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.

Rupert Murdoch Is Engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (Vanity Fair)

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 ...

[2023 Oscar Winners](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/03/2023-oscars-winners-list?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723) [Vanity Fair Oscar Party](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/03/how-to-watch-2023-vanity-fair-oscar-party?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723)Red Carpet [This Year’s Oscar Red Carpet](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2023/03/oscars-2023-red-carpet-all-the-fashion-outfits-and-looks?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723) The pair wed in Australia in 1956 when Murdoch was just 25 years old and divorced 11 years later. The pair first met in 1997 when Deng worked at Murdoch's Star TV station in Hong Kong, and they had two children together, 21-year-old Grace and 19-year-old Chloe, before divorcing in 2014. I waited for the right time. [Vanity Fair Oscar Party](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/03/2023-vanity-fair-oscar-party-report?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723)With Everyone, All at Once Last year when there was 200 people at my vineyard, I met her and we talked a bit. And most recently, the billionaire married supermodel Jerry Hall in 2016 shortly before his 85th birthday. Murdoch, who has owned the columnist’s employer, the New York Post, since 1976, commemorated both Saint Patrick’s Day and his birth month by asking Smith to be his wife with an Asscher-cut solitaire diamond that he personally selected, explaining that he chose the date because “I’m one-fourth Irish.” He added, “I was very nervous. We share the same beliefs. Smith, who was formerly the San Francisco police chaplain and wife of the late country singer and TV executive Chester Smith, told the outlet that their relationship, “For us both, it's a gift from God.

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.

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.

Rupert Murdoch engaged (Crow River Media)

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

Failed Marriage Specialist Rupert Murdoch Is Officially Engaged Again (Yahoo)

Stefan Wermuth/ReutersRupert Murdoch has revealed that he's engaged to Ann Lesley Smith just six months after the pair first met.

Rupert Murdoch Engaged to Ann Lesley Smith Less Than a Year ... (Yahoo News Canada)

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.

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 proposed to Ann Lesley Smith on St. Pat's Day (Los Angeles Times)

Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old billionaire media mogul behind Fox News and News Corp., is tying the knot again. Fifth time's the charm?

“She and her husband also owned a vineyard and had been in the wine business,” he said. “Last year when there was 200 people at my vineyard, I met her and we talked a bit. I’m happy.”](https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/rupert-murdoch-engaged-to-ann-lesley-smith/) [Rupert Murdoch did not believe the 2020 election was ‘stolen,’ despite what you heard on Fox News](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-07/rupert-murdoch-did-not-believe-the-2020-election-was-stolen-despite-what-you-heard-on-fox-news) The two married and recorded a 13-track country album together in 2005 called “ “Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. “I’m a widow 14 years,” she continued. Huntington, an attorney whom she said was “a descendant of one of California’s pioneering railroad families.” The marriage allegedly turned abusive, and Smith was left penniless and homeless when they divorced. I waited for the right time. [Jerry Hall](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-06-22/rupert-murdoch-jerry-hall-divocring-after-six-years-marriage), the model and actor who shares four children with Mick Jagger. “I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last. Fifth time’s the charm?

Rupert Murdoch, 92, announces engagement to Ann Lesley Smith (The Hill)

Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old media mogul, announced on Monday that he was getting married for the fifth time, he told the New York Post after proposing ...

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Rupert Murdoch: Umuherwe w'imyaka 92 ufite ibinyamakuru ... (BBC News)

Murdoch w'imyaka 92, na Smith w'imyaka 66, bahuye muri Nzeri ishize ahantu akorera ubuhinzi bw'imizabibu, nyuma y'uko Murdoch atanye n'uwari umugore we.

Murdoch yabwiye ikinyamakuru New York Post, kimwe mu bye, ati: “Natekerezaga urukundo – ariko mbizi ko ruzaba ari rwo rwa nyuma. Murdoch yatangaje ko yasabye Ann Lesley kuzamubera umugore ku munsi wa Mutagatifu Patrick, yongeraho ko icyo gikorwa “cyanteye igihunga”. Byaba byiza ari rwo.

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.

Dominion wants Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify at trial, court ... (CNN)

Dominion wants to put Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch on the witness stand at next month's expected defamation trial against Fox News, ...

The filings unearthed a trove of communications between network executives and its most popular hosts, revealing that the right-wing talk channel, was willing to lie to its viewers. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he added. Davis told both sides that “I need to be educated” on their arguments for summary judgment, the primary purpose of Tuesday’s hearing. “I’m not the Supreme Court, so I don’t have a clock up here, and I’m not going to cut you off… Dominion is suing Fox News over the right-wing channel’s airing of false claims of election fraud around the 2020 presidential election. The court filings have offered the most vivid picture to date of the chaos that transpired behind the scenes at Fox News after Trump lost the election. Sullivan, legal experts told CNN that Dominion’s case appeared unusually strong. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].” It claims Dominion hasn’t shown anything strong enough to overcome the high bar that the First Amendment provides, protecting good-faith journalists from speech-chilling defamation lawsuits. Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, are resisting these efforts, which also include an attempt to compel testimony from Fox Corporation chief legal officer Viet Dinh and board member Paul Ryan, the former House speaker. No one will work with her. Don’t be stressed that I’ll cut you off on a time basis.”

Rupert Murdoch, 92, to marry for the 5th time: 'I knew this would be ... (Globalnews.ca)

Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is set to marry Ann Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain, in summer 2023.

[divorce](https://people.com/style/rupert-murdoch-and-jerry-hall-finalize-divorce-reports/) was finalized in August. “I was very nervous,” he said. Most recently, he married model Jerry Hall in 2016. The couple divorced in 2013. Murdoch, who said he is “one-fourth Irish,” proposed in New York City on St. He told the outlet that he met Smith, a former police chaplain, at his California vineyard last September.

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