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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged to Ann Lesley Smith (New York Post)

Rupert Murdoch. Professionally, the parent of Earth's media. Personally, the creator of new news himself. Celebrating March, his Nativity month, a new scoop ...

Red in the face arguing? Barf Biden’s on the cover. Rupert on meeting at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, Calif.: “She and her husband also owned a vineyard and had been in the wine business. I waited for the right time. He says: “I’m one-fourth Irish.” He presented the ring to her on St. Personally, the creator of new news himself.

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Rupert Murdoch engaged (Crow River Media)

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

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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?

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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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Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch's new fiance has ties to California's ... (Fresno Bee)

Ann Lesley Smith learned media in Modesto, California, from her husband, radio & TV icon Chester Smith. She hosted a morning radio talk show.

“A graduate of Idaho State University, she’s been a runway model, songwriter and recording artist (she and Chester recorded a 2005 CD, “Captured by Love”) and San Francisco Bay Area radio personality and journalist,” Farrow wrote after their 2017 interview. He told The Post that he called her two weeks later, and proposed Friday. This will be his fifth marriage, [The Hollywood Reporter says](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/rupert-murdoch-engaged-ann-lesley-smith-1235356622/). “She’s lived the high life, she said, and still could, but chose to stay in Modesto after her husband died in August 2008. … A lot of people haven’t gone through a lot, and they pontificate on stuff they’ve read in a book.” Some locals will recall that Ann Lesley Smith a few years ago had her own radio program here at AM 1360 KFIV.

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