Wendi Deng

Wendi Murdoch (née Deng) (simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí, originally ; pinyin: Dèng Wéngé) (born 1968) is a Chinese born American businesswoman, and wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.

Deng was born and raised in Xuzhou, Jiangsu.Citation
last = Ellis
first = Eric
title = Wendi Deng Murdoch
newspaper = The Monthly
pages = 28–40
year = 2007
date = June 2007 ] She attended the local Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School. During high school, Deng's father relocated to Guangzhou to work at the People's Machinery Works, whilst Deng remained behind for a short while. Afterwards Deng joined her father in Guangzhou, and began medical studies. In 1987, at the age of 18, she met Jake Cherry (who is 30 years older than Deng), an American working for Guangzhou Engineering Factory, and his wife Joyce, who started teaching Deng English. In 1988 Mr and Mrs Cherry sponsored a student visa for Deng and she moved to America to live with the Cherrys and to study at California State University.

In their November 1, 2000 edition, the "Wall Street Journal" published an article in which claims were made about Deng's personal history. The authors claimed that, in 1990, Jake Cherry left his wife to marry Deng after his wife found photos her husband had taken of Deng in a Guangzhou hotel room. Four months through their marriage, the article said, Jake Cherry asked Deng to leave when he found out she had been seeing another man. Subsequently, several other news outlets carried or made reference to the "Wall Street Journal" article. The Murdochs have denounced these rumours as "malicious nonsense." [ cite news
last =Leonard
first =Tom
title =How Murdoch's wife won her ticket to America
publisher =The Daily Telegraph
date =19 June 2001
url =http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/11/02/wmurd02.xml
accessdate = 2007-08-31 ]

Cherry and Deng divorced after two years and seven months of marriage. Deng went on to apply to and be accepted by Yale University, where she received an MBA.

Deng has recently become a director and chief strategist for the holding company that licences the MySpace brand and technology to MySpace China, her first formal involvement in the media business since she left her job as a Vice President of News Corporation's STAR TV in Hong Kong in the late 1990s.Fact|date=June 2007

She married Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931) on June 25, 1999. The couple have two children, Grace and Chloe, and live in Manhattan.

References

*ABC (Australia) (2007), 'Spiked!', http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1916646.htm
*ABC (Australia) (2007), 'Stain Removal', http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2016916.htm

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1916646.htm 07 May 2007 ABC (Australia) (2007), 'Spiked!']
* [http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2016916.htm 27 August 2007 ABC (Australia) (2007), 'Stain Removal']
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB973040597961471219.html Wall Street Journal]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/11/02/wmurd02.xml Telegraph news]
* [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14302/index5.html NYMag Feature]
* [http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/it/category/wendi-deng/ Wendi Murdoch to work with MySpace]