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| Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from Wendi Deng | |
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| News Corporation's boss Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng, the company confirms. | |
| The couple, who were married in 1999, have two children together. | |
| According to a Hollywood gossip website, the couple filed their divorce papers at the New York state supreme court on Thursday morning. | |
| In 2011, Ms Deng famously leapt to her husband's defence to slap a protester who threw a pie at him as British MPs quizzed him over phone-hacking. | |
| Mr Murdoch reportedly met his Chinese-born third wife in 1997, at a company party. They were married two years later, weeks after his divorce from Anna Mann. | |
| The media mogul was reported to have paid $1.7bn (£1bn) in his divorce settlement from his last wife, according to CNBC news. | |
| The BBC's Robert Peston reports that the couple had a pre-nuptial agreement and have held shares in trust for their children, so the divorce between Mr Murdoch and Ms Deng divorce is not likely to lessen the magnate's grip on his media empire. | |
| New York Times media reporter Amy Chozik tweets that, according to the divorce filing, the "relationship between husband and wife has broken down irretrievably". |