Us Weekly reported a "new couple alert" Thursday that almost seems too good to be true: "The rumor circulating around the corridors of power — from Washington, D.C., to Europe and Asia — is that Vladimir Putin and Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife, are dating," the tabloid proclaims.
While the Russian president has repeatedly denied the rumors that have supposedly been "floating around for years, ever since their respective divorces in 2014 and 2013," Us Weekly maintains that the couple's relationship is quite "serious."
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