After 14 years, two children and a close shave with a cream pie, Rupert Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng, 44, on Thursday, saying that their relationship had “broken down irretrievably.” Deng became an overnight celebrity in 2011 when she leaped to her husband’s defense at a British judicial hearing, earning her the moniker "tiger wife." But even before that incident, media couple Murdoch and Deng were subjects of intense press coverage. TIME has condensed their high-profile relationship into a timeline of courtship, marriage and now divorce. —Dan Kedmey
Murdoch ended his 31-year-marriage to Anna Torv Murdoch in 1998. The New York Post, one of Murdoch’s papers, called it an “amicable separation,” but Anna’s recollection of events, according to New York magazine, were slightly less than amicable. She claimed Murdoch kicked her off of the board of News Corp., calling her an “embarrassment” in front of the other board members and reducing her to tears.
