Rupert Murdoch And Jerry Hall Announce Engagement In ‘Times Of London’

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to Jerry Hall, the actress and former supermodel.

Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall Engaged

Murdoch, who is the executive chairman of News Corporation, which owns The Times of London, announced his engagement to Hall on the paper’s Births, Marriages and Deaths page. The official announcement reads:

“Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement.”

Murdoch, 84, proposed to Hall, 59, in Los Angeles over Golden Globes weekend. They have only been dating since the summer, when they were introduced by Murdoch’s relatives in his native Australia. Murdoch and Hall went public with their relationship in October, when they attended the Rugby World Cup final in London.

“They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future,” a Murdoch family spokesperson told the Daily Mail.

The marriage will be the fourth for Murdoch, who was last married to Chinese businesswoman Wendi Deng before they divorced in 2013 after 14 years together. Murdoch was first married to Patricia Booker from 1956-1967. He was then married to journalist Anna Torv from 1967-1999. Murdoch has one child with Booker, three with Mann and two with Deng.

Though Hall has a long list of famous exes, this will be her first marriage. Hall’s most serious relationship was with Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger, with whom she had an unofficial marriage ceremony in Indonesia in 1990. The two, who were together since 1977, have four children together – Elizabeth Scarlett, James Leroy, Georgia May and Gabriel Luke. They split in 1999.