‘Better be my last’: 92-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time
Rupert Murdoch met his new fiancee Ann Lesley Smith last year at an event he hosted at his vineyard in California.
Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time at age 92, he said Monday in an interview with his own newspaper, the New York Post.
Murdoch is engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former San Francisco police chaplain and the widow of American country singer and media executive Chester Smith.
“I was very nervous. I was afraid of falling in love – but I knew it would be my last. It would be better,” he told the tabloid. “I am happy.”
Murdoch divorced his fourth wife, model Jerry Hall, last year after six years of marriage.
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Australian Murdoch, whose media empire includes The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and other influential media, is worth more than $20 billion, according to Forbes.
Murdoch met his new fiancée last year at an event he hosted at his California vineyard, and the pair soon decided to spend “the second half of our lives together,” the tycoon said.
“For perspective, this is not my first rodeo. Approaching 70 means being in the last half,” Smith said. “I’ve been waiting for the right time. My friends are happy for me.”
The wedding will take place this summer and the couple plan to split their time between the United States and Britain.
Murdoch, who has six children, was first married to Patricia Booker, an Australian flight attendant, whom he divorced in the late 1960s.
He and his second wife Anna, a newspaper reporter, were together for more than 30 years before divorcing in 1999. His third marriage to Wendi Deng ended in 2013.
