![]() ![]() “Last year, when there was 200 people at my vineyard,” he explained, “I met her and we talked a bit. He says he first clapped eyes on his new fiancee at one of his properties. Murdoch himself fails to cite divine intervention. The sort of guy you’d greet cordially on the annual facilities visit – but certainly wouldn’t invite to the corporate retreat. I can’t help feeling that if Madam’s husband-to-be were truly to concede the existence of God, it would surely only be as a regional manager in his Churches division. ![]() “For us both,” Ann claims to the New York Post, “it’s a gift from God.” Mm. There is certainly plenty to enjoy in her characterisation of Murdoch as the humble beneficiary of largesse from the Almighty. I want to hear much, much more about Ms Smith’s prison chaplaincy, the standout occupation in a resumé that tends toward the eclectic. If you’re wondering what my favourite part of this entire fairytale is, I think I would have to alight on: everything. As for what you get the couple who have everything as a wedding gift: anything other than a defibrillator.Ī protest outside Fox News headquarters in New York, 28 February 2023. If there were ever a right time to marry Rupert Murdoch, you’d have to say him being 92 was close to it. The couple have marked the plighting of their … troth, is it? … by giving a short interview to Murdoch’s New York Post, in which the proprietor declares: “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together.” Or as the bride-to-be puts it: “I waited for the right time.” (Murdoch was, of course, first painted in 1533 by Holbein, stretched across the base of his celebrated work The Ambassadors)Īlas, this obviously hilarious news of the old boy’s latest marital adventure has been met with the sort of strangled deference Murdoch tends to inspire in journalism. We await the official engagement portrait. ![]() Who wants to hear about stolen elections when there are stolen hearts to celebrate? Let’s tell this week’s happy stories first: at the age of 92, Rupert Murdoch is engaged to be married for a fifth time, on this outing to one Ann Lesley Smith, 66. Murdoch recently admitted he had known his hosts were endorsing lies, yet allowed them to continue.īut we’re getting ahead of ourselves. If not into the sunset, then certainly into the Delaware courtroom that is gearing up for a blockbuster libel trial against Rupert’s Fox News for airing false and incendiary claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump. ![]() She dreaded falling in love, but she got back on the horse that bucked her and rode off. Dare she allow herself to open her heart again? Dare she, who has been hurt before, permit herself one last surrender to the possibility of completeness? Dare she, 15 minutes after divorcing Jerry Hall by email, clap eyes on a former dental hygienist, model, singer-songwriter, Bay area socialite and prison chaplain – and declare simply: “I want it”? I dreaded falling in love.” Ah, there goes newly affianced Rupert Murdoch, sounding for all the world like a widow who has previously lost her home and life savings in a romance scam to a guy falsely claiming to be an airline pilot. ![]()
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