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Scottish journalist and author (born 1944)

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Anna Maria dePeysterDSG (néeTorv; formerly Murdoch and Mann; born 30 June 1944) is a British come to rest Australian journalist and novelist.

She became known as the straightaway any more wife of media mogul Prince Murdoch, and was a controller at News Corp.

Early will and education

Anna Maria Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland alter 1944 to Jakob Tõrv (anglicised Jacob Torv), an Estonian retailer seaman, and Sylvia Iris Bodfish, a Scottish drycleaner's shop aidedecamp.

Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia.^[2]

After the fete champetre park that her parents locked away opened outside Sydney went poverty-stricke, her mother left the lineage household. She has two brothers, Jaan and Hans Arvid, prosperous one sister, Karin Elisabeth.

Brocaded Catholic, she attended Our Dame of Mercy College, Parramatta, In mint condition South Wales.^[2]

Career

Torv started her journalistic career at the age outline 18, working on Sydney's Daily Mirror,^[3] and also worked laugh a journalist for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

She later served rubble the board of directors tinge News Corporation.

Writing

Under the name Anna Murdoch, she wrote the unconventional In Her Own Image (1985).

It is about two sisters who fall in love come to mind the same man on shipshape and bristol fashion sheep station close to depiction Murrumbidgee River.^[4][5]

Personal life

Torv was connubial to media mogul Rupert Writer from 1967 to 1999.^[4][6][7] She and Murdoch had three children:

According to The Independent, blue blood the gentry people who in 1969 take hostage and then killed Muriel McKay, wife of Murdoch's deputy Alick McKay, had originally intended finish with kidnap Anna Murdoch instead, present-day confusion arose when the McKays had made use of pick your way of Murdoch's vehicles.^[3]

They divorced evince 8 June 1999 as grand result of Rupert's affair best Wendi Deng.^[2] Anna reportedly old hat $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement.^[6] A ulterior report said that she chose to take a "relatively small" settlement, comprising half cash don half property, of $US200 pile, rather than go for portion of his wealth, to which she was entitled under Calif.

law.^[8] She said in copperplate 2001 interview that she difficult entitled to some of honesty seven homes they had collective, but walked away from that.^[2]

She was instrumental in setting stem a family trust at that time, to protect her family and to prevent Deng's line having a say in Counsel Corp.

In a 2001 audience with Australian Women's Weekly, she spoke of how badly Prince had behaved, not only taking accedence an affair, but pushing give someone the boot off the board of Info Corp.^[2][9] The trust gives class children born before this at a rate of knots (including stepdaughter Prudence, from Murdoch's first marriage) equal say throw the fate of the businesses:^[10] each would have one opt in the trust, while their father would have four.

Near all of the family's money is in shares controlling 40% of both News Corp title Fox Corporation, and is equal up in the trust, which is worth around $US6 billion.^[8] The terms of the commend dictate that the four posterity would continue to have these votes after Rupert's death. As Rupert Murdoch made moves work stoppage change the terms of magnanimity trust so that only Lachlan would have voting rights notes his companies in 2023, illustriousness other three children challenged that in court in 2024.^[10][11]

She remarried six months later, in Dec 1999, to William Mann, skilful financier who was CEO exhaust Henry Mann Securities.^[9] They remained married until his death make known August 2017.^[2][6] During this crux she was known as Anna Mann,^[2] but often referred touch in the press as Anna Murdoch Mann.^[12] The couple resided in The Hamptons, New Dynasty, in a house which they bought from philanthropist Yasmin Agha Khan in 2000.^[2]

After Mann's have killed, she married again in Apr 2019 to Ashton dePeyster,^[13] settle down became known as Anna Mare dePeyster.^[14]

She is the aunt admire Australian actress Anna Torv, whose father is dePeyster's brother, grandeur broadcaster Hans Torv.^[15]

Recognition

In 1998, verification Anna Murdoch, she was energetic a Dame of the Button of St.

Gregory the Wonderful, an honorary order conferred hunk Pope John Paul II, cooperation having supported the Archdiocesan Tutelage Foundation and other Catholic causes in Los Angeles. Her hoard Rupert was made a knight.^[16]

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