Rupert Murdoch is ready to marry for a fifth time after turning into engaged to his girlfriend, Ann Lesley Smith.
The 92-year-old joked “it better be” his final engagement after his six-year marriage to fourth spouse Jerry Hall led to divorce final August.
Mr Murdoch stated he met his 66-year-old girlfriend in September at his winery Moraga in Bel Air, California.
He proposed throughout St Patrick’s Day festivities in New York with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire engagement ring that he “personally selected”.
Announcing the engagement within the New York Post, which is owned by Mr Murdoch’s News Corporation, he stated: “I used to be very nervous. I dreaded falling in love – however I knew this may be my final. It higher be. I’m blissful.
“She and her husband also owned a vineyard and had been in the wine business.
“Last yr when there was 200 folks at my winery, I met her and we talked a bit. Two weeks later I referred to as her.”
Former San Francisco police chaplain Ms Smith, whose late husband was country musician Chester Smith, said: “For us each it is a present from God. We met final September. I’m a widow 14 years.
“Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Worked for native papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Univision. So I converse Rupert’s language. We share the identical beliefs.
“In perspective, it’s not my first rodeo. Getting near 70 means being in the last half. I waited for the right time. Friends are happy for me.
“We’re each trying ahead to spending the second half of our lives collectively.”
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The marriage ceremony is ready for late summer time and the couple will break up their time between California, the UK, Montana and New York, it was introduced.
Mr Murdoch’s third spouse was entrepreneur Wendi Deng, mom to 2 of his youngsters, however they break up in 2013.
He was married to his second spouse Anna Murdoch Mann, a Scottish journalist with whom he shares three youngsters, from 1967 till 1999.
Mr Murdoch and his first spouse, Patricia Booker, a former flight attendant with whom he had a daughter, divorced in 1966.
Source: information.sky.com”