# Rupert divorcing Wendi -- I am so sad **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 14, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975 "2013-06-14T07:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/1 "2013-06-14T07:44:44Z")
James Bond movies often have a super-villain, more powerful than many countries and intent on world domination. The super-villain often has a voluptuous woman as companion and bodyguard/assassin. Rupert Murdoch has impressed me as almost a fantasy-come-true supervillian of the Bond genre. And his 6-foot tall wife Wendi Deng seems like the perfect moll for him. One can’t look at her without imagining a woman trained in many skills, possibly including martial arts. [Here’s a video of a 2011 incident where Wendi protected her husband](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyqSGM-7oo#t=24). As her stepson James is about to answer a Parliament Member’s question, a man prepares to throw a pie in Rupert’s face. Wendi is the woman with a pink shirt who tackles the assailant. But alas, Rupert is divorcing Wendi. ☹ Grounds of divorce are confidential, but Wendi is now more than half Rupert’s age. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/2 "2013-06-14T10:51:30Z")
Don’t worry too much. I’m sure wife#4 will be much younger. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/3 "2013-06-14T12:27:33Z")
_Who’s tripping down the streets of the city Smilin’ at everybody she sees? Who’s cashin’ out a sizeable fortune? Everyone knows it’s Wendi…_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/4 "2013-06-14T15:11:38Z")
Grace Jones is single. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/5 "2013-06-14T15:40:44Z")
She was a little slow on the draw and let the pie assailant get a little close in that video. Maybe her Ninja skills are slowing down in her old age. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/6 "2013-06-14T15:42:12Z")
There are some frankly crazy rumours flying around about what the reason for the divorce is… an affair with Tony Blair (Wendi, not Rupe) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/7 "2013-06-14T15:59:22Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Don’t worry too much. I’m sure wife#4 will be much younger. Or at least Foxier. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/8 "2013-06-14T16:43:11Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [Here’s a video of a 2011 incident where Wendi protected her husband](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyqSGM-7oo#t=24). That was so magnificent that were I Rupert, I’d stay in an empty marriage with her and fool around on the side, just because. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/9 "2013-06-14T16:52:38Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > She was a little slow on the draw and let the pie assailant get a little close in that video. Maybe her Ninja skills are slowing down in her old age. Clearly Brittany Griner’s time has come. She’ll shatter all existing records for pie blocking. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/10 "2013-06-15T22:40:23Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Don’t worry too much. I’m sure wife#4 will be much younger. And, Rupert is philosophical about the risks of a heart attack on their wedding night. “If she dies, she dies,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/11 "2013-06-15T22:50:17Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > She was a little slow on the draw and let the pie assailant get a little close in that video. Maybe her Ninja skills are slowing down in her old age. Maybe she was involved in the pie situation, and just attacked her cohort when too much attention was focused on her inactivity. It just seems too suspicious. We can’t overlook any aspect of this foul, foul deed! Also, if I saw correctly, wasn’t the thrower dressed like Jethro Bodine in a room full of $3,000 suits??? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/12 "2016-08-18T04:12:11Z")
It seems time to update this story. Sir Rupert Murdoch tied the nuptial knot with Jerry Hall, mother of Sir Mick Jagger’s children, so those predicting Sir Rupert was trading Wendi in on a newer model were wrong. (Is it proper to call Rupert “Sir”? He is a Knight Commander of The Order of St. Gregory the Great.) More interesting is Wendi Deng who traded up — [she is now allegedly dating Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of All The Russias.](http://fusion.net/story/337101/ivanka-trump-putin-murdoch-wendy-deng-croatia/) :eek: Especially interesting is that Putin’s alleged bangee is [very close friends with Ivanka Trump](http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/83247347/putin-conspiracy-theories-swirl-as-wendi-murdoch-holidays-with-ivanka-trump): e.g. she introduced Ivanka to her husband Jared Kusher. Bizarre? :eek: The Putin-Trump connection gets a little firmer, with the fantasy villainess I wrote of 3 years ago playing a key role. Or have I been duped — is Google News just an aggregator now for The Onion and other hoax sites? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/13 "2016-08-18T04:47:37Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > (Is it proper to call Rupert “Sir”? He is a Knight Commander of The Order of St. Gregory the Great.) Nope. The papal orders of knighthood don’t come with any particular form of address. If you were addressing him in Italian it would be polite to call him, as an untitled knight, “Don Rupert”. But as I don’t think he speak Italian you’ll hardly be addressing him in in that language, so the point is probably moot. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/14 "2016-08-18T04:56:40Z")
“That conservative fruitcake” works well enough for me. (ETA: Not Trump…he’s a ‘conservative’ nutjob…) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/15 "2016-08-18T11:14:19Z")
Jerry Hall \> Murdoch \> Wendi \> Putin \> Ivanka \> Trump ^^ **This has to be The Single Most Disgusting Kanye West Orgy Image ever concieved by Man…** ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/16 "2016-08-18T14:40:27Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > (Is it proper to call Rupert “Sir”? He is a Knight Commander of The Order of St. Gregory the Great.) I wonder why the Catholic Church would bestow such an honor on a man who’s been divorced three times. (Not that there’s anything wrong with divorce in my opinion but I thought the Church frowned upon it, and wouldn’t let a divorced person remarry in a church.) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/17 "2016-08-18T15:05:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I wonder why the Catholic Church would bestow such an honor on a man who’s … [They bestowed a similar honor on Michael Corleone after he gave confession.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2QvuZpxmeo) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/18 "2016-08-18T15:24:56Z")
I’m pretty sure Michael Corleone never actually divorced Kay. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/19 "2016-08-18T16:14:10Z")
I’m not a Catholic. Are you saying multiple murders are OK, but divorce is unforgivable? If you don’t like your wife it’s better to kill her than divorce her? And why are we talking about Murdoch’s knighthood? Isn’t the Putin-Wendi-Trump connection more interesting? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975/20 "2016-08-18T16:20:26Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I’m not a Catholic. Are you saying multiple murders are OK, but divorce is unforgivable? If you don’t like your wife it’s better to kill her than divorce her? > > And why are we talking about Murdoch’s knighthood? Isn’t the Putin-Wendi-Trump connection more interesting? 1. There’s no pictures of Deng with Putin. 2. I can’t imagine his self-image would allow him to be with a woman 5 inches taller than he is. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rupert-divorcing-wendi-i-am-so-sad/660975.md?page=2)