Last night the British media suddenly released explosive news, and 91-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch is divorced again!
After he divorced Wendi Deng and divided up the property, he and his current wife, supermodel Jerry Hall, have been married for 6 years, which is his fourth marriage.
Originally, everyone joked that Jerry should be able to accompany Murdoch to the end of his life, but he didn't expect to break up.
The couple's 10 children and friends around them were surprised by the sudden breakup.
And the division of Murdoch's 14 billion assets has once again become the focus of attention. As the wife who has been married to Murdoch for the shortest time and has no common children, will Jerry get a more "shabby" breakup fee than Wendi Deng?
Murdoch is no stranger to everyone, he is an Australian media tycoon who has now moved to the United States.
He holds sky TV, The Sun, The Times, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post and other well-known news media, worth $14 billion.
The fourth wife was the most famous of all Murdoch's partners.
Murdoch was 84 years old when he met his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, who had been divorced for 3 years.
Jerry Hall was the world's most famous model in the '70s and is known as the first generation of supermodels.
Blonde hair and red lips, 182 impressive height and beautiful legs make her particularly eye-catching.
At the peak of Jerry's career, she was featured on the covers of more than forty fashion magazines, including the top-notch Vogue, earning a $1,000 a day (at the time sky-high).
Her sensual charm made her a goddess of inspiration for painters like Francesco Clemente, Ed Ruscha and Lucian Freud, but it's hard to imagine that she and Murdoch were married for the first time, at the age of 59.
In fact, Jerry had a 22-year relationship with the famous rock legend, Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger.
The two married in Bali in 1990, but when they were preparing for divorce in 1999, the British court found that they had not gone through the marriage procedures at all, and their marriage process did not meet the British and Indonesian rules.
So although the two raised 4 children together, the marriage was declared null and void, and Jerry and Mick Jagger were not legal couples.
This also caused Jerry to lose a little money when he took the breakup fee, and only received 18 million pounds, although it was also a large sum of money at the time.
The two broke up because Mick Jagger cheated on him, but Jerry and his relationship remained good.
After marrying Murdoch, Jerry ran a large family in Murdoch, and she and her ex's four children got along well with the Murdoch family, and the two families met frequently.
Jerry and Mick's daughters Elizabeth, Mick, Jerry, and Murdoch
In 2015, Murdoch met Jerry in his hometown in Australia, and after dating for a while, the two were photographed by reporters going to London to watch the Rugby World Cup.
During the period, there were intimate acts such as kissing on the cheek from time to time, and the reporter described Murdoch as if he were a dead wood in spring, with a happy face.
The relationship did not take long to be public, and the two were married.
This decision is quite surprising, after all, for the rich to get married means to prepare for the divorce of the property, not to mention the Murdoch family relationship is already very messy.
Although the age difference between the two does not seem to be so obvious, in fact, Jerry is only 1 year older than Murdoch's eldest daughter, in fact, it is still two generations.
However, the two not only received the license, but also held a grand wedding.
The old man gave Jerry a large 20-carat diamond ring worth £2.4 million (about 19.62 million yuan). Weddings were held twice, the first being a small family gathering and the second being a large wedding.
The invited guests include musical theatre maestro Andrew Lloyd Webber and British national treasure actor Michael Kane.
The family's children were also present, including Jerry and his 2 daughters and 2 sons, Murdoch and Wendi Deng's two daughters, two men and one woman born to his second wife, and the eldest daughter born to his first wife.
Because Jerry is a star herself, the combination of the two has led to much higher media exposure than Wendi Deng, who was unknown before marriage.
Deng's two daughters and Jerry's two daughters were happy to be bridesmaids, making the reorganized family look quite harmonious.
Jerry's seemingly ordinary simple wedding dress, from Vivienne Westwood, costs around £8,000 (about 65,000 yuan).
Murdoch also showed off his love at the time, declaring himself "the luckiest and happiest person in the world" on Twitter.
The marriage of these two was quite optimistic at first, and it is said that The playboy Murdoch, who has tossed for half a lifetime, has the intention of living a solid life.
Coupled with his old age, he gradually entrusted business matters to his designated heir, his son Lachlan, and the other 3 older children have become the mainstay of the company, without having to spend more time on his wife than in previous marriages.
The two are often photographed on vacation together and attend events in pairs.
Jerry seems to be very good at handling complex relationships, and she was photographed celebrating the birthday of Deng and Murdoch's daughter Chloe with Wendi Deng, and it was not very awkward for everyone to sit at the same table.
Last year, when Murdoch celebrated his 90th birthday, Jerry was also busy celebrating his birthday in a high-end restaurant and showing off his love in front of a large group of socialites.
However, Jerry and her 4 children, as well as her friends in the modeling circle, were not seen at the big party at Murdoch's house this week, which is too unusual for her keen to participate in social activities.
