91 -year -old Murdoch will divorce the fourth time, and the breakup fee will attract external attention again

Jimu News reporter Huang Jiaqi

Intern Zhao Wenbo

According to the New York Times reported on the 22nd, media tycoon Robert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall were divorced, which caused the public to pay attention to Murdoch assets. Earlier, Murdoch set a record of "the most expensive breakup fee" at the time for $ 1.7 billion.

Murdoch and the fourth wife Hall (picture source: BBC)

Murdoch and his current wife Hall held a wedding in a luxury mansion in the city center of London in March 2016. Their marriage has maintained 6 years. This will be the fourth divorce of Murdoch, 91.

After the news of the divorce came out, the focus of the outside world was how many net worth of Hall would be able to divide Murdoch.

Murdoch's news group Empire controlled the US Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, as well as the British "Sun" and "Times" and other major media. However, according to the Times, divorce may not affect Murdoch's media asset ownership structure. According to Forbes website, Murdoch is currently worth $ 17.7 billion.

A record of the "most expensive breakup fee" record

Murdoch had three marriages before he married his current wife Hall.

Murdoch's first wife, Pat, was a stewardess. The two married in 1956 and gave birth to a long -term daughter Prutenus. The two were divorced in 1967. Murdoch had the right to custody of her daughter and paid a breakup fee to Pat. The specific amount was unknown.

In 1967, Murdoch married 19 -year -old Estonian reporter Anna and gave birth to his daughter Elizabeth and two sons Laklan and James. This marriage was 32 years old.

Murdoch and the second wife Anna (source: "Guardian")

According to local laws, once the couple's marriage exceeds 30 years, half of the property can be paid when divorced. However, for the inheritance of three children, Anna finally gave up half of Murdor's family property, and chose a breakup fee of up to 1.7 billion US dollars (about RMB 11.4 billion), including 110 million US dollars (about 740 million yuan, about RMB 740 million ) Cash.

This high breakup fee set a record of the "most expensive breakup fee" at that time, and once shocked the world.

The ex -wife Deng Wendi daughter won 4 billion US dollars

In 1999, 17 days after the divorce agreement with Anna, Murdoch, 68, married the third wife, the 31 -year -old Deng Wendi.

Murdoch and the third wife Deng Wendi (picture source: ABC News)

This marriage has been maintained for 14 years. In November 2013, Murdoch and Deng Wendi reached a "friendly" divorce agreement in New York.

Since Murdoch and Deng Wendi signed an agreement before marriage, it stipulated that after Murdoch's death, Deng Wendi could not enjoy the inheritance of the inheritance, which made Deng Wendi and Murdoch unable to separate Murdoch's net worth, let alone Murdoch News Group shares.

According to media reports, although Deng Wendi failed to get a cup of Murdoch News Group, she had two valuable properties in Beijing and New York, and her two daughters she gave birth to Murdoch The beneficiary of the voting right fund.

The dramatic thing is that in the sixth year after the two of them divorced, because Murdoch sold some of its assets to Walter Disney, and the resold funds were used as the property of their children, which made Deng Wendi two. The daughter received $ 4 billion (about 26.8 billion yuan).

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