Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall have announced their engagement after a whirlwind four-month romance. Mr Murdoch, 84, the executive chairman of News Corporation, which owns The Times, announced the news on the Births, Marriages and Deaths page of the newspaper. The billionaire’s new fiancee, Miss Hall, 59, has four children with former partner Sir Mick Jagger, although the couple were never legally married.
Mr Murdoch and Miss Hall started dating in the late summer after being introduced by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his niece in Australia.
The couple made their relationship public in October when they were seen for the first time together at the Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham in London.
They were engaged in Los Angeles over the weekend, where they attended the 73rd Golden Globes awards gala. An engagement ring was not seen on Miss Hall’s hand when the pair walked the red carpet arm-in-arm on Sunday night.
The classified advertisement announcing their engagement reads: ‘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.’
A spokesperson for the Murdoch family told MailOnline: ‘They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future.’
No date for their wedding has been given.
It will be Mr Murdoch’s fourth marriage, having divorced Wendi Deng in 2013. His first marriage was to Australian Patricia Booker and he then married Glasgow-born journalist Anna Torv.
It will be Miss Hall’s first official marriage after an unofficial ceremony with Jagger in 1990 was declared invalid after the pair ended their 23-year relationship in 1999.