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Revision as of 23:43, 19 July 2011
Wendi Deng Murdoch 邓文迪 | |
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 in New York City (April 2010) | |
| Born | Wenge Deng December 8, 1968[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Spouse(s) | Jake Cherry (m. 1990–1993) Rupert Murdoch (m. 1999–present) |
| Children | Grace Murdoch (b. 2001) Chloe Murdoch (b. 2005) |
Wendi Deng (born December 8, 1968) is the leader of News Corporation China investments, she is the third wife of its Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch.
In 1988 she was sponsored by an American family for her immigration into the United States of America on a student visa, she studied economics and last attended Yale. Her first work experience in the media was with Fox TV, from there she was offered an internship at Star TV, Hong Kong, part of News Corporation. Dengs influence has seen the company gain entry into the Chinese market. Deng later married the owner Rupert Murdoch, the couple met in Hong Kong in 1997 when Deng was 29 years old and twice-before-married Mr Murdoch was 68. Her focus has since been on pushing forward with News Corps business interests in China.
Early life and education
Born in Jinan, Shandong, China as 邓文革 Dèng Wéngé; (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; traditional Chinese: 鄧文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí). She changed her name to Wendi Deng in 1985.[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.[4]
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.[5][6]
After studying at Cal State Northridge, Deng attended business school at Yale University.
Career
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 blocked a man who tried to throw a plate of white foam in her husband's face during a highly publicized testimony in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal.[10]
Personal life
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.[5] The two married in 1990.[4] Deng and Cherry's marriage lasted 2 years and 7 months before they were legally divorced,[5] but he would later explain they only stayed together for 4 or 5 months,[4] after which he learned of the extramarital relationship Deng had with David Wolf.[4] Nonetheless, she had been able to secure a green card through being legally married to Cherry.[4][5]
In 1997, Deng met Rupert Murdoch at a company party in Hong Kong.[6] Deng and Murdoch married in 1999,[11] less than three weeks after his divorce from ex-wife Anna Maria Torv Murdoch Mann was finalized.[11] They live in Manhattan with their two daughters: Grace Helen Murdoch (born 2001) and Chloe Murdoch (born 2005). Deng is pro-vegan.[12]
See also
- Cultural Revolution - literal meaning of Deng's name in Chinese
References
- ^ Lewis, Hilary. "Happy Belated Birthday, Wendi Deng!". Business Insider.
- ^
Ellis, Eric (June 2007). "Wendi Deng Murdoch — A Life". The Monthly. pp. 28–40.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Wendi Wields Influence at NewsCorp.". The Wall Street Journal. November 2, 2000. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Leonard, Tom (2 November 2000). "How Murdoch's wife won her ticket to America". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "The Boy Who Wouldn't Be King". New York Media. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Wendi Deng: Heiress Apparent?". The Asia Magazine. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
- ^ Lippman, John. "Rupert Murdoch's Wife Wendi Wields Influence at News Corp". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Who is Wendi Murdoch?". 5 November 2000. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ "Wendi Murdoch to work with MySpace". China Economic Review. July 4, 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ Associated Press (19 July 2011). "Murdochs, Brooks Face Questioning by British Lawmakers". Fownews.com.
- ^ a b "NNDb.com". NNDb.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ Stein, Joel (November 4, 2010). "The Rise of the Power Vegans". BusinessWeek (Bloomberg).
External links
- "Spiked!". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 May 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- "Stain Removal". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 August 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2010. (discusses the WikiScanner data in the editing of this Wikipedia article on Wendi Deng)
- Template:Zh icon 邓文迪 at Baidu Baike and 邓文迪 at Hudong
- Template:Zh icon Chinese MySpace page, photos and blog
- Articles with inconsistent citation formats
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Yale School of Management alumni
- California State University, Northridge alumni
- American people of Chinese descent
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Han Chinese people
- Murdoch family
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- People from Xuzhou
- Myspace
- News Corporation