Fifth time is apparently not the charm.
that Murdoch was seriously considering popping the question to Smith, a 66-year-old ex-police chaplain. Smith was previously married to country singer and television broadcaster Chester Smith, who died in 2008.The following month, Murdoch made the upcoming nuptials public, a key tabloid within his immense media empire. “I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love—but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy,” Murdoch said at the time.
“We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” the Fox Corp chairman added.that the media mogul called off the wedding because he’d “become increasingly uncomfortable with Smith’s outspoken evangelical views.”announcement, Smith’s religious views were apparent. “For us both it’s a gift from God. We met last September,” the former San Francisco police chaplain stated. “I’m a widow 14 years. Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman.
Additionally, in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Smith discussed how she’d found Jesus in a coffee shop and later became a street preacher. “When you let the Lord take control of your life, you can make it. Out of the ruins you can rise and let the oil of his anointing just be all over you,” she said at the time.
As of now, it looks like Murdoch will be stuck at four marriages. After divorcing flight attendant and model Patricia Booker in 1967, with whom he shared daughter Prudence MacLeod, he married journalist Ann Torv the following year. The couple had three children before divorcing in 1999. Murdoch later wed Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendi Deng days after his split from Torv, having two children with her before calling it quits in 2014. Two years later, he announced his engagement to Hall, marrying her just before his 85th birthday.
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