Rupert Murdoch has reportedly emailed his fourth wife Jerry Hall a message that he is filing for divorce. Photo: John Nguyen/JNVisuals
Rupert Murdoch is said to have ended his marriage to Jerry Hall with an 11-word proposal emailed to her without warning.
The billionaire media mogul texted his fourth wife to say, «Jerry, unfortunately I' «We have decided to end our marriage,» says an explosive Vanity Fair profile.
It is also alleged that when Ms Hall moved into the Oxfordshire home she had been given in her divorce, she discovered that CCTV cameras are still broadcasting live to Fox headquarters in New York.
The former supermodel's friends said she was 'dazzled' by the breakup as the couple 'never fought' and she cured him from several diseases.
Ms. Hall is said to have been given 30 days to move out of the couple's mansion. in Bel Air, California, and was forced to produce receipts proving the items belonged to her.
The revelations were made in a 6,000-word article written by the same reporter who reported on the annulment of Mr. Murdoch's fifth marriage. A quick and sudden divorce from his fourth wife was given to Vanity Fair by friends of the Texas model, who said that it was Mr. Murdoch who initiated the breakup out of the blue.
Tom Kashin, a close friend of Ms Hall, said she was «devastated, furious and humiliated» by what happened. She told her friends that she had stuffed her ex-husband, tied dental floss around his neck and burned him on the grill.
According to the magazine, she was waiting to meet Mr. Murdoch at their Oxfordshire home. last June when she checked her phone and saw an email from her husband.
It said: «Jerry, unfortunately, I have decided to end our marriage» and further: «We definitely had a good time, but I have a lot to do … My New York lawyer will contact you immediately.»
The divorce was finalized last August, just two months after the email was sent.
Murdoch's many wives
Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Ms. Hall was banned from giving ideas to screenwriters on popular television . the Continuity show, which many thought was inspired by the Murdoch family, according to the article.
The Texan told friends that security guards watched her pack her belongings at the couple's home in Los Angeles, where she was helped by her children.
When she returned to the Oxfordshire home she left after her divorce, security cameras were still connected to Fox's New York offices, and Ms. Hall's former partner Mick Jagger sent his security consultant to cut them off.
Sources close to Ms. Hall told Vanity Fair that there were disagreements between Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Hall over his increasingly anti-abortion views and friction with Mr. Murdoch's children due to the strict masking and testing regime. introduced by Mrs. Hall before they could visit their father. , but she never felt that Mr. Murdoch treated them as a serious problem.
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The divorce came as a surprise to Ms. Hall's friends because they considered the couple to be a good couple who were happy together.
They met in 2013 when Ms. Hall was in Melbourne, Australia, playing Ms. Robinson in a production of The Graduate, and they were introduced by Ms. Hall's friend Penny Fowler, Mr. Murdoch's niece. Her previous partners Mr. Jagger and Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry's proposal was somewhat different from their months of courting her via email and phone before she agreed to dine with him in New York.
When she arrived at her hotel, her room was filled with flowers and sweets. She later told friends, “He was an old-fashioned gentleman. We laughed together non-stop.»
After a couple of days, they had a second date to watch the musical «Hamilton», and their relationship quickly became official.
A few weeks later, Mr. Murdoch and Miss Hall flew to Texas to spend time with her family. , whose views were more conservative than those of Jerry, and they were delighted to meet her new man.
Six months later, Mr. Murdoch proposed, saying: «according to Vanity Fair.
They got married in London in 2016, but their honeymoon was marred by the fact that Mr. Murdoch came down with the flu, the magazine writes.
Nanny Jerry
Comments from friends of Ms Hall, 66, suggest she considers the divorce a blow under the belt after treating Mr Murdoch during several bouts of illness, some of which were serious.
Mr Kashin said she was «as sensitive to him as a full-time nurse».
During the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Hall were isolated in Bel Air without staff.
At the start of the pandemic, Murdoch went into lockdown with his then-wife Jerry Hall. Photo: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo
The article describes how she cooked simple meals with fried chicken and veggie pasta, and bought robotic vacuum cleaners to keep the house clean.
One source told Vanity Fair: «He was afraid for himself and was very careful.» .”
In December of that year, the billionaire became one of the first people in the world to receive a Covid vaccine.
According to the report, Mr. Murdoch was also taken to Cromwell Hospital in London in the summer of 2022 with a serious illness. case of Covid-19.
In March 2019, Mr. Murdoch reportedly fell when he tripped over a box of chessboards that his son Lachlan had given him for his 87th birthday at his Bel Air mansion. .
The patriarch tore his Achilles tendon and was reportedly confined to a wheelchair. As widely reported at the time, he was taken to the hospital several times with pneumonia.
Night in the car park
On one occasion in early 2018, Mr. Murdoch was forced to spend the night on a stretcher. in a car park on a Caribbean island after injuring himself in a fall from his son Lachlan's yacht.
