Post date: Jul 20, 2011 6:42:34 PM
A Taiwanese animation house has immortalised Wendi Deng, characterising her as a tigress for the way in which she defended her husband, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, when a comedian splattered him with a foam pie during a British Parliamentary committee hearing.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN (JUNE 20, 2011) NEXT MEDIA ANIMATION - Wendi Deng, who caught the imagination of millions of television viewers when she rounded on a comedian who had splattered her husband, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, with a foam pie, has been charactereised as a tigress by a Taiwanese animation house.
The lithe 42-year-old third Mrs Murdoch is the latest inspiration for Next Animation, part of Taiwan's Next Media, which produces satirical takes on global news events, from Apple's iPhone antenna problems to Sarah Palin's public pronouncements.
The Yale University business school graduate, yoga devotee and former News Corp employee reacted faster than anyone else seated around Murdoch, including his son James, when a tense British Parliamentary committee hearing was interrupted on Tuesday (July 19) by a man throwing a shaving-cream pie at her 80-year-old husband.
She sprang from the seat behind her husband to smack the assailant, in a scene witnessed by millions around the world watching television coverage of the latest developments in the News of the World telephone hacking scandal.
The daughter of a factory director in Guangzhou, China, Deng joined News Corp's Star TV as an intern in 1996, shortly after gaining an MBA from Yale.
She met Murdoch in 1998, when she was a junior executive acting as his interpreter during a business trip to China. The pair married in 1999, after Murdoch divorced his wife of 31 years.