Wendi Deng
Wendi Deng (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; traditional Chinese: 鄧文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí; born December 8, 1968) is the third wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.
In 1988 she was sponsored by an American family for a student visa to the United States of America. She studied economics at Cal State Northridge and last attended Yale School of Management. Her first work experience in the media was with Fox TV. After Fox TV, she was offered an internship at Star TV, Hong Kong, part of News Corporation. Deng met Rupert Murdoch in Hong Kong in 1997 when Deng was 29 years old and Murdoch was 68.
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Wendi Deng Murdoch and Florence Low Sloan, at the launch of "Snow Flower
Early life and education
Born in Jinan, Shandong and raised in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, she was originally named Deng Wenge (邓文革).[2] She is the third of four children (three daughters, one son) born to engineers.[3] Deng attended the local Xuzhou First Secondary School and Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School. She developed a strong interest in playing volleyball. While Deng was in high school, her father relocated to Hangzhou, where he was employed at the People's Machinery Works; she and her family remained behind for a short while. In 1985, when she was 16 years old, Deng enrolled in Guangzhou Medical College.
In 1987 Deng met an American businessman and his wife, Jake and Joyce Cherry,[5] who had temporarily relocated to China to help build a refrigerator factory.[5] Deng asked the couple for tutoring lessons in English, which Joyce eventually provided.[5] In 1988, she abandoned her medical studies and travelled to the United States to study, with the Cherrys sponsoring Deng's student visa.[5] Deng enrolled at California State University, Northridge, where she studied economics and was among the top 1% of students.
After studying at Cal State Northridge, Deng attended business school at Yale University.
Career
Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser, Wendi Deng and husband Rupert Murdoch with MySpace co-founders at the 2006 Oxfam/MySpace Rock for Darfur event
Upon graduation from Yale, she began searching for a job, and met Bruce Campbell via a mutual friend; Campbell at the time oversaw finance and corporate development at the Fox TV branch in Los Angeles. He subsequently offered Deng an internship at News Corp subsidiary Star TV in Hong Kong, which developed into a full-time junior executive position. Though a junior employee,[7] Deng took a role in working to plan Star TV's operations in Hong Kong and China, and helped to build up Chinese distribution for Star's "Channel V" music channel. Additionally, she investigated interactive TV opportunities for News Digital Systems.
Deng has recently become a director for the holding company that licenses the MySpace brand and technology to MySpace China, her first formal involvement in the media business since she left her job as a junior executive at the company's Star TV in Hong Kong in 1999. Deng has led her husband's Chinese internet investments totalling between $35 million and $45m. She has led the way in forming business links with China for high-speed video and internet access. [8] She is now chief of strategy for MySpace’s China operation.[9]
Her public profile was raised after she leaped to the rescue of her husband and slapped the head of a man who attempted to push a plate of foam into his face [10] during a highly publicized testimony in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal.[11]
Personal life
Husband Rupert Murdoch and Wendi in 2011
After entering the United States, Deng lived with the Cherry family for a while when attending university. Mrs. Cherry suspected her husband was having an affair with Deng (30 years his junior) and demanded she leave the house. Mr. Cherry soon followed and moved in with her. The two married in 1990. Deng and Cherry's marriage lasted 2 years and 7 months before they were legally divorced, but he would later explain they only stayed together for 4 or 5 months, after which he learned of the extramarital relationship Deng had with David Wolf. Nonetheless, she had been able to secure a green card through being legally married to Cherry.
In 1997, Deng met Rupert Murdoch at a company party in Hong Kong. Deng and Murdoch married in 1999, less than three weeks after his divorce from ex-wife Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann was finalized. They live in Manhattan with their two daughters: Grace Helen Murdoch (born 2001) and Chloe Murdoch (born 2005). Deng is pro-vegan.
References from Wikipedia.com