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Murdoch, along with his son James and his protegee Rebekah Brooks, went before Parliament today to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal that continues to bring down News Corp. executives. When Rupert Murdoch's testimony was winding down, a protestor lurched toward him intending to throw a pie into his face--but while the pie was still aloft, Deng jumped to her feet, slapped the attacker, and then picked up the pie plate to try to hit the protestor--who operates a Twitter account under the name Jonnie Marbles--with his own baked weapon, according to the Telegraph's James Kirkup. At the tail end of the Murdochs' testimony, one committee member said, "Mr. Murdoch, your wife has a very good left hook.
Today's episode marks just one occasion in which Wendi Deng could be described as hard-charging. Born Deng Wen Di in China in 1968, she moved to the United States on a student visa in 1988 to live with a California couple. The couple divorced two years later, and Deng briefly married the husband, Jake Cherry.
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