Rupert Murdoch’s summer wedding to Ann Lesley Smith was called off last week, barely two weeks after it had been announced, upon the arrival of spring, in the pages of the New York Post. “We’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch, 92, said of the union, three days after he’d put a $2m Asscher-cut diamond solitaire engagement ring on Smith’s wedding finger during St Patrick’s Day festivities in New York.
Smith, 66, a former San Francisco police chaplain whose late husband was the country singer Chester Smith (who was also a television executive), told the Post that the union “a gift from God”.
