Don't Mess With Murdoch's Wife
Don't mess with Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's 43-year-old Chinese-born wife.
Deng, thrust herself into the world spotlight today when she smacked down a pie-throwing activist during Parliamentary hearings on the phone hacking scandal which has plunged Murdoch's News Corp into grave crisis and is roiling the political and police establishment in Britain.
For most of today's hearing, Wendi sat demurely behind her husband, appropriately loyal and supportive, her salmon-colored jacket and royal blue blouse standing out in a sea of sober charcoal gray. But those who know Wendi were not surprised to see her leap into action to defend her man. When a man in a checkered shirt burst into the room—triggering alarm but seeming to paralyze many onlookers—and slammed a foam pie over Rupert Murdoch's face, it was his third wife—who was a volleyball player in her youth—who went on the offensive. Wendi lunged toward the attacker, pushing down a gray-clad woman in the way with her left hand and using her right arm to smack the guy on the top of his head.
If Wendi stole the show, it was a performance for which she could have been rehearsing all her life. Wendi might appear willowy and demure, but she's also tall—at least 5-foot-10—and extremely tough. Melinda Liu at The Daily Beast serves up a great backgrounder - Forbes