In March this year, the 84-year-old media tycoon Rupert Murdoch held a wedding with his supermodel girlfriend Jerry Hall, clearing away the cloud of divorce from Wendi Deng. When being secretly photographed by reporters, Murdoch was in a good mood and deliberately rolled down his car window to let reporters take photos of himself and his newlywed wife.

But just as the media tycoon was embracing a new life, his staff revealed in a new book that Murdoch was overwhelmed by Wendi Deng's "intimate relationship" with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and was "unable to sleep."

Chris Mitchell, the former editor-in-chief of The Australian, a newspaper owned by News Corporation, will release a new book "Exclusive Headlines" on the 15th. The book mentions the sad history of Murdoch's divorce from Wendi Deng.

Mitchell wrote in the book:

"In the first few months after the two separated, Murdoch obviously felt lonely and had trouble sleeping at night. He called people more often than before, and admitted that he could not sleep and had back pain. He said he felt hurt after knowing what happened to Wendi Deng and Blair."

The book also writes:

"My boss was devastated by the intimacy between his wife and his friend. I never asked him what was going on, but it was obvious that the domestic servants knew what was going on in the house when Murdoch was away and alerted his family in Australia."

Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng officially divorced in November 2013, ending their 14-year marriage. They have two daughters together, one of whom Blair is the godfather to.

Murdoch and Blair met in the 1990s. The two slowly became good friends from non-aggressive allies during Blair's 10 years as British Prime Minister.

According to media reports, when the United States invaded Iraq, it was Murdoch who had been urging Blair to express support for the United States.

A reporter under the Murdoch Media Group once attacked Blair in an article. He also admitted that "Murdoch likes Blair very much."

Although Murdoch once allowed his "Sun" newspaper to attack his European policy with the title "Traitor Blair", afterwards, the media tycoon still stated that Blair "is a friend of mine."

In 2010, in order to express their deep friendship, Murdoch successfully persuaded Blair to become the godfather of his 8-year-old daughter.

However, with the exposure of the eavesdropping scandal at Murdoch's News of the World, the friendship between the two also came to an end.

In July 2011, "Wei"News of the World" revealed that in order to obtain exclusive news, the News of the World did not hesitate to hire a private detective to eavesdrop on a kidnapped girl's mobile phone, and also misled the police in the rescue operation.

Since then, the eavesdropping scandal has escalated like a snowball, and thousands of people, including political figures, royal family members, and celebrities, have been involved.

While London police investigated the News of the World, Murdoch's own investigators conducted an internal probe into millions of emails on Murdoch's corporate computers.

According to media reports, it was during this internal investigation that staff discovered that Wendi Deng had "close contacts" with many people, including a tennis coach, Eric Schmidt, one of the founders of Google, and Blair, who had retired at the time.

"Vanity Fair" published an article in 2014, saying that it obtained a nymphomaniac note written by Wendi Deng to herself in these emails, and the content was about Blair. This report can no longer be opened.

The article said that Wendi Deng wrote in the note: "Why I miss Blair so much, because he is so charming and his clothes are so beautiful." The note said that Blair has a good figure, "I love his blue eyes, I also love his aura on stage, and what else...".

The report said there were also notes showing that Blair had met Wendi Deng privately in New York, London and other places.

Afterwards, the "Daily Mail" stated that Murdoch asked the family servant about Blair and knew that Blair had spent the night at his home on April 27, 2013, but Blair himself did not mention this incident.

The servant said that Blair and Wendi Deng fed each other during meals, and that Blair entered Wendi Deng's bedroom and then closed the door.

Murdoch mentioned relevant reports in an interview with Fortune magazine in April 2014.

He said that "everyone was talking about it, but no one told me anything." "I learned something when I was in Australia. After returning to the United States, I asked the maid at home, and then the news came out." "A week later, I filed for divorce."

As for the notes written by Wendi Deng that were exposed by the media, Murdoch said that he was "shocked", but he did not see these notes until after filing for divorce.

In the interview, Murdoch mentioned that he had a bad time in early 2014. "I fell down in a hotel in San Francisco and hit my head on the ground," and then went back to the farm to rest for three weeks.

Regarding the scandal that year, Blair has always denied having an affair with Wendi Deng, and friends of Wendi Deng and Blair also insisted that the two were just friends.

In December 2014, The Economist conducted an exclusive interview with Blair. In the interview, the reporter hinted at the rumors between him and Wendi Deng and asked him if he was "too indifferent to his reputation."

Blair replied: "I will never discuss this issue, not before and never will in the future." The interview article wrote that after saying this, Blair "threw the coffee cup on the tray with a loud noise, the coffee spilled out, and everyone else in the room was shocked."

Regardless of the truth, the friendship between Blair and Murdoch that lasted for more than 10 years ended completely.

News Corp staff said Blair called Murdoch when Murdoch filed for divorce, and Murdoch said Blair gave "politician" answers to his questions. Murdoch never spoke to Blair again.

Not talking was only a small part of the breakdown in the relationship between the two. After that, Murdoch stopped funding Blair's "Faith Foundation" and cut off contact with some other funders.

American millionaire Tim Collins, one of the directors of the foundation, also withdrew from the board of directors, taking away a large amount of funds invested in the foundation.

As for Murdoch now, Mitchell said in the book that he is "much happier" now that he is married because his new wife, Hall, is a "down to earth" woman.