text: Murdoch and Hall’s engagement notice appeared in the births, marriages and deaths section of the Times newspaper in London 
   
   Rupert Murdoch has announced his engagement to Jerry Hall in the births, marriages and deaths section of the Times newspaper in London. 
   
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   The 84-year-old media mogul and the 59-year-old former supermodel have been dating for four months after being introduced by Murdoch’s sister and niece in Australia. 
   
   Their relationship became public knowledge after they appeared together at the rugby World Cup final at Twickenham in London in October. 
   
   They were engaged over the weekend in Los Angeles, where they attended the Golden Globes. 
   
   The notice appeared in the Tuesday 12 January edition of the Times. The newspaper also ran a news story online, behind its paywall. 
   
   “Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement.” 
   
   An announcement in the Times newspaper on 12 January. With black border Photograph: The Times 
   
   Guardian Australia investigations suggest Murdoch could have paid close to £300 ($US436) for the classified, though as the executive chairman of News Corporation, which owns the Times, it seems reasonable to assume that he would not have paid full price. 
   
   He, or his representative, did shell out extra for a black border. 
   
   News Corp Australia journalists have been among those to congratulate the couple on social media. 
   
   Luke Dennehy (@LukeDennehy) Congratulations to @rupertmurdoch and Jerry Hall on their engagement. 
   
   This will be Murdoch’s fourth marriage, and Hall’s second – or first, depending on how much credence you give Mick Jagger’s claim, made during divorce proceedings in 1999, that their Hindu ceremony in Bali in 1990 was invalid. 
   
   Murdoch has been married to former flight attendant Patricia Booker, journalist Anna Torv and most recently Wendi Deng, whom he divorced in 2013 after 14 years of marriage. 
   
   The Times quoted a spokesman for the Murdoch family as saying, “They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future.” 
   
   A source told the Daily Mail that “he is very happy, and she makes him laugh”. 
   
   Elsewhere the relationship has been credited as responsible for Murdoch’s “renewed vigour”. ||||| Former model Jerry Hall didn’t get what she wanted then, but is she now getting what she needs? 
   
   The Texas-born stunner is trading in life as the woman Rolling Stone Mick Jagger never married to become the fourth Mrs. Rupert Murdoch. 
   
   The November-December couple — she’s 59 to his 84 — made the announcement Monday in The Times of London, which Murdoch owns. 
   
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   “It’s ridiculous to watch them together. Beauty and the Beast,” said a source familiar with the courtship. 
   
   Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall seen at Twentieth Century Fox Golden Globes Party on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2015, in Beverly Hills, CA. (Eric Charbonneau/Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP) 
   
   Murdoch is executive chairman at News Corp., which also owns the downmarket New York Post. He has written checks for years to the tune of hundreds of millions to keep the flailing tabloid afloat. Despite his best efforts, the money-losing rag continues to be irrelevant, most say. 
   
   “Mr. Rupert Murdoch ... and Miss Jerry Hall ... are delighted to announce their engagement,” the London Times announcement read. 
   
   The unlikely duo apparently met four months ago and have been dating ever since. 
   
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   “They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future,” a Murdoch family rep told the London newspaper. 
   
   Others do not so warmly share their bliss. 
   
   “They say love is blind,” sniped a Murdoch insider. 
   
   According to the London Times, the bald and saggy octogenarian was introduced to the still-statuesque blonde in his native Australia by one of his sisters and a niece. The mismatched duo got engaged in Los Angeles over the weekend while in town for the Golden Globes, the report said. 
   
   Hall had four children with Jagger. 
   
   Their 22-year relationship ended in 1999. 
   
   Jerry Hall, right, shown in this 1988 file photo with Mick Jagger, (SUSAN RAGAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS) 
   
   Murdoch married Patricia Booker in 1956, but ditched the former flight attendant in 1967. That was the same year he married Anna Maria Mann, a Scottish journalist 15 years his junior who was toiling at one of his newspapers. 
   
   He divorced her in June 1999 and 17 days later married the woman his intimates nicknamed “The Gold Digger.” 
   
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   Wendi Deng, a Chinese-born businesswoman, had worked her way into the upper echelon at Murdoch’s media empire. She solidified her standing as a fierce protector of the family interests in 2011, when she slapped away a pie a comedian threw at her decrepit husband’s head as he testified about a phone hacking scandal at one of his tawdry London tabs. That earned her another moniker: “Crouching Wendi: Hidden Tiger.” 
   
   Murdoch dumped Deng in 2013 amid rampant rumors she had fallen in love with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The media mogul suspected the two had an affair and reportedly cut all ties with Blair, a longtime friend who was godfather to the youngest of two girls Murdoch had with Deng.
target: – Looks like there's still some life in the 84-year-old media tycoon the Brits know as the "Dirty Digger." Rupert Murdoch announced his engagement to 59-year-old former supermodel Jerry Hall in a discreet advertisement in the Times, reports the Guardian, which notes that the ad would have cost him $436 if his News Corp. company didn't own the newspaper. "Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace, and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia, and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement," the notice reads. Murdoch and Hall—who was in a long relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger that ended in 1999—started dating around four months ago and he proposed after the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday, according to the Times. This will be the fourth marriage for Murdoch, who split up with third wife Wendi Deng in 2013 amid rumors that she had been having an affair with Tony Blair, reports the New York Daily News. (After her split from Jagger, Hall said her daughters wouldn't end up dating womanizers like their rock star father.)