Nonagenarian propaganda robber baron Rupert Murdoch and conservative radio host/former dental hygienist/San Francisco Police Department chaplain Ann Lesley Smith have gotten ungaged and called their planned wedding off just two weeks after getting engaged, Vanity Fair reports.
The reasons why were unclear although one source said Smith’s Evangelical views were a turnoff for the turgid old man. Murdoch’s adult children had reportedly been rooting for the 66 year-old Smith as she has no kids of her own and thus they wouldn’t be stuck with step-siblings – or worse, half siblings like Rupert’s two now college-age daughters, Chloe and Grace, from his marriage to Wendi Deng. White Murdoch kids Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James moved to block their half-Asian little sisters from receiving voting shares in the trust that controls the family media empire, almost like a plot line from a certain good, but still kind of overrated, HBO comedy-drama series.