Ruin Murdoch gets married to former San Francisco police chaplain

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Ruin Murdoch gets married to former San Francisco police chaplain

In this file photo taken on October 30, 2019, Rupert Murdoch introduces Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Herman Kahn Award Gala in New York. The former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith is a spokesman for Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch, his spokeswoman confirmed on March 20, 2023. PHOTO AP Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch is engaged to former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith, his spokesperson confirmed on Monday. It will mark the fifth marriage for the 92-year-old media mogul.

In August of this year, Murdoch divorced actress and model Jerry Hall.

Murdoch and Smith, 66, met in his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California, for the first time in September, and he called her two weeks later, Murdoch told the News Corp-owned NY Post. Smith is a widow whose late husband was Chester Smith, a country singer, radio and TV executive.

On March 17 in New York, Murdoch presented Smith with an Asscher-cut diamond solitaire ring, according to the Post. They will be married in the late summer.

I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love but I knew this would be my last. Murdoch told the Post: I am happy. ''

Fox is defending itself in a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion accused cable TV networks of rigging the election against Donald Trump and favoring his rival Joe Biden, who won the election.

Fox defended its coverage, arguing that the claims by Trump and his lawyers were inherently newsworthy and protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.