NYP2001112101 - 21 NOVEMBER 2001- NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA: 70 year old media mogul Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi Deng became the proud parents of a baby girl named Grace Helen born on November 19, 2001. The couple, married for two years, are shown in an April 2001 file photo. rlw/ep/Ezio Petersen UPI | License Photo

News Corp Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch (L) and wife Wendi Deng arrive at the 82nd annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 7, 2010. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

Wendi Deng Murdoch arrives for the State Dinner for President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China, at the White House in Washington on January 19, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch | License Photo

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (L) and his wife Wendi Deng walk past photographers on the red carpet as they arrive for the annual White House Correspondent's Association dinner, April 30, 2011, in Washington,D.C. President Obama will attend the dinner, which combines the administration's top officials, Capitol Hill politicians and Hollywood glitz and glamour. UPI/Mike Theiler | License Photo

Wendi Deng Murdoch attends the New York premiere of the movie "The Ides of March" at the Ziegfeld Theater on October 5, 2011 in New York City. UPI /Monika Graff. | License Photo

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng arrive at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California on January 15, 2012. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

Wendi Deng Murdoch arrives at the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival Party in New York City on April 16, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo | License Photo

LONDON, June 14 (UPI) -- Tony Blair's representative has denied the former British prime minister was romantically involved with News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi.

"If you are asking if they are having an affair, the answer is no," the spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter, adding Blair would not publicly comment further on the Murdochs' divorce proceedings, which began in New York Thursday.


Media speculation about the cause of the split has focused on Wendi Murdoch's relationship with powerful men, including Blair, 60, who is married.

Wendi Deng Murdoch, 44, was born in China and attended college in the United States. She met Rupert Murdoch, now 82, while she was working for his Star TV operation in Hong Kong and married him on a yacht in New York Harbor in 1999. They have two daughters -- Grace, 11, and Chloe, 9.

Rupert Murdoch's representative said he filed for divorce from his third wife because the "relationship between husband and wife has broken down irretrievably."

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