Rupert Murdoch divorces Jerry Hall : the marriage of the 91-year-old media tycoon with the 65-year-old model and actress already married to Mick Jagger would now be over, according to anonymous sources cited by various newspapers including the New York Times.
The two have been married since 2016 and at the time Murdoch - now in his fourth divorce - had called himself "the happiest man in the world".
Divorce is unlikely to alter the corporate structure and succession in the empire founded by the Australian, but it could have repercussions on the activities of the various companies headed by Murdoch and ranging from Fox, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal in the US. the tabloids The Sun and Times in the UK and Sky News in Australia.
In the early years of marriage, it seemed that Rupert was happy to devote time to his new wife, leaving the children of previous marriages - and his successor first - the freedom to make their way to the top of the family empire.
The tycoon has a total of six children : Prudence with his first wife Patricia Booker, an Australian model from whom he divorced in 1965; Elizabeth, Lachlan and James from second spouse Anna, with whom he was married for three decades until 1999, the year of his marriage to Wendi Deng, a salon entrepreneur; the divorce from the latter in 2014 came amid rumors of a relationship between Wendi and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair who had also been the godfather of Grace and Chloe, the two youngest daughters of the billionaire.
(Unioneonline / L)
