Rupert Murdoch set to marry for fifth time at 92

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to his spouse Ann Lesley Smith, a erstwhile constabulary chaplain.

Mr Murdoch, 92, and Ms Smith, 66, met successful September astatine an lawsuit astatine his vineyard successful California.

The businessman told the New York Post, 1 of his ain publications: "I dreaded falling successful emotion - but I knew this would beryllium my last. It amended be. I'm happy."

He divided with 4th woman Jerry Hall past year.

Mr Murdoch added that helium projected to Ms Smith connected St Patrick's Day, noting that helium was "one 4th Irish" and had been "very nervous".

Ms Smith's precocious hubby was Chester Smith, a state vocalist and vigor and TV executive.

"For america some it's a acquisition from God. We met past September," she told the New York Post.

"I'm a widow of 14 years. Like Rupert, my hubby was a businessman... So I talk Rupert's language. We stock the aforesaid beliefs."

Mr Murdoch, who has six children from his archetypal 3 marriages, added: "We're some looking guardant to spending the 2nd fractional of our lives together."

The wedding volition instrumentality spot successful precocious summertime and the mates volition walk their clip betwixt California, Montana, New York and the UK.

Mr Murdoch was antecedently joined to Australian formation attendant Patricia Booker, Scottish-born writer Anna Mann, and Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendi Deng.