Rupert Murdoch

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Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time at 92: 'I knew this would be my ... (The Guardian)

Billionaire mogul will marry Ann Lesley Smith, 66, whom he met in September of 2022. 'We share the same beliefs,' Smith says.

But he denied that Fox News itself had endorsed the narrative. A lot of people haven’t gone through a lot, and they pontificate on stuff they’ve read in a book.” A trial is scheduled to start on 17 April in Delaware. The pair met when she was working as a prison chaplain. Smith told the New York Post: “I’m a widow 14 years. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch said.

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Rupert Murdoch Engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (Variety)

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.

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, engaged to Ann Lesley Smith following fourth ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

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.

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, to marry for fifth time after confirming ... (Sky News)

Rupert Murdoch is set to marry for a fifth time after becoming engaged to his girlfriend, Ann Lesley Smith. The 92-year-old joked "it better be" his last ...

I waited for the right time. Former San Francisco police chaplain Ms Smith, whose late husband was country musician Chester Smith, said: "For us both it's a gift from God. Announcing the engagement in the New York Post, which is owned by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation, he said: "I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last. I'm a widow 14 years. Getting near 70 means being in the last half.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged to be married for fifth time (Financial Times)

Ownership of Murdoch family trust expected to be unaffected by union with widow of former radio and TV executive.

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Rupert Murdoch set to marry for fifth time at 92 (BBC News)

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to his partner Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain. Mr Murdoch, 92, and Ms Smith, 66, ...

"I'm a widow of 14 years. I'm happy." [The businessman told the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/rupert-murdoch-engaged-to-ann-lesley-smith/), one of his own publications: "I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged (Crow River Media)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has got engaged to Ann Lesley Smith after six months of dating.

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Rupert Murdoch is engaged to marry Ann Lesley Smith (CNN)

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is preparing to walk down the aisle for the fifth time.

They divorced in August last year. In 2016, he married his fourth wife, former model Jerry Hall, at St. “I was very nervous,” Murdoch said of their whirlwind romance. “I dreaded falling in love – but I knew this would be my last. Smith was previously married to Chester Smith, a country singer and radio and TV executive, who died in 2008. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch said.

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Rupert Murdoch, 92, will wed for a fifth time after proposing to Ann ... (Tatler)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, hasn't given up on love. He proposed to girlfriend Smith, 66, on St Patrick's Day.

[finalised their divorce](https://www.tatler.com/article/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-finalise-divorce) in August 2022, a month before he met Smith and a year after they were last seen together in public. It marked the fourth marriage for Murdoch, but the first for Hall (she had a Hindu wedding ceremony in Bali with her former partner, Mick Jagger, in 1990, but the ‘marriage’ was later declared invalid under both Indonesian and English law). [Paparazzi snaps, Rupert Murdoch and how a public showmance could pave the perfect path for a billionaire comeback](/article/rupert-murdoch-ann-lesley-smith-paparazzi-showmance) Murdoch, a father-of-six, met Smith, a former police chaplain and the widow of late country music singer Chester Smith, at his vineyard in Bel Air, California, last September. The billionaire media mogul added he was ‘nervous’ and is confident this marriage will be his ‘last’. After four divorces, many would have given up on the promise of marriage.

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Old romantic: the many wives of Rupert Murdoch (Evening Standard)

Once bitten, twice shy does not apply to the 92-year-old media tycoon who is engaged for the fifth time. Martha Alexander charts the billionaire romantic's ...

Murdoch took, by his own standards at least, a breather between his divorce with Deng and getting back into the saddle for his courtship with supermodel Hall. Murdoch was tickled pink by his 59-year-old bride, whose former long term partner and father of her four children is Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, tweeting that he felt “like the luckiest AND happiest man in the world. They remain good friends and wish each other the best for the future”. Deng moved in with the family and had an affair with Jake. This marked the end of the Cherry marriage and the start of Deng’s first which lasted a matter of months, during which time Deng got her green card. Born Deng Wen Ge in the province of Jiangsu on China’s east coast, her parents were members of the Communist Party and money was in short supply. . . He falls in and out of love at a rate rivalled only by King Henry VIII (although with much less brutal consequences for his ex wives). The couple managed 11 years of marriage during which time they had daughter, Prudence (she is now a board member of Times Newspapers). After returning to the US, Cherry and her husband Jake sponsored Deng to study at California State University. Of his engagement to Smith he said, “I was very nervous. He’s an unlikely romantic, and yet billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has put a ring on it for the fifth time aged 92.

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