New York, July 2, 2022 – Jerry Hall he asked divorce and Rupert Murdochformalizing the end of a marriage that lasted six years about which rumors had been circulating for about ten days.
The former model presents the bill
The former model, who today has accomplished 66 years old, cited “irreconcilable differences” in the application filed before a California court. Jerry also asked the 91-year-old ex-spouse to pay her alimony and legal fees. For Murdoch it will be the fourth divorcewhile Hall had never married before even though she had four children from a long relationship with Mick Jagger.
The request for him by mail
According to rumors published in the US, Hall fell from the clouds when Murdoch announced that he wanted to separate. “She’s devastated, she broke her heart,” said sources close to the former model that she allegedly blamed his children for the sudden marital crisis. According to the Daily Mail, Jerry was expecting Rupert’s return to Britain when he received it an E-Mail from him who informed her that the marriage was over and that from now on she would have to contact him only through lawyers. “I still love him and I’m desperate,” the Texan would have told a friend. According to the tabloid, tensions between Hall and the stepchildren would have increased during the pandemic when she would have taken a too protective attitude to prevent the elderly tycoon from taking Covid. This would have led the relatives to think that Jerry was trying to get him to cut ties with the rest of the family.
End of a love
Murdoch and Hall were married in 2016 in a centuries-old mansion, Spencer House, overlooking Green Park in London, after a five-month transatlantic love story, culminating in a paid ad in the London Times, one of the publications owned by the groom. : at the time of the wedding Rupert had defined himself as “the happiest and luckiest man in the world“.
The heritage
If the divorce is unlikely to alter the corporate structure – there is a prenup – and especially the succession in the empire founded by the ‘shark’ of world publishing, the separation between Murdoch and Hall could have repercussions on activities of the various companies that belong to the tycoon and ranging from Fox, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal in the US, the tabloid The Sun and the Times in the UK and Sky News in Australia. The Murdoch saga loosely inspired the Hbo series “Succession” in which Scottish actor Brian Cox put the face of the patriarch Logan Roy.