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I’ll be Deng’d: Rupert Murdoch’s ex a Chinese spy?

By Becket Adams
Published January 16, 2018 9:44pm ET
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I’ll be Deng’d: Rupert Murdoch’s ex a Chinese spy?
Jared Kushner was allegedly warned earlier this year that Wendi Deng Murdoch might be using her friendship with Jared and Ivanka Trump to "further the interests of the Chinese government." (Photo by Luiz C. Ribeiro/Invision/AP) | Luiz C. Ribeiro

This may be the wildest story of 2018, and it’s only January 16.

Chinese-American businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch, who was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch for 14 years before splitting in 2013, may or may not be a Chinese spy, according to a Wall Street Journal report published this week.

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