Rupert Murdoch unexpectedly breaks off his engagement to his fifth ex-wife

Just two weeks ago, we learned of billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s impending marriage to Anne Leslie Smith, a former San Francisco police chaplain. The owner of the influential News Corp media group said New York Post (owned media). The 92-year-old, who is worth $17.3 billion, said he proposed in New York on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, wearing an Asher-cut diamond engagement ring. which he personally chose. “I was very nervous, then she confided in social columnist Cindy Adams (also 92). I was afraid of falling in love, but I knew it would be my last time. It would be better.”

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However, the state of grace will be short-lived. According to an American magazine Vanity Fair , quoting Indigenous Australian Rupert Murdoch’s entourage on his engagement; While the wedding was supposed to take place at the end of the summer, the media mogul ended up feeling uncomfortable with his future wife’s (extremely) pro-evangelical stance. Ann Leslie Smith, 66, found faith after a depressive episode caused by wealthy attorney John B. After a chaotic first marriage to Huntington that was alcoholic and violent.

Love at first sight in Bel Air

Rupert Murdoch and Ann Leslie Smith begin dating in September at the Moraga Vineyard in Bel Air, California. “He [Ann Lesley] and his [deuxième] husband (deceased, editor’s note) He also owned a vineyard and worked in the wine business, he recalled New York Post. Last year, when there were 200 people in my garden, I met him and we talked a little. A few words are enough to create love at first sight. “It’s a godsend for both of us,” enthused the former Mrs Murdoch-to-be a few weeks ago. “We are both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” added the businessman, who has been married four times and is the father of six.

4 marriages, 4 divorces

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 from 1956 to 1967 to Australian broadcaster Patricia Booker, then for more than thirty years, until 1999, to British journalist Anna Mann. the latter will amount to more than one billion dollars after the divorce. to the then press. A few days later, he married Wendy Deng, a Chinese businesswoman and a graduate of Yale University. The couple broke up in New York in 2013. Then, in 2016, she said yes to Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger’s model and former partner, from whom she officially split in August 2022.

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