Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is preparing to walk down the aisle for the fifth time.
The 92-year-old tycoon revealed he’s engaged to marry Ann Lesley Smith in an article published Monday in the New York Post, one of his own publications.
Murdoch told gossip columnist Cindy Adams that he met his soon-to-be wife in September, when she visited his vineyard, the Moraga Estate, in Bel Air, California.
“I was very nervous,” Murdoch said of their whirlwind romance. “I dreaded falling in love – but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy.”
The News Corp. founder proposed with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire in New York on St. Patrick’s Day, because he is “one-fourth Irish.”
The pair intend to get hitched in late summer this year. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch said.
Smith was previously married to Chester Smith, a country singer and radio and TV executive, who died in 2008.
The 66-year-old bride-to-be said she and Murdoch, whose empire includes outlets like Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, bonded over their shared knowledge of the media industry.
Murdoch was previously married to former flight attendant Patricia Booker, journalist Anna Murdoch and entrepreneur Wendi Deng. He has six children.
In 2016, he married his fourth wife, former model Jerry Hall, at St. Bride’s Church on London’s Fleet Street. They divorced in August last year.
((An Amazing Tour Of Rupert Murdoch's Mansions, Boats And Planes))
Luckily he still has great real estate in England, China, Australia and America, along with a few planes and boats he can sleep on.
(Here's Murdoch's home in MAYFAIR, a central and very expensive section of London-AP Images)
(Murdoch's New York headquarters is this triplex on FIFTH AVE, bought for $44 million in 2005- Courtesy of Google maps)
(Murdoch put a boatload into renovations on FIFTH AVE, including a $400,000 gym- Courtesy of Curbed)
(A short helicopter ride from Manhattan is Rupert's OYSTER BAY beach home, recently listed for $10.5 million-Courtesy of Curbed)
OYSTER BAY: A short drive (helicopter?) from Manhattan is this beach home, recently listed for $10.5M.
(A look inside the OYSTER BAY estate)(Murdoch's villa in BEVERLY HILLS has 11 bedrooms spread over 8,700 feet-Courtesy of Curbed)
(Somewhere in the luxury neighborhood near Beijing's FORBIDDEN CITY, Rupert owns a Confucian-style mansion with an underground pool-Source: NYT)
(Don't forget about Rupert's mobile home, his yacht ROSEHEARTY)
(Murdoch also owns a BOEING 737 like this one. It's also rumored that Elton John's GAMMA AVIATION GULFSTREAM IV G-MATF has been on lease to Murdoch for years-ahisgett via flickr)
(Rupert also has a MELBOURNE home -- location unknown. Here's a picture of the Melbourne farm where he grew up and his mother has lived for 82 years.-regs79 on flickr)
(Murdoch sold this SOHO apartment for $25M in 2005-Source: Curbed)
Ref: Rupert Murdoch is engaged to marry Ann Lesley Smith (wikipedia, CNN, nypost, trulia, businessinsider)
