Is Rupert Murdoch Wendi Whipped?

By SDH With all his power and billions of dollars, one would think Rupert Murdoch can't be dominated. One would think he would have someone, especially his wife wrapped around his finger. Nope! According to GQ Magazine's "Most Whipped List", Rupert Murdoch is one of the most henpecked husbands on the planet. The list also includes former Time Warner boss Geri Levin. But GQ failed to include other whippees like Les Moonves, Sumner Redstone and Bob Iger. Wendi Deng was just another twentysomething MBA (and thirty-eight years his junior) when she netted the Aussie billionaire master of the universe, whom she seems to enjoy belittling in public. According to New York magazine, she's said to have revealed that he uses Viagra (but doesn't need it) and once asked him in front of colleagues, "Are you going deaf, old man?" In January, Deng got her mighty mogul to play waiter at a women's-empowerment event in Davos, Switzerland, much to the amusement of Murdoch watchers the world over. Then again, waiting on Deng has helped Murdoch gain access to the multibillion-dollar Chinese-media market, so who's using whom? Under the guidance of his new-wife-cum-guru, Laurie Perlman, the former CEO of Time Warner has remade himself into a New Age–spa keeper. He once described a drum circle at the couple’s Moonview Sanctuary as “a ritual, archetypal setting to get at the most fundamental questions of life.… Instead of a male hierarchy, it becomes almost feminine in its openness.” But hey, if you’d orchestrated one of the most disastrous mergers in business history, you’d seek inner peace, too.