Billionaire and CEO of News Corp Rupert Murdoch married Jerry Hall in a low-key ceremony in London in 2016, this being his fourth marriage after he divorced Wendi Deng in 2014.
In the rolling hills of Bel Air, up a winding road bordered by gated McMansions, lies the Moraga Estate, a 16-acre property that is home to the only working vineyard in Los Angeles.
One thing led to another and, for a couple of weeks, the sprightly couple were even engaged. But then Murdoch got cold feet and abruptly called things off. 'Rupert will be 93 on Monday, so he wants to get on with it,' was how a source close to the tycoon explained the whirlwind development. Guests, who are expected to include Rupert's six and Elena's three children, are likely to be served beef from Murdoch's 340,000-acre ranch in Montana, along with the 'remarkably refined wines' harvested from the surrounding hillside, which retail for between $75 and $140 per bottle.
'Particularly Lachlan , who got to know Elena pretty well last summer, shortly after got together, when they spent time yachting around the Med with his family.' Rupert then moved to an 'Emeritus Chairman' role. His businesses, which include a global stable of newspapers, including Britain's Times and Sun, along with a broadcasting arm with assets such as Fox News, are now controlled by a family trust.
Elena brought her daughter, Dasha, with her. The girl's father Alexander Zhukov — Elena's ex-husband — remained behind in the former USSR. They quickly struck up a relationship and married in 2008, following the oligarch's divorce from his second wife. Shortly after marrying Abramovich, Dasha gave her mother a new home in Beverly Hills, worth around £7 million.
Last summer, Wendi hosted a large gathering at her home in Los Angeles to which both Dasha and her mother Elena were invited. This is reported to have been the event at which Rupert was first introduced to Elena. Pictured: Rupert with Jenny Hall Sources said they'd argued, among other things, over Smith's belief that the Covid pandemic was part of a global conspiracy cooked up deliberately by Bill Gates.
Ms Hall later told friends she was given a mere 30 days to vacate Moraga, where they had sat out the pandemic together, and was required to pack up her belongings under the gaze of security guards, showing receipts to prove what she took was hers. Examples included a 2018 incident when the couple were sailing in the Caribbean aboard the Sarissa, a 140ft yacht owned by Lachlan. Murdoch suffered a serious fall and was found 'in excruciating pain on the cabin floor'.No sooner had Hall nursed him back to health than he tripped over a box of chess pieces given to him for his 87th birthday and tore his Achilles tendon.
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