Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is getting ready to stroll down the aisle for the fifth time.
The 92-year-old tycoon revealed he is engaged to marry Ann Lesley Smith in an article printed Monday in The New York Publish, one in every of his personal publications.
Murdoch instructed gossip columnist Cindy Adams that he met his soon-to-be spouse, former police chaplain Ann Lesly Smith, in September when she visited his winery, the Moraga Property, in Bel Air, California.
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“I used to be very nervous,” Murdoch mentioned of their whirlwind romance. “I dreaded falling in love – however I knew this could be my final. It higher be. I am comfortable.”
The Information Corp founder proposed with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire in New York on St Patrick’s Day, as a result of he’s “one-fourth Irish.”
The pair intend to get hitched in late summer time this yr. “We’re each wanting ahead to spending the second half of our lives collectively,” Murdoch mentioned.
Smith was beforehand married to Chester Smith, a rustic singer and radio and TV govt, who died in 2008.
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The 66-year-old bride-to-be mentioned she and Murdoch, whose empire consists of shops like Fox Information and The Wall Avenue Journal, bonded over their shared data of the media business.
“Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Labored for native papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote (Spanish-language TV community) Univision. So I converse Rupert’s language. We share the identical beliefs,” Smith mentioned.
Murdoch was beforehand married to former flight attendant Patricia Booker, journalist Anna Murdoch and entrepreneur Wendi Deng. He has six youngsters.
In 2016, he married his fourth spouse, former mannequin Jerry Corridor, at St. Bride’s Church on London’s Fleet Avenue. They divorced in August final yr.
CNN has reached out to representatives of Murdoch and Smith for additional remark.
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