Rupert Murdoch Engaged for the Fifth Time at 92: ‘I Knew This Would Be My Last’

One of the most successful media executives in America is tying the knot — for the fifth time.

💼Rupert Murdoch confirmed his latest engagement to Ann Lesley Smith on Monday, in response to inquiry from the New York Post.

“I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love,” the 92-year-old Murdoch said of his engagement.

“But I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy.”

Murdoch is marrying Smith, a former police chaplain and the widow of country singer and television executive Chester Smith.

“I’m a widow 14 years. Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Worked for local papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Univision. So I speak Rupert’s language. We share the same beliefs,” she said of the partnership.

“In perspective, it’s not my first rodeo. Getting near 70 means being in the last half. I waited for the right time. Friends are happy for me.”

The couple met at a September event at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California.

“She and her husband also owned a vineyard and had been in the wine business. Last year when there was 200 people at my vineyard, I met her and we talked a bit. Two weeks later I called her.”

Murdoch offered Smith his hand in 💍Marriage on Saint Patrick’s Day in New York