Mr Murdoch’s spokesman Bryce Tom declined to comment on the Times report. The Independent contacted Hall for comment. The couple got married in 2016 in London, after a relationship for less than a year. At the time, Murdoch said on Twitter that he was “the luckiest and happiest man in the world.” The rumored split is unlikely to affect Mr Murdoch’s media empire, which includes stakes in Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The Sun and Sky News Australia. Business control is in a trust, with voting rights being shared between Mr Murdoch and his four older children: Lachlan, Elisabeth, James and Prudence. Murdoch, 91, with a fortune of $ 17.7 billion, has been married three times before, to businessman Wendy Deng, journalist Anna Murdoch Mann and Australian model Patricia Booker. Mrs. Hall, 65, was previously married to the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. The two do not have children together, although they have children from previous marriages. Murdoch and Ms. Hall were introduced to each other by one of the media mogul’s sisters and his niece, the Daily Mail reports. They announced their relationship in October 2015, appearing together in the final of the Rugby World Cup in London.
