Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corporation, and the former model Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend and announced their pending nuptials Tuesday in the classifieds of a newspaper he owns.
The engagement announcement appeared in The Times of London on the Births, Marriages and Deaths page of the newspaper. They were engaged over the weekend in Los Angeles, a spokesman for Mr. Murdoch said, and they appeared together at the 73rd Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday.
“They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future,” the spokesman, Steven Rubenstein, said in a statement by email.
It will be the fourth marriage for Mr. Murdoch, 84, and the second for Ms. Hall, 59. Mr. Murdoch split with his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, in 2013 after 14 years. He was previously married to Patricia Booker, an Australian, and later to Anna Torv, a journalist.
Ms. Hall wed the singer Mick Jagger in a Hindu ceremony in Bali, but their marriage was annulled in 1999.
Mr. Murdoch, who is also co-executive chairman, with his son Lachlan, of 21st Century Fox, and Ms. Hall began dating last year after they were introduced by one of his sisters and a niece in Australia, according to The Times. They went public with their relationship in October.
The couple have 10 children between them, according to the announcement, which read:
“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.”
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