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A Bad Week for ... , June 16, 2013

Wendi Deng, the wife of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, was hit with a divorce petition.

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The wife of billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch was hit with a divorce petition. The couple, who met at a Hong Kong cocktail party when Deng was working for Murdoch's Star TV, may struggle to match the US$1 billion payout Murdoch paid his second wife Anna Torv due to a prenuptial agreement she is thought to have signed.

 

The former Australian minister found himself at the centre of scorn and condemnation after a menu for a dinner fundraiser for the Liberal National Party candidate was revealed to contain crude and vulgar references to Labor Party members, including Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Brough, who is a candidate in September's national elections, said he had not seen the menu offering "Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail" that used derogatory remarks about her breasts, thighs and genitalia.

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