Jessica Lingman Yu (born 1966 in Palo Alto, California) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has worked on documentaries, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breath

Vera Ellen Wang was born and raised in New York City, and is of Chinese descent. Her parents were born in Shanghai, China, and came to the United States in the mid-1940s. Her mother worked as a translator for the United Nations, while her father, Chen

She met her future husband, the Chinese-American cinematographer James Wong Howe, before World War II. They traveled to Paris in 1937 to marry, but their marriage was not recognized in California. They would not cohabit due to his traditional Chinese vie

Rupert Murdoch's third marriage to the much younger Wendi Deng caused comments such as "trophy wife" and "may-december marriages" when the couple married aboard a yacht in 1999 soon after his divorce from his long-lasting second marriage.