Wendi Deng

A native of China, Wendi Deng was born in 1969 in Xuzhou. She later moved to southern city Guangzhou with her parents. Her father was president of a machinary factory in Guangzhou, and the family lived a 3-bedroom apartment, wealthy by the standard of China at that time. She has 2 sisters and a brother. She attended Guangzhou Medical College. She is a Yale University graduate and the wife of Rupert Murdoch.

In 1987, she met Mr. and Mrs. Cherry from Los Angeles, California. Mr. Jake Cherry, who was 50, worked in GuangZhou in a factory building refrigeration facility. Mrs. Cherry, who was 42, started tutoring Wendi English. In 1988, Wendi arrived at Los Angeles with student visa, sponsored by Cherry couple. She registered in a , California State University at Northridge, a state college and shared a bedroom with Cherry's daughtor. Later on, Cherrys' were separated, soon after, Mr. Cherry and Ms. Deng moved into an apartment, before Cherrys' filed divorce.

Mr. Cherry and Wendi married in 1990, 4 months after, Mr. Cherry asked her to leave, because of a gentleman named David Wolf who Wendi got close with. According to court record of Los Angeles County Supreme Court, the marriage between Mr. Cherry and Wendi lasted 2 years and 7 months, 7 months after she obtained her Permanent Resident status.

Deng was a Hong Kong based vice-president at Star TV when she met Rupert Murdoch, major shareholder and managing director of Star TV's parent company News Corporation. Murdoch divorced his wife of 31 years in 1998 and married Deng in June 1999 aboard the yacht Morning Glory on the Hudson river.

In 2001 the couple had a child, Deng's first, conceived via artificial insemination. Murdoch already had four children from his previous marriage.

Wendi Deng has since been central in softening the Chinese perceptions of media giant News Corporation and promoting its expansion into the Chinese market.