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By now most of the world knows that Wendi Deng can pounce on an attacker wielding foam. But there’s much more to the Chinese immigrant who married the media tycoon.
Deng grew up in Guangzhou, where her father was a factory manager. An exceptional student, she enrolled at Guangzhou Medical College at the age of 16 but withdrew after Jake and Joyce Cherry — an American couple working in China — agreed to sponsor her student visa to study at California State University, Northridge.
Murdoch married Deng on June 25, 1999, just 17 days after he finalized his divorce from his second wife. Deng gave up her job at Star TV and relocated to New York City.
Part of that resolution was to have children. Deng gave birth to Grace in 2001 and to Chloe two years later.
Deng has more than 124,000 followers on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site. Her page includes plenty of pics of Deng with friends like Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban and Hugh Jackman. She frequently refers to Murdoch as her "hubby."
When Murdoch took his seat at the July 19 parliamentary hearing, Deng patted his back and poured him a glass of water. Early in his testimony, she told him to stop banging on the table. Despite being the one to usually give orders, not receive them, Murdoch obeyed.
So much for keeping Facebook out of China.
Felix Roque allegedly hacked the email account associated with the website and nixed the domain registration in an effort to muzzle an insurgent political campaign to oust the mayor.
