Rupert is free!

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just months before they were due to get married.

That implies this is a last minute thing, but calling it off months ahead of time is the exact opposite. "Just weeks after getting engaged".

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Anyone want a 92 year old billionaire?

Smokers and evangelical Christians need not apply.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...ngagement-off/

Rupert Murdoch has called off his engagement to his prospective fifth wife Ann Lesley Smith just months before they were due to get married.
The 92-year-old media tycoon announced his engagement only a fortnight ago, when he said that the 66-year-old radio host would be his “last” wife.

She was seen last week wearing an 11-carat diamond engagement ring said to be worth around £2 million, and a summer wedding was planned, but sources confirmed to The Telegraph that the whirlwind romance is now over.

Vanity Fair magazine claimed that Mr Murdoch had become “increasingly uncomfortable” with his fiancee’s outspoken evangelical views.

According to other reports, the couple came to a “mutual decision” after a heart to heart discussion on Monday night, during which Ms Smith said she was struggling to cope with being in the public eye.

Mr Murdoch only divorced his fourth wife, model and actor Jerry Hall, last year, and was first seen with Ms Smith in January, when they were spotted on holiday together in Barbados.

Mr Murdoch said after his engagement in March: “I was very nervous. I dreaded falling in love - but I knew this would be my last. It better be. I’m happy.”

He suggested that he expected a long marriage by saying that “we’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together”, but he now appears to have fallen out of love as quickly as he fell in love.

Ms Smith and Mr Murdoch met last September at an event at his vineyard in California. It was just a month after Mr Murdoch and Jerry Hall had divorced.

Ms Smith is known as Rev Ann in her volunteer role as a police chaplain, which followed her discovery of evangelical Christianity following the end of her first marriage. She has said in the past that: “As I began to walk with God, the things of the world just seemed pointless to me.”