Hot Deng! Murdoch Lands on 'Most Whipped' List

Is there something about being a media titan that makes one excessively, er, considerate of one's spouse? GQ seems to think so. A goodly number of the gents on its definitive ranking of "the twenty-five most emasculated, disempowered, henpecked husbands on the planet" hail from the spheres of news and entertainment.

Here's what GQ has to say about No. 8, Rupert Murdoch, and his current wife, Wendi Deng:

[S]he's said to have revealed that he uses Viagra (but doesn't need it) and once asked him in front of colleagues, "Are you going deaf, old man?" In January, Deng got her mighty mogul to play waiter at a women's-empowerment event in Davos, Switzerland, much to the amusement of Murdoch watchers the world over. Then again, waiting on Deng has helped Murdoch gain access to the multibillion-dollar Chinese-media market, so who's using whom?

Gerald Levin (No. 17) got in touch with his inner goddess thanks to New Age spouse Laurie Perlman, while Larry King (No. 23) backs his sixth wife's country-music career. Also on the list are Howard Stern (No. 9), Jack Welch (No. 16) and Sergey Brin (No. 19).