Remember in January this year, 91-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch was photographed falling in love five times and taking his sexy blonde girlfriend on vacation to Barbados?
Recently, Murdoch shared the happy news through his group's New York Post - the 92-year-old has officially engaged to his new girlfriend Ann Leslie Smith at the end of last year!
The marriage proposal happened a few days ago on St. Patrick's Day in New York, Murdoch said that he has a quarter of Irish ancestry, so he specially chose this Irish traditional holiday to start the next marriage, he was uneasy to send a hand-selected square cut diamond ring, the proposal was successful...
New fiancée Ann Leslie and he decided to hold a grand wedding at the end of this summer, and they are already in the wedding dress...
As of the official announcement day, Murdoch and Ann Leslie have been dating for less than six months, and Murdoch and his former model wife have been divorced for less than a year... Such an efficient step into the next marriage is worthy of Murdoch.
However, Murdoch, a veteran marriage proposal, still "modestly" said that he was "very nervous" and "afraid of falling in love" about this proposal, and only very much believed that "this time will be the last marriage in his life"...
And the woman Ann Leslie also shared her feelings of engagement for the third time in her life for the first time...
"I was widowed for 14 years. My ex-husband, like Rupert, was a businessman. He has worked for local newspapers, ran radio and television stations, and helped promote television networks. So I have a common language with Rupert. We share the same beliefs. ”
She also described her relationship with Murdoch as "God's gift."
But just as the couple was preparing for the wedding, Ann Leslie was dug up because of an old lawsuit on the back of the previous marriage, and the content was related to the Murdoch family's most sensitive "inheritance issue"...
In 2005, Ann Leslie, who divorced her first husband, was "out of the house" due to a prenuptial agreement to make ends meet by doing odd jobs, and while working as a pastor volunteer at the police department, she met her second husband, country singer Chester Smith, 27 years older than herself.
Chester is not only a star, but also a successful businessman, he owns 13 television stations in California and Oregon, and runs a broadcasting company, worth more than 10 million. After the two got married, Ann was able to move into Chester's hillside mansion and resume her life as a noblewoman.
But just 3 years after marriage, Chester died of a heart attack, leaving a total estate worth $19 million.
A few months later, Ann Leslie was taken to court by Chester's three daughters born to her predecessor over the "distribution of estate"...
Court documents show that Ann Leslie was a beneficiary of a trust she and Chester set up in 2008, and under the terms of the trust, after Chester's death, Ann Leslie would receive all of his estate, including a $14 million trust and $5 million in other liquid assets, as well as all of Chester's art, cars, etc. And Ann Leslie is the executor of the estate.
Chester's children accused Ann Leslie, as a stepmother, "financially abused" his elderly father, Chester, and withheld several of their inheritance funds because she deleted the agreement Chester had tried to leave "a total of $3 million for three children."
One of Chester's daughters, Roxanne Storey, sued her directly, demanding $1 million in inheritance.
But Ann Leslie denied all the allegations, explaining that she was not putting her assets into the trust to embezzle the estate, but simply to give her children more money.
The two sides fought endlessly, intending to settle the dispute through arbitration, but both ended in failure...
In the end, the judge also did not believe that Ann Leslie was capable of administering the trust, and finally ruled that her actions were only for personal gain, requiring her to repay her three daughters $1 million in inheritance, and ordering her to give each of them $250,000 as a "down payment" and execute it quickly.
As a result, Ann Leslie failed to implement the verdict three times in a row, and was severely criticized by the judge...
After some struggle, she finally relented and agreed to pay the court $3 million to reach a settlement.
Chester's daughters eventually received shares in their father's business equal to the amount of their inheritance as compensation...
But at the end of the day, Ann Leslie did not admit any responsibility.
Think about Murdoch's ex-wife Hall, who only reduced Murdoch's contact with the outside world for safety reasons during the epidemic, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Murdoch's children, and the relationship between the two parties deteriorated and became one of the fuses for divorce...
And at the time of the divorce, Hall didn't even know how much money Murdoch had, so he was sent by an email...
It only took Ann Leslie 3 years to know all of Chester's possessions and pocket them all, in short, much smarter than Hall.
In the near future, if this lady wants to fight for more property for herself, I am afraid that she will set off another bloody storm in the Murdoch family...