Rupert Murdoch Australian business tycoon and billionaire is said to be having crises in his marriage as wife Jerry Hall officially files for divorce.
Jerry Hall, 65, while filing for the divorce in the Superior Court of California in L.A. County cited irreconcilable differences and is requesting for spousal support. She also says she does not want the court to be able to award support to her estranged husband and requested Murdoch, 91, to pay her attorney’s fees.
In her divorce filing, she claims not to be “aware of the full nature and extent of all assets and debts, and will amend this Petition when the information has been determined” and same holds true for community and quasi-community property.
The now exes began dating in the summer of 2015 after being introduced by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his niece in Australia. They announced their engagement in January and kept much of their romance private.
Rupert and Hall later got married in a civil ceremony at Spencer House in London on March 4, 2016, Their main wedding service hosted up to 200 close friends and relatives at the historic Fleet Street’s St. Brides Church the following day.
According to Times reports, their divorce isn’t expected to impact Rupert’s stakes in businesses like Fox News and The Wall Street Journal as his family’s shares for the companies he launched are in a secure trust.
While married to Hall, Murdoch brokered a $71.3 billion deal that sold a majority of 21st Century Fox to The Walt Disney Company in 2019, per Variety. He is the chairman of Fox Corporation and oversees outlets The Wall Street Journal and The Sun, along with the book publisher HarperCollins. Hall has appeared in films like Batman and played the role of Ms. Robinson in The Graduate on Broadway. This marks Murdoch’s fourth divorce. The media mogul married his first wife Patricia Booker in 1956 before they divorced in 1967. That same year he married Anna Maria Torv. They divorced in 1999, the same year Murdoch married his third wife Wendi Deng; they split in 2013. His marriages resulted in six children.
Jerry Hall was in a relationship with rocker Mick Jagger for more than two decades before experiencing her first time getting married with Rupert .
Following Hall’s request for a divorce , Murdoch has 30 days to file a response.