In fact, the last time the reporter photographed Jerry walking with Murdoch was last August, and it wasn't until today that the news of the divorce came out that everyone suddenly realized.
It is not known who initiated the divorce, but jerry's friend mentioned that the two did not argue much, but Murdoch had prevented Jerry from participating in the stage play "Graduate" in London's West End because the role needed to be naked on stage, which made Jerry a little dissatisfied, and did not know whether it was the trigger for the separation of the two.
Jerry, 65, is still active in the modeling scene
Of course, the most concerned now is whether the divorce will threaten Murdoch's $14 billion family property.
Combined with Murdoch's previous marriages, the shrinkage of property is unlikely.
Murdoch's divorce from his first wife was the least dramatic, and in 1956, when 25-year-old Murdoch married flight attendant Patricia Booker, and after the two gave birth to their eldest daughter, Patricia had been living alone in a large house far from the city, and she filed for divorce in 1967.
At that time, Murdoch had just made his fortune, and he had no property to share, but only took their daughter with him.
Later, his first wife died a few years later.
The eldest daughter and Murdoch, along with her grandmother, are now the group's media chiefs
Murdoch married his second wife the year of his divorce.
This second wife was the heart of the Murdoch family. Anna Toff is a Scottish journalist 12 years younger than Murdoch.
She had the privilege of interviewing Murdoch, and the two began dating, resulting in the longest marriage of Murdoch's life.
Anna had three children, including Murdoch's eldest son, the heir to the family.
Eldest son, second son, Anna, Murdoch
According to the children's recollections, when their father proposed to divorce his mother in 1999, they were both shocked and incredulous.
Just 17 days after the divorce, Murdoch married a 38-year-old Chinese woman who no one knew, Murdoch Jr., and this was Wendi Deng.
Therefore, many people believe that Wendi Deng was involved in the relationship before Murdoch was divorced.
Although their marriage ended in a breakup, Anna received $1.7 billion in compensation, one of the most expensive divorce lawsuits in the world at the time.
Not only did Anna get the money, but she also asked Murdoch to sign an agreement that Murdoch's business could only be inherited by her eldest daughter, the eldest daughter of her first wife, and her three children.
In the future, no matter who Murdoch marries and has several children, he will not be able to get the inheritance rights of the company. Murdoch also obediently admitted.
Anna and Murdoch's eldest son
Due to the suspected murdoch cheating, the relationship between the second wife Anna and the third wife, Wendi Deng, is very bad.
Although divorced, she still has a certain voice at home, and when their eldest son got married, Anna directly informed Murdoch that Deng Wendi was not allowed to go, and Deng Wendi was really not invited.
Supposedly having learned the lesson of divorcing Anna, Murdoch signed an agreement before marrying Wendi Deng. Murdoch was 68 at the time, and Wendi Deng was only 30 years old, an intern at a TELEVISION station under Murdoch News Group.
After marriage, In order to gain a foothold, Deng Wendi immediately gave birth to two daughters for Murdoch through IVF, however, the bureau of the second wife Bu was destined to limit Deng Wendi's ambitions.
At this time, of the three children of the second wife Anna, the eldest son has become the designated heir, and the other two children occupy key positions in the group.
After standing at home, Wendi Deng repeatedly disagreed with the agreement between Murdoch and his ex-wife, demanding that his two children have the same beneficiary rights as the four older children. (Daughter of the first wife, although an executive, is somewhat marginalized at home.)
It is said that part of the prototype of "The Battle of Succession" is the Murdoch family
Murdoch asked the four children for advice and asked them if they agreed to the separation of powers. But who can agree to give their money to a sister who doesn't drink her own?
Under the unremitting efforts of Deng Wendi, her two daughters eventually only received a partial share of the company, but never owned the management of the company.
In 2011, during the stormy "phone tapping door" scandal, Wendi Deng angrily attacked Murdoch's man in the British Parliament, making her "tough" famous all over the world, and it seemed to indicate that she finally took power in the family.
But just two years later, Murdoch suddenly proposed to divorce Deng Wendi, who is said to have no knowledge before this.
There are rumors that Murdoch proposed a breakup because he was dissatisfied with Deng Wendi and former British Prime Minister Blair, and Deng Wendi has been firmly denying this.
The two signed the divorce agreement months after a months of tug-of-war between the two sides' lawyers.
As a result of the harsh prenuptial agreement, Wendi Deng received less than one percent of Murdoch's assets, including two mansions the two bought in New York and Beijing. The sky-high breakup fee with the second wife can be said to be a world of difference.
However, Deng Wendi's life after the divorce is very dashing, and last year he announced that he was in love with a male model who was 25 years younger than her.
On the other hand, the 91-year-old Murdoch is still worried about getting married and divorced.
As he gets older, a battle for the succession of buried members of the family is about to begin.
So, will the 91-year-old Murdoch's family still kill the dark horse and usher in the fifth wife?
It doesn't seem impossible for him either...