Ann Lesley Smith

Rupert Murdoch just can't stay single. Less than a year after divorcing Jerry Hall, the 92-year-old Fox mogul is hearing wedding bells again.

As the head of News Corporation, he also owns the New York Post, in addition to the Wall Street Journal, The Sun and book publisher Harper Collins. In addition to Hall, Murdoch was previously married to Wendi Deng from 1999 to 2013; Anna Maria Torv from 1967 to 1999; and Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967. A spokesperson for Murdoch confirmed the engagement to Variety.

The billionaire said that he “dreaded falling in love” again after recently getting divorced from his fourth wife Jerry Hall, but “knew this would be [his] last ...

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Rupert Murdoch is engaged, his rep confirmed Monday. The media titan met his now-fiancée in September, and the couple plans to wed in the summer.

[Murdoch and Hall](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2016/01/12/rupert-murdoch-announces-engagement-jerry-hall/78670810/) finalized their divorce in August after six years of marriage, Murdoch's attorney Robert S. [Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall divorce after 6 years of marriage](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/08/11/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-divorce/7704579001/) I dreaded falling in love – but I knew this would be my last. We share the same beliefs." "So I speak Rupert’s language. "Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman.

The 92-year-old met Smith just one month after his divorce from his fourth wife, Jerry Hall was finalized.

He admitted to deciding to call Smith two weeks after they first met and had "talked for a bit" at the vineyard. "When Chester was dying, he said, 'Honey, you're now me.' And it took some time to figure that out," Smith told California newspaper The Modesto Bee. He would lock me out of the house. It's the kind of marriage anybody would have loved to have had," she told the Christian Broadcasting Network. She was married to her second husband, Chester Smith, until his death of heart failure in 2008. We share the same beliefs," she told the New York Post. I'm happy," Murdoch told the New York Post. "We're both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together." "During the day he would shower gifts on me and praise. Murdoch, who was married to supermodel "I was very nervous. The 92-year-old proposed to Ann Lesley Smith, 66, on St.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged for the fifth time, less than a year after his divorce from Jerry Hall. The 92-year billionaire revealed he had ...

The wedding is scheduled to take place this summer. That marriage lasted 14 years until their divorce in 2013. Mr Murdoch proposed in New York on St Patrick’s Day, joking that he is “one-fourth Irish”. Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. She said: “I’m a widow 14 years. I dreaded falling in love, but I knew this would be my last.