It’s been lower than six months since his divorce from fourth spouse Jerry Hall was finalised, however media baron Rupert Murdoch has been noticed having fun with a vacation with a brand new feminine companion.
The 91-year-old billionaire was seen absorbing the solar in Barbados within the firm of Ann-Lesley Smith, 66, a one-time police chaplain and widow of US nation music star Chester Smith.
The pair, who met in November, dined by a public seaside with Mrs Smith sporting a yellow halterneck bikini and an identical sarong with a big diamond crucifix pendant. They have been stated to be spending time on the Caribbean island on the invitation of British billionaire Anthony Bamford, the chairman of JCB.
Mrs Smith graduated from school within the Nineteen Seventies and earlier than marrying the singer — who additionally owned 13 tv stations in California and Oregon — was in an abusive first marriage which, she has stated, led her to search out God and change into a volunteer police chaplain in Marin County, California.
Now a neighborhood radio presenter, she advised America’s Christian Broadcasting Network: ‘As I began to walk with God, the things of the world just seemed pointless to me.’
She and Smith launched an album, Captured by Love, in 2005. Three years later, having break up from her and remarried, he died of a coronary heart assault aged 78.
Mr Murdoch has been divorced 4 occasions. He was married to former flight attendant Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967 and journalist Anna Torv from 1967 to 1998. He then married Chinese-born entrepreneur Wendy Deng, 38 years his junior, however filed for divorce in 2013.
Mr Murdoch married Ms Hall, former long-term companion of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger, two months after the shock announcement of their engagement in The Times in 2016.
The former mannequin, 66, filed for divorce in July final 12 months. Last night time a pal of Mr Murdoch stated: ‘He seems very happy.’
