Rupert Murdoch is engaged again

His fourth marriage to model Jerry Hall ended in 2022 after six years. He has six children.

The marriage is unlikely to impact the future holdings of both media empires, which are controlled through a family trust. There are eight votes. Upon his death, all votes would be transferred to his four eldest children, Prudence, Lachlan, James and Elizabeth.

He married his first wife, flight attendant Patricia Booker, in 1956, with whom he had his eldest child, Prudence. In 1967, he married Daily Mirror reporter Anna Torv, mother to Lachlan, James and Elizabeth. Their marriage was Murdoch’s longest before the pair split in 1998 and later divorced in 1999.

Less than three weeks after the divorce, Murdoch married 29-year-old Wendi Deng, with whom he had Chloe and Grace. The pair split in 2013. Murdoch later married former supermodel Jerry Hall in 2016 in London, a week before his 85th birthday.

Murdoch is due to visit Australia for the first time since 2018 in July, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his News Corp masthead The Australian. He was due to return in February alongside the entire News Corp board; however, the trip was postponed due to scheduling clashes.

He has faced health issues across the past decade. According to a book by American author Michael Wolff, he could not attend his sister Anna Kantor’s funeral in Australia in 2022 due to a health problem.

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