Vanity Fair reports that the 92-year-old and his latest fiancée are no longer “looking forward to spending the second half of [their] lives together.”
,” a Murdoch property, broke the news of the engagement on March 20, because what is more romantic than publicizing your newfound love in a newspaper that you own? Murdoch told the reporter that he was “very nervous” proposing to his new lady, a 66-year-old former San Francisco police chaplain who — according to the— also worked as a dental hygienist before she became a conservative radio broadcaster. “I dreaded falling in love,” Murdoch said, “but I knew this would be my last. It better be.
Said gift apparently arrived in September at Murdoch’s vineyard in Bel Air. There, one month after Murdoch finalized his divorce from his fourth wife,, he met Smith at a 200-person event. Smith and her late husband, Chester Smith, a country-western singer who died in 2008, had also owned a vineyard, and she and Murdoch apparently bonded over their mutual hobby of vineyard-owning. Six months later, perhaps feeling especially connected to his roots , he proposed on St.
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