The hot new couple in international gossip circles doesn’t include a Bieber or a Kardashian, but a Putin.

Yes, we’re talking Vladimir Putin, the controversial, icy-eyed president of Russia. And, he’s reportedly found love — or something — in the arms of Wendi Deng, the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch. Yes, it appears Deng definitely has a thing for men with megalomaniacal drives for money and power — and maybe other drives as well.

According to US Weekly, the juicy rumor circulating around Washington, D.C., Europe and Asia is that the big-chested, he-man Russian president, 63, and the ex-wife of the billionaire Newscorp. CEO are keeping each other company.

Apparently, the rumors have been floating around for years, at least since Putin and Deng’s respective divorces in 2014 and 2013. Us Weekly says it has a source close to Putin, and that source confirms that the relationship is “serious.”

Of course, we may never know for sure, given that Putin, a former KGB officer, has always been famously secretive about his personal life.

The world barely heard that he had a wife of 30 years, or that he had two daughters, now 30 and 29. The Kremlin grudgingly confirmed that Putin divorced Lyudmila Putina in April 2014.

Then there were the feverish rumors on European gossip sites that Putin had hooked up with Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva and that they even a child together, with her giving birth to their child at a Swiss hospital in March 2015. The Kremlin denied the existence of a love child.

Deng’s personal life has been something of a more open book. The businesswoman, 47, who was married to Murdoch for 14 years, made headlines in 2011 when she slapped a protester’s face after he tried to throw a pie at her husband during a meeting with the British parliament. Us Weekly says their divorce came about in part because Murdoch had grown suspicious of her relationship with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Murdoch has since moved on, marrying former super model and ex-Mick Jagger squeeze Jerry Hall in March.

No one has spotted Deng and Putin involved in any PDA, but Deng was seen boarding the yacht of Roman Abramovich in St. Bart’s on Monday. Abramovich, the billionaire owner of the Chelsea Football Club, happens to be friends with Putin and even gave the president a $35 million yacht of his own. Sounds like the perfect location for a Black Sea tryst!

Martha Ross provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Follow her at twitter.com/marthajross.