E-mail trail led Murdoch to suspect Wendi and Blair

LONDON - Remember Wendi Deng's fervent private note about Tony Blair's "good body"?

According to Mail Online, there is more where that came from: a cache of e-mail that lit up her then husband Rupert Murdoch's suspicions about her relationship with his then friend, the former British prime minister.

The British newspaper said 300 pages of the e-mail were found, along with the note, when the 82-year-old newspaper tycoon filed for divorce last year.

It quoted a source as saying of the e-mail messages: "If it was my wife, I would be furious."

It said Ms Deng's feelings for Mr Blair were clear in the messages sent from her newscorp.com e-mail address to him and others. He replied to many of them.

But a source friendly with Mr Blair said: "Ms Deng was assisting with Mr Blair's Foundation and he is godfather to one of her children. It would be odd if they didn't exchange e-mail. They were not intimate."

In the first place, it was possibly an e-mail by Ms Deng, 45, that went out to the wrong recipient and gave away her meetings with Mr Blair, 60, said the Mail.

In her now infamous note, which was found in Mr Murdoch's home in Carmel, California, she also said Mr Blair's adviser, former 10 Downing Street official Catherine Rimmer, wanted him to stay away from her, reported the newspaper.

Part of the note reportedly read: "Katherine (sic) Rimmer does not like me because she does not want Tony gets (sic) in trouble with me."

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