Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress Jerry Hall are divorcing, the New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
Murdoch married Hall in a discreet ceremony in central London in March 2016. The president of Fox Corp and his former supermodel wife were frequent food for the tabloids, who narrated their marriage at Spencer House and the surrounding festivities. Murdoch’s 90th birthday. held last year at the Tavern on the Green in New York City.
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall have been married since 2016. Credit: AP
According to the report, Murdoch’s divorce, his fourth, is unlikely to alter the ownership structure of the companies in which he has a stake, including Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News Channel, and News Corp. editor of the Wall Street Journal.
The Murdoch family shares in the companies he founded reside in a strictly managed trust.
Murdoch’s spokesman Bryce Tom declined to comment. A Hall representative did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
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The Australian billionaire, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $ 17.7 billion ($ 25.5 billion), built an expanding media empire with assets around the world. He is the CEO of News Corp and co-chair of Fox Corporation. It sold Fox film and television studios and other entertainment assets to Walt Disney Co. in a $ 71.3 billion deal that closed in March 2019.
Murdoch was previously married to businessman Wendi Deng, whom she divorced in 2014 after 14 years of marriage. They have two daughters. He separated from his second wife, Anna Murdoch Mann, a Scottish journalist with whom he had three children, in 1999. He and his first wife, Patricia Booker, a former flight attendant with whom he had a daughter, divorced in 1966.
Reuters