Personal life Rupert Murdoch

murdoch third wife, wendi, in 2011

in 1956 murdoch married patricia booker, former shop assistant , flight attendant melbourne, , had child, prudence, in 1958. divorced in 1967.

in 1967 murdoch married anna maria torv (tõrv), scottish-born cadet journalist working sydney newspaper daily telegraph. in january 1998, 3 months before announcement of separation anna, roman catholic, murdoch made knight commander of order of saint gregory great (ksg), papal honour awarded pope john paul ii. torv , murdoch had 3 children: elisabeth murdoch (born in sydney, australia on 22 august 1968), lachlan murdoch (born in london, uk on 8 september 1971), , james murdoch, (born in london on 13 december 1972). murdoch s companies published 2 novels wife: family business (1988) , coming terms (1991), both regarded vanity publications. divorced in june 1999. anna murdoch received settlement of us$1.2 billion in assets.

on 25 june 1999, 17 days after divorcing second wife, murdoch, aged 68, married chinese-born wendi deng. 30, recent yale school of management graduate, , newly appointed vice-president of star tv. murdoch has 2 daughters her: grace (born 2001) , chloe (born 2003). murdoch has 6 children in all, , grandfather thirteen grandchildren. on 13 june 2013, news corporation spokesperson confirmed murdoch filed divorce deng in new york city, u.s. according spokesman, marriage had been irretrievably broken more 6 months. murdoch ended long-standing relationship tony blair after suspecting him of having affair deng while still married. while murdoch attend mass deng, never formally converted catholicism.

jerry hall, murdoch s fourth wife, whom married in march 2016, photographed in 2009

on 11 january 2016, murdoch announced engagement former model jerry hall in notice in times newspaper. on 4 march 2016, murdoch, week short of 85th birthday, , 59-year-old hall married in london, @ spencer house; murdoch s fourth marriage.

children

murdoch has 6 children. eldest child, prudence macleod, appointed on 28 january 2011 board of times newspapers ltd, part of news international, publishes times , sunday times. murdoch s elder son lachlan, formerly deputy chief operating officer @ news corporation , publisher of new york post, murdoch s heir apparent before resigning executive posts @ global media company @ end of july 2005. lachlan s departure left james murdoch, chief executive of satellite television service british sky broadcasting since november 2003, murdoch son still directly involved company s operations, though lachlan has agreed remain on news corporation s board.

after graduating vassar college , marrying classmate elkin kwesi pianim (the son of ghanaian financial , political mogul kwame pianim) in 1993, murdoch s daughter elisabeth, along husband, purchased pair of nbc-affiliate television stations in california, ksbw , ksby, $35 million loan provided father. re-organising , re-selling them @ $12 million profit in 1995, elisabeth emerged unexpected rival brothers eventual leadership of publishing dynasty s empire. after divorcing first husband in 1998 , quarrelling publicly assigned mentor sam chisholm @ bskyb, struck out on own television , film producer in london. has since enjoyed independent success, in conjunction second husband, matthew freud, great-grandson of sigmund freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) whom met in 1997 , married in 2001.

it not known how long murdoch remain news corporation s ceo. while american cable television entrepreneur john malone second-largest voting shareholder in news corporation after murdoch himself, potentially undermining family s control. in 2007, company announced sell assets , give cash malone s company in exchange stock. in 2007, company issued murdoch s older children voting stock.

murdoch has 2 children wendi deng: grace (b. new york, 19 november 2001) , chloe (b. new york, 17 july 2003). revealed in september 2011 tony blair grace s godfather. there reported tension between murdoch , oldest children on terms of trust holding family s 28.5 percent stake in news corporation, estimated in 2005 worth $6.1 billion. under trust, children wendi deng share in proceeds of stock have no voting privileges or control of stock. voting rights in stock divided 50/50 between murdoch on 1 side , children of first 2 marriages. murdoch s voting privileges not transferable expire upon death , stock controlled solely children prior marriages, although half-siblings continue derive share of income it. murdoch s stated desire have children deng given measure of control on stock proportional financial interest in (which mean, if murdoch dies while @ least 1 of children minor, deng exercise control). not appear has strong legal grounds contest present arrangement, , both ex-wife anna , 3 children said resistant such change.