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Rupert Murdoch has quality of his ain to share: He's acceptable to locomotion down the aisle again.
Seven months aft finalizing his divorcement from ex-wife Jerry Hall, the billionaire, 92, announced helium is engaged to erstwhile San Francisco constabulary chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, 66. As Rupert—who projected connected St. Patrick's Day—noted, helium was "very nervous" to popular the question to his now-fiancée.
"I dreaded falling successful love—but I knew this would beryllium my last," Rupert, who has antecedently been joined 4 times, told the New York Post. "It amended be. I'm happy."
As Ann explained, they came into each other's lives astatine the cleanable moment.
"I'm a widow 14 years," she told the publication, which is owned by Rupert's institution News Corporation. "Like Rupert, my hubby was a businessman. Worked for section papers, developed vigor and TV stations and helped beforehand Univision. So, I talk Rupert's language. We stock the aforesaid beliefs."
When it comes to the couple's future, which volition see a wedding this summer, Rupert noted they couldn't beryllium happier, adding, "We're some looking guardant to spending the 2nd fractional of our lives together."
In June 2022, the media mogul and Jerry called it quits aft six years of marriage. The brace finalized their divorcement conscionable 2 months later, their attorneys antecedently confirmed to the Los Angeles Times.
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Rupert's archetypal travel down the aisle was erstwhile helium wed Patricia Booker, with whom helium shares daughter Prudence, with the 2 splitting 9 years later. Additionally, helium is besides dada to kids Elizabeth, James and Lachlan, with his 2nd wife Anna Murdoch. (They divorced successful 1999 aft 32 years of marriage.)
Later that year, Rupert tied the knot for the 3rd time, marrying Wendi Murdoch. The two, who stock daughters Chloe and Grace, divided successful 2013 aft astir 14 years of marriage.
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