Day Two of the Rupert Murdorch-Wendi Deng divorce story turned juicier when

Day Two of the Rupert Murdorch-Wendi Deng divorce story turned juicier when ex-British prime minister and Deng pal Tony Blair got dragged into it.

Soon after news broke Thursday that billionaire media mogul Murdoch, 82, had filed for divorce from his third wife after 14 years of marriage, journalists in the U.S. and the U.K. with close contacts to Murdoch and his media empire, News Corp., began twittering about a scandalous possible reason for split.

Said scandal turned out to be the claim that Deng, 44, had an affair with Blair, 60, who happens to be godfather of the couple’s two young daughters, Grace, 11, and Chloe, 9.

And it’s only Day Two! These opening stages suggest this divorce will not be handled in the customary manner of divorces among the high-and-mighty — discreet, amicable and behind closed doors — predicts Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff today.

“This is not amicable, it’s totally public, it’s a throw-down-the-gauntlet, we-are-going-to-war kind of thing,” says Wolff, a columnist for USA TODAY, The Guardian and Vanity Fair.

If the Murdoch divorce turns protracted and nasty, it will be more difficult to cover, Wolff predicted, because so many key media outlets that news consumers rely on are owned by Murdoch.

BBC economics editor Robert Peston tweeted Thursday that he was told that “undisclosed reasons for Murdoch divorcing Deng are jaw-dropping – & hate myself for wanting to know what they are.”

Later, Wolff, the author of the Murdoch biography, The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World Of Rupert Murdoch, tweeted that “Rumor about the big B is everywhere except in print.”

So why is Murdoch divorcing her? We’ll soon find out!!!