Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time, on the age of 92 years, he stated Monday in an interview along with his personal newspaper, the New York Publish.

Murdoch is engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old former police chaplain in San Francisco and widow of American nation singer and media govt Chester Smith.

“I used to be very nervous. I dreaded falling in love — however I knew this is able to be my final. It higher be,” he advised the tabloid. “I am glad.”

Murdoch divorced his fourth spouse, mannequin Jerry Corridor, final 12 months after six years of marriage.

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The Australian Murdoch, whose media empire contains The Wall Avenue Journal, Fox Information and different influential retailers, is price greater than $20 billion, in keeping with Forbes.

Murdoch met his new fiancee final 12 months at an occasion he hosted at his winery in California and shortly sufficient the pair determined to spend “the second half of our lives collectively,” the tycoon was quoted as saying.

“In perspective, it isn’t my first rodeo. Getting close to 70 means being within the final half,” stated Smith. “I waited for the correct time. Buddies are glad for me.”

The marriage will happen this summer season and the couple plans to separate their time between america and Britain.

Murdoch, who has six youngsters, was first married to Patricia Booker, an Australian flight attendant, whom he divorced within the late Sixties.

He and his second spouse, Anna, a newspaper reporter, have been collectively greater than 30 years earlier than divorcing in 1999. His third marriage to Wendi Deng resulted in 2013.