As a rule of thumb, sneakers with suits are a terrible idea. Unless, perhaps, you are billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 93, who – seeming to chase Elizabeth Taylor’s lifetime tally of eight marriages – married his fifth wife last weekend in a ceremony at his Tuscan-style vineyard in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles.

Murdoch’s new bride, Elena Zhukova, 67, is a retired molecular biologist who was previously married to Alexander Zhukov, a billionaire Russian energy investor.