The billionaire owner of the influential News Corp media group is engaged for the fifth time at the age of 92 to the 66-year-old former San Francisco police chaplain.
That’s a scoop New York Post 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch is getting married… for the fifth time. The lucky winner is none other than Ann Leslie Smith, 66, a former San Francisco police chaplain. The pair have only known each other for a few months, but are already moving fast. The $17.3 billion media mogul proposed in New York City on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, wearing an Asher-cut diamond engagement ring he chose himself. “I was very nervous,” she told social columnist Cindy Adams (92), too. I was afraid of falling in love, but I knew it would be my last time. It would be better.”
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Meeting in the vineyards
Since then, everyone has been trying to find out more about the mysterious lover of the Australian-American businessman. Especially since Rupert Murdoch only divorced his fourth wife, American model Jerry Hall, in August 2022, after six years of marriage. the time PostThe press mogul revealed some details about the birth of his idyll with his new bride. Specifically, we learn that their meeting began in September at the Moraga Vineyard in Bel Air, California, owned by… Rupert Murdoch. “He [Ann Lesley] and her husband (deceased, editor’s noteHe also owned a vineyard and worked in the wine business, he recalled. Last year, when there were 200 people in my garden, I met him and we talked for a while. A few words are enough. The billionaire immediately fell in love. “Two weeks later, I called him.”
Those who think of Ann Leslie Smith as a “diamond digger” may be wrong. Before Rupert Murdoch, the American had a busy and rather secular life. A former San Francisco police chaplain, she is the widow of businessman and country music star Chester Smith, who died of a heart attack in 2008 at the age of 78.
an overnight multi-millionaire
Before Chester Smith, Ann Leslie Smith was first married to a wealthy attorney, John B. with Huntington. He is 47 years old and comes from one of California’s railroad pioneer families. She is 28 years old, graduated from Idaho State University and is starting a career as an oral hygienist. Their union makes Anne Leslie Smith a multi-millionaire overnight. At the time, she was “easily” spending $65,000 a month on clothes and spending her days enjoying her life. “My life has been a lot of fun. John loved cars and we had a stable full of all kinds of cars, exotic Ferraris and everything,” he told the channel. DailyMail: .
Only this marriage turns into a drama. John begins to drink, excessively. And becomes violent with his wife. “He abused me physically, mentally, emotionally,” said Ann Leslie Smith. The couple separates, and the American woman ends up homeless, living on social assistance. “I really wanted to kill myself. my life just sucked,” she later told CBN. “Everything was too much. I figured if I drove my car into someone else’s car really fast, I could end it. So I was driving recklessly. I wanted it to happen [mais] failed.”
To make ends meet, Ann Leslie Smith multiplies odd jobs and modeling contracts. It was during one of these modeling jobs that her life changed (again). The event organizer takes him to a coffee shop and gives him a copy of a religious book (Four spiritual laws, Ed.) The young woman “involuntarily” takes him home and there is a revelation. “I began to walk with God, and the things of the world just seemed useless to me.” Her faith leads her on the path to her second husband, Chester Smith. The couple met when Ann Leslie Smith was employed by the San Francisco Police Department as a volunteer chaplain. Post that she is leaving soon to start a new career as a radio host and record some songs with her husband.
“Gift from God”
Everything was going well for Chester Smith… Until his sudden death in 2008. Widowed Anne Leslie Smith no longer appears as a couple. That’s without considering Rupert Murdoch, with whom she eventually fell in love. “It’s a godsend for both of us,” the future Mrs Murdoch enthuses in the column. New York Post. “We are both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” adds the tycoon, who has been married four times and is the father of six.
The wedding ceremony is planned for the end of summer. After which the “young” couple will have to divide their time between California, United Kingdom, Montana and New York.
And five!
Rupert Murdoch, whose ability to appreciate Forbes: more than $17 billion, owns hundreds of media outlets, especially in the United States with companies that control the influential Fox News TV channel, the economic daily newspaper. The Wall Street Journal and the correctly listed New York tabloid, New York Post. He is also the boss in the United Kingdom Sun and: Times London and Australian newspapers.
The billionaire was first married to Australian broadcaster Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967 and then to British journalist Anna Mann for more than 30 years until 1999. the latter earns more than a billion dollars after the divorce, according to the press at the time. A few days later, he married Chinese-born businesswoman Wendy Deng, a graduate of Yale University, before their divorce in New York in 2013. Then in 2016, she said yes to Jerry Hall, whom she officially divorced in August 2022. This time he announced that his marriage to Ann Leslie Smith would be his last.
Source: Le Figaro
