Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is getting married for the fifth time — and this time, he’s said it’s for good. Murdoch, 92, announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, 66, via his own publication, The New York Post.
He told the outlet that he met Smith, a former police chaplain, at his California vineyard last September. Read more: Bruce Willis’ wife shares tearful message about grief on actor’s 68th birthday “I met her and we talked a bit.
Two weeks later I called her,” Murdoch told the Post. Murdoch, who said he is “one-fourth Irish,” proposed in New York City on St.
Patrick’s Day, March 17. He presented Smith with an Asscher cut diamond solitaire ring that he personally selected. “I was very nervous,” he said. “I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last.