A new timeline has emerged for when Ann Lesley Smith, former dental hygienist, socialite, Marin County street preacher and Modesto-based conservative radio host, found her way into Murdoch’s …
Hall recognized Ann Lesley Smith from the time, a year earlier, when they hosted her for dinner at their ranch in Carmel, Sherman said. At the time, Smith was dating the ranch’s manager. She also was a conservative radio host “with QAnon-style politics” who flattered the media mogul by telling him that he and Fox News were saving democracy.
Among the humiliations: Hall had to move her things out of their Bel Air estate within 30 days and relied on Jagger’s security consultant to dismantle surveillance cameras that were still sending footage back to Fox headquarters from her estate outside London, Sherman said. In breaking news that Murdoch had called off the engagement, Sherman reported that Smith’s politics and religious views might have been too extreme even for him. A source close to Murdochthat Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable” with Smith’s “outspoken evangelical views.”
It’s easy to see how Murdoch’s three adult children from his second marriage wouldn’t want any added complications from Smith as they gear up for an-already complicated succession battle over the future of the Murdoch empire, Sherman reported. Perhaps Murdoch also didn’t want to be associated with a woman whose
Smith said she found Jesus after surviving a turbulent first marriage in the 1980s to the much-older John B. Huntington, a scion of one of San Francisco’s most prominent families. They married when she was a 28-year-old dental hygienist, joining the 47-year-old Huntington’s high-society life-style, which included a Tiburon estate, philanthropic endeavors, gala openings and a clothing budget of up to $65,000 a month.
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