] and Tony Blair. Really shocking. Because when you look at the Blair piece, she would make up an excuse to be somewhere. She would say she’s going up to the ranch in Carmel with a girlfriend. And the girlfriend would leave, and Mr. Blair would turn up, and they would have a day or night. . . . There was staff around, and when you’re dealing with Tony Blair, there’s secret service, and arrangements need to be made.”....
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She's got two Murdoch kids, a permanent "in" to the Murdoch money, a couple of jazzy homes, a varied career based on her existing and potential investments, and MILLIONS. And her FREEDOM from that old lizard! What more could she possibly want? She played that situation like a pro! And came out of it richer, and looking far better, than she went in!
The Tony Blair business, though, was unexpected, a bit weird, and in an odd way, hilarious in a craven "situation comedy" fashion--who could have predicted that, and oh, how the mighty have fallen (and they can't seem to get up). Tony Blair has been denying this business for a year, nearly, now, but VF is doubling down. Who knew he was such a horny dog? So stupid? So shallow, as well? It's not like he hasn't seen, from a distance, what kind of uncomfortable fallout can come from intemperate conduct, after all.
I wonder what Cherie is thinking of the dumbass? Talk about "Middle aged crazy!"
Who needs "night-time soap operas" when this kind of foolishness is playing out in real life? If they put this very same scenario on tv with fictional characters playing the roles, absent this rather specific news, people would call it far-fetched! Truth IS stranger than fiction...
She was also very useful as the tip of the spear to get him into China....once that relationship went south, though, he stepped back from that game. His majority share in South China Morning Post was divested around the same time that he and Wendi were splitting up. He still has a chunk of that paper, but he's not the boss anymore, some pro-Beijing guy from Macao, I think, has the majority share.
That said, I do think he was besotted in the "No fool like an old fool" fashion! He may well have thought that pushing back against mortality by marrying youth would work; I think that kind of thing has the opposite effect--it exhausts the poor schmuck who is trying to fake being a kid when their bones are saying "Sit your ass down and have a cup of tea!" Years ago, Hugh Hefner in his "pajamas" used to be regarded as a libertine who was too horny to get out of his bedclothes....now he's regarded as an old man who is too FEEBLE to get out of his bedclothes! 