He is said to have «nearly died» after an incident aboard the 140-foot Sarissa.< /p> 
Ms. Hall spoon-fed Murdoch for months after a fall on the Sarissa that broke his back. Photo: infausy-12/INF Vanity Fair provides fresh details of what happened that night.
The crew had to divert a boat to Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe to give Mr. Murdoch medical attention, but they struggled to get him offshore. a huge yacht descends to the pier.
Then his team discovered that the local hospital was closed, which meant that the tycoon had to spend the night in a tent in the car park until he was evacuated by private jet.
< p>Subsequently, doctors at a hospital in California diagnosed Murdoch. with arrhythmias and back fractures.
While his team tried to downplay the injuries, the reality was much more serious and Ms. Hall reportedly had to spoon-feed him for several months.
Doctors are said to have also found evidence of previous back injuries, which Murdoch explained injuries he says he sustained when his third wife, Wendi Deng, pushed him at the piano during an argument.
Ms. Deng did not respond to the magazine's requests for comment.
Trump unrest
While Mr. Murdoch's Fox News channel lauded Donald Trump, Jerry Hall despised him and made no attempt to hide her views.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News covered President Trump's allegations of meddling in the 2020 election. Credit: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
Mr Kashin said: «During the dinners we had with Jerry and Rupert, Jerry didn't hold back.»
The magazine claimed that Murdoch wanted to buy a house in Florida to be closer to the Trump base in Mar-a-Lago, but Hall insisted.
She reportedly told friends she was concerned about Mr. Trump's lack of relevant experience to become president, or a clear respect for the office.
Reportedly at a dinner shortly after the 2016 election Hall asked Mr. Trump to reroute an underground oil pipeline called the Dakota Access Pipeline away from Native American reservations that were protesting it crossing their land.
In response, Mr. Trump is said to have asked if she would like to become head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
She is quoted as saying to friends, “It was terrible. I was itching to leave.”
Another woman?
In March, 92-year-old Murdoch announced that he was marrying former prison chaplain Ann Leslie Smith, but just two weeks later, their engagement was called off.
Murdoch said he first met Miss Smith in his vineyard. in California last September, a month after his divorce was finalized, but Ms Hall's friends speculated they had met earlier.
Vanity Fair claims Ms Smith dated the property manager Mr. Murdoch's ranch in Carmel, California, and that she had lunch with Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Hall at the ranch months before Mr. Murdoch decided their marriage was over.
The magazine claims that Ms. Smith «offered to brush Murdoch's teeth» and that he began traveling to Carmel alone, saying that his daughter, Grace, wanted to spend one-on-one time with him.
A source close to Mr. Murdoch denied that the dinner ever took place.
Two-week engagement
When Mr. Murdoch and Ms. Smith announced their plans to get married, they said the wedding would take place this summer, and Mr. Murdoch said he was looking forward to spending the “second half” of his life with her.
He proposed. with an 11 carat diamond engagement ring said to be worth over £2 million.
Just over two weeks later, it became known that the wedding did not take place. Sources close to Ms Smith, a former radio host who was previously married to country and western singer Chester Smith, said she struggled to cope with being in the public eye.
Ann Leslie
Camp Murdoch suggested that the real reason was that he was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with her outspoken evangelical views.
Vanity Fair quoted one source as saying that Ms Smith claimed conservative Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson to be «a messenger from God, and he [Murdoch] said no.»
Neither Ms. Smith nor Mr. Murdoch made any public comments after the engagement ended.
Family quarrel
According to Vanity Fair, Mr. Murdoch's sons James and Lachlan no longer speak to each other after serious quarrel over the future of the family business.
Murdoch's sons Lachlan (left) and James (right) are reportedly not on speaking terms, mainly due to their differing political views. Photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
The magazine claims the brothers don't talk and the Fox News network is at the center of their differences.
50-year-old James is liberal in his politics and is said to be terrified from exaggeration on Fox, specifically his support for Donald Trump and his «stolen» presidential election claims, and climate change denial.
He sees the network as a danger to democracy and intends to rebrand it as a centrist news channel when his father eventually dies.
51-year-old Lachlan supports his father. Fox's position, and as executive chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News Media, it is him that James must oust to get his way.
Each of Mr Murdoch's four children — James, Lachlan, Elizabeth and Prudence — has equal voting rights on the board of the trust that controls the family empire, meaning one child will need the support of two others to succeed his father when he dies.< /p>Trouble at Disneyland
In 2017, Rupert Murdoch surprised much of the business world by announcing his intention to sell 20th Century Fox to The Walt Disney Company in a £57bn deal.
This caused one of the biggest family quarrels the Murdochs had ever seen.
James supported the idea, but Lachlan was strongly opposed, and is said to have told his father and brother about it over dinner. in New York: «If you make this deal, I will never talk to any of you again!»
A source close to Lachlan denied this information to Vanity Fair.
A rep for Rupert Murdoch declined to comment on statements made to the magazine.
Rep With Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger and Wendi Deng have been contacted for comment.
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