The mother of Elisabeth, Laclan and James served on the News Corp. board for eight years and wrote three novels.
She and Murdoch were married from 1967 until their divorce in 1999, and she was a member of the News Corp. board from 1990-98. Anna Maria Torv was born in 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland. She and her family moved to Australia in the mid-1950s.
She worked as a clerk at thein Sydney and eventually became a reporter, and after interviewing Murdoch, then the newspaper’s publisher, they married soon after he divorced Patricia Booker.Elisabeth was born in 1968 in Sydney, followed by Laclan in 1971 and James in 1972 in London. De Peyster earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham and her master’s in literature and mythology at NYU and as Anna Murdoch published three novels, 1985’sMere months after her divorce from Murdoch became official, she married businessman William Mann, and they were together until his death in 2017. Two years later, she wed Ashton de Peyster, a real-estate developer in Florida, and he survives her, as do 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her philanthropic efforts included service to Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Institute in Los Angeles and to the Albert Schweitzer hospital for children in Haiti. Murdoch also was married to Wendi Deng from 1999-2013, to Jerry Hall from 2016-22 and since June 2024 to Elena Zhukova.Carly ThomasThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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