Ann Lesley Smith

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Rupert Murdoch Engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (Variety)

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.

As the head of News Corporation, he also owns the New York Post, in addition to the Wall Street Journal, The Sun and book publisher Harper Collins. In addition to Hall, Murdoch was previously married to Wendi Deng from 1999 to 2013; Anna Maria Torv from 1967 to 1999; and Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967. A spokesperson for Murdoch confirmed the engagement to Variety.

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 ...

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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 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, 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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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (The Straits Times)

Mr Murdoch and Ms Smith, 66, first met in September 2022 at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I dreaded falling in love but I knew this would be my last. “I was very nervous. Mr Murdoch and Ms Smith, 66, first met in September 2022 at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California, and he called her two weeks later, Mr Murdoch told the News Corporation-owned New York Post, which broke the news of the engagement.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (Reuters)

Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is engaged to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, his spokesperson confirmed on Monday, which will mark ...

Murdoch controls News Corp and Fox Corp through a Reno, Nevada-based family trust that holds roughly a 40% stake in voting shares of each company. I dreaded falling in love but I knew this would be my last. Smith is a widow whose late husband was Chester Smith, a country singer, radio and TV executive. “I was very nervous. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story [(FOXA.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/FOXA.O), the parent company of Fox News Channel, and News Corp.