New York
: Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall are
getting divorced
the
New York
Times reported Wednesday, citing two people with
knowledge
of the matter.
It will be the fourth
divorce
for the
91-year-old
Murdoch, who married Hall, 65, in London in
March 2016.
The New York Times
reported
that the separation is unlikely to alter the
ownership
structure of businesses he holds stakes in.
which include
parent
companies of Fox News and The Wall Street
Journal.
His
powerful
global media empire also includes the New York Post, The Times of
London
and
British
tabloid The Sun.
Bryce Tom, a
spokesman
for
Murdoch
, said he had no comment to make when contacted by
AFP
.
A
representative
for Hall did not immediately respond to a request for a
statement
.
Murdoch’s first wife was
Patricia
Booker, an Australian flight
attendant
, whom he divorced in the late 1960s.
He and his
second
wife, Anna, a newspaper reporter, were together more than
30 years
before divorcing in 1999.