Rupert Murdoch and former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith have reportedly known as off their engagement.
The 92-year-old media tycoon and Ms Smith, who’s 26 years his junior, had deliberate to tie the knot in the summertime – in what would have been his fifth marriage.
But Vanity Fair reported the couple have damaged up, citing one supply near Murdoch as saying he had turn into uncomfortable with Ms Smith’s outspoken evangelical views.
Fox Corp chairman Murdoch met 66-year-old Ms Smith final September at his winery Moraga in Bel Air, California, and he known as her two weeks later, he advised News Corp-owned New York Post, which broke the information of the engagement.
Murdoch had divorced his fourth spouse Jerry Hall final August.
Ms Smith was beforehand married to American musician and radio and tv broadcaster Chester Smith till his dying in 2008.
Murdoch proposed throughout St Patrick’s Day festivities in New York on 17 March with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire engagement ring that he “personally selected”.
“I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy,” Murdoch advised the Post on the time.
He beforehand joked that “it better be” his final engagement after his six-year marriage to Hall led to divorce.
The wedding ceremony was set for late summer time and the couple had been planning to separate their time between California, the UK, Montana and New York.
Mr Murdoch’s third spouse was entrepreneur Wendi Deng, mom to 2 of his kids, however they break up in 2013.
He was married to his second spouse Anna Murdoch Mann, a Scottish journalist with whom he shares three kids, 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”