Rupert Murdoch's Wife Also Shoved Shaving Cream Pie In Attacker's Face

Wendi Murdoch, protecting her old man (AP)

If there's one person to somehow look good from the disgusting News Corp. phone hacking scandal, it's Rupert Murdoch's third wife Wendi Deng Murdoch. She jumped to defend her 80-year-old husband who was the target of a shaving cream pie-holding prankster Jonathan May-Bowles (aka Jonnie Marbles), apparently slapping the man and even turning the tables on him. The Guardian reports, "Deng lunged while startled police officers were barely off the back foot. While a roomful of male advisers also appeared stunned, she scooped up the paper plate fired at her husband and launched it like a grenade back at May-Bowles, a comedian, with an amazing right hook. Such was the force of her shot that the foam directed at her husband's face landed on a police officer and on her own blue-painted toes."

And the Daily Telegraph recounts:

A former champion volleyball player, her fierce instincts propelled her to jump up quicker than anyone else in the room.
Using an open palm, she brought down a blow hard and with full fury on to Marbles' head, just as if she was spiking a volleyball.

The outraged Deng was much quicker than anyone else in the room, including James Murdoch, who was sitting next to his father, and police.

After the cameras were directed away from the action, leaving frustrated viewers able to see nothing but the abstract painting behind the MPs, she kept on her counter-offensive, pursuing the attacker and trying to turn the plate of foam back on him.

When Marbles was restrained by others, she turned back to her husband and gently cleared the foam from his face, trying to restore his dignity, and then embraced his head in her arms.

It's also noted that Wendi Deng Murdoch, 42, is 5'10".

WWD.com, which notes that she is Rupert Murdoch's "companion in both the business world -- where she’s advised on the disastrous acquisition of MySpace and lately dabbled in production work for News Corp.’s Twentieth Century Fox -- and the social circuit -- where the pair are black-tie regulars," asked some security consultants about her reflexes. A former Secret Service agent said, "She happened to be close by and notice it. Whether it’s her or you or me, your reaction is to try to prevent it. It was a valiant attempt on her part, but if it would have been a dangerous chemical, he would have been in a bind there."

There was supposed to be "airport-level" security at the hearing, but, of course, now there's going to be an inquiry on the breach.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 19, 2011 9:30 PM

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Razzy101

She is quick. Almost like as if she were part of a security team for her husband.

brwnmamba

can't wait to hear a rap song drop a Wendi reference - stand by your man woman!
B**** is fierce - my gays are loving some Wendi,
"She put the smack down wearing a pink Chanel blazer."

On this NOTW farce - if it wasn't owned by The Rupe, this stupid, tragic mistake would not be handled in this manner.

GregJG

Maybe she wanted to throw the pie in her hubby's face and that right should belong to here alone.

TheDoctorWhoCuresCancer

She's a keeper.

billy789

was she charged? because that was definitely not self defense. and far more violent.

roknrolla

This is England, silly.
They have an entirely different set of laws and procedures regarding arrests, etc.
To wit, Rebekah Brooks, the News of the World editor who was arrested over a week ago relative to the ongoing investigation, was only just charged with a crime yesterday.

economatronic

I cannot stop watching this. Cannot. Stop. I have been watching it on repeat since yesterday. Look of shock--Plaid Shirt comes in--OH SHIT WENDI'S THROWING DOWN! What a perfect little treat in an otherwise mindnumblingly dull piece of pointless farce.

Alana Roberts

She must be amazing at the Whack a Mole game!

Peanut_Butter

What would Anna Nicole Smith have done?

shocktheday

I'mma get me one of those, she'll come in handy when I take the 4 or 5 trains.

Peanut_Butter

She can work for Qaddafi.

RabbiLaFunque

You'd be one pissed off fightin' ninja hoe too if you were watching your gravy train go down in flames right before your very eyes.

randomtransplant

so...are you saying in a way this is all your fault?

carnidevour

Yep Jack-wagon--------- Mother Theresa sounds JUST like the conservatives! ROFFLMAO (stated completely dripping in sarcasm... in case you didn't catch that Jackie)

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It never was between you and them anyway.” - Mother Teresa-

robingee

It was shaving cream? Dang.

"One coconut custard pie with whipped cream!"
"Coconut custard pie with whipped cream coming up! Pick up pie!"
"Roger! Your pie sir!" (splat)

carnidevour

LMFAO all so stupid... Murdoch's wasting british taxpayers $$$ on all this and it will no doubt change nothing and next we get the elitist-bribing-lying-thugs here in the USSA to waste our tax $$$ in our corrupt system so they can all laugh it off--------right on back to their cushy offshore bank

JackBrat

Well now- It certainly advocates for an 80-year old guy marrying a woman half his age! Bravo, Ms Deng,God has his reasons for everything!

Mr Mel

I don't care what the story is, Gothamist Commenters will find a conspiracy theory for it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

randomtransplant

I can't decide if I think the people afraid that pity for an old man will hijack justice are brow-beaten, or pragmatic.

So she has the reflexes of a jerry springer guest. whoop-te-do