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Meet Wendi Deng's new beau Bertold Zahoran, a model 64 years Rupert's junior

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 Since divorcing the now 85-year-old Rupert Murdoch in 2013, after 13 years of marriage, it's clear that businesswoman Wendi Deng has been living her best life.

When rumours weren't circulating about her dance card in 2016 (she supposedly dated Vladimir Putin and Tony Blair), Deng won the year with her own Eat, Pray, Love journey that peaked when she attended the famous Burning Man festival.

And now Deng has opted to take her relationship age gap in the opposite direction, with the 48-year-old reportedly dating 21-year-old Hungarian model Bertold Zahoran since last May.

The New Year brought a new level of visibility to their romance, with the pair photographed holding hands and hugging while vacationing in St. Bart's last week. Both daughters from her relationship with Murdoch - Grace, 15, and Chloe, 13 - joined their mother on the holiday, along with model and friend of Deng, Karlie Kloss.

While Deng is yet to publicly confirm the relationship, Zahoran employed a typically millennial method of declaring his affection: making it "Instagram official."

Zahoran's image of the pair holding hands on holidays is just the latest photographic evidence confirming their budding romance.

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Among his modelling and fitness shots, Zahoran has also posted a snap of the two of them in fancy dress at a Halloween party and later at a New York exhibition in November. The duo were first photographed together at Naomi Campbell's birthday party back in May.

Early last year Deng also appeared at the Giambattista Valli show in Paris with 30-year-old violinist Charlie Siem. She confirmed to US Vogue that the March outing was a date. "Why not?" she said. "Am I supposed to be shy?"

Zahoran took the well-earned break with Deng after being hot property for high-end designer brands last year, but not before posing for a snap with his mum saying "goodbyes are never easy." The model walked runways for everyone from Balmain to Versace, appeared in numerous magazine editorials and he is an underwear model for Polo Ralph Lauren.

He may not have world changing powers like her previous partners but Zahoran is taking the fashion industry by storm, one runway and boxer brief at a time.

 

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