So, three months and 10,000 words later, the Eric Ellis profile of Wendi Deng got killed by editors at Good Weekend, the magazine insert of the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. (Both papers are owned by Fairfax Media, which Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. owned a 7.5 percent stake in until he sold it last week.) The timing of the piece being killed—some suspect Murdoch, but no one knows—also coincided roughly with Murdoch's bid for the Wall Street Journal, which led to all the predictable hand-wringing over what he might do to the Journal if his bid goes through. What also no one knows—yet, at least; the Deng profile will be published on June 6 in Australia's The Monthly—is what's in the piece.

We certainly presume it's stuff about the nature of Murdoch and Deng's relationship (although it's been reported that the piece is not "sensationalised"). But before reading the piece, one thing we're curious about: After being treated for prostate cancer in 2000, how, exactly, did Murdoch manage to immediately get some babies going?

In April 2000, News Corp. announced that Murdoch had prostate cancer, and would be undergoing radiation therapy as treatment. Murdoch and Deng had the first of their two children, Grace, in November 2001. (They would have another child, Chloe, in July 2003.) Radiation therapy "nearly always" impairs fertility. So, fine—maybe they banked it? That's not unusual.

Anyway, that fits, as Wendi's always seemed a bit impatient—she married her sponsor in the U.S. when she was very young, and, according to his spurned wife, began the affair with him while he was still married. That didn't last long or go particularly well, it seems. (And Rupert's not so patient either; seventeen days after Murdoch got his own divorce, he married Deng.)

Or maybe there's nothing! A News Corp. flacked called the profile "dull." So on the flip side, as an elite handful of women know, any younger wife of a billionaire mogul comes under close, annoying, and sometimes unfair scrutiny. Not participating with the profile, and maybe even getting it killed, is probably exactly what we'd do if we owned the media!

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