The notice was filed by Ms Hall's attorney in California, Ronald Brot, and was dated Tuesday, August 9. The 65-year-old former supermodel sparked a mystery when it emerged on Wednesday that she had asked the Los Angeles Superior Court to cancel the divorce petition. There has been shock about the speed of the divorce given Mr Murdoch's £14billion fortune. There is also a Mayfair apartment for when the media mogul is in London. The family’s other properties, believed to be held in trust, include a $50million New York apartment, a ranch in California, a $30million winery in Los Angeles, and a sheep and cattle farm in Mr Murdoch’s native Australia. Last December the couple spent £228million on a 340,000-acre cattle ranch near Yellowstone Park in the US state of Montana. A year later, it emerged they had snapped up Great Tew Manor – a ‘doer-upper’ in the Cotswolds which was earmarked for a £30 million restoration project. In 2019, the couple bought an £11.25 million Georgian property near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. This would have been drafted with the ‘anticipation of not interfering with the line of succession’ for the tycoon’s business empire. He said that Mr Murdoch is likely to have signed a ‘fairly generous’ pre-nuptial agreement.
He is also likely to give her several of the properties they have bought in their time together – or significant amounts of cash to buy her new ones’. It is going to cost him multi-millions of pounds each year.
‘I suspect that he will have agreed to pay for Ms Hall’s staff, jets, cars and lifestyle. His tax affairs would also have come under scrutiny.
He said: 'Murdoch has now realised it is better to get a deal done quickly rather than face proceedings in California, where he faces losing 50 per cent of the cash and assets he has built up during their marriage. Lawyer Mark Stephens, of the Howard Kennedy firm, told MailOnline today that Ms Hall's choice of California for divorce proceedings will have forced him to seek a deal quickly 'because he has more money than he knows what to do with and can spend it to make the problem go away'. After they married in 2016 Rupert and Jerry have spent more than £250million on property on both sides of the Atlantic - and Mr Murdoch's net worth has risen from around £9.8billion to £14.7billion since they walked down the aisle six years ago. Murdoch's offer may also have been hastened by the threat of everything he earned since they wed in 2016 being shared 50/50 and his tax affairs being made public.Ĭalifornia is a community property state, meaning that any cash, assets and property acquired during the marriage is split in two by default. This morning's announcement came just five weeks after their split became public - but the former couple insist they 'remain good friends'.Įxperts have said that the filing of the divorce in California, rather than in the UK where they were married, will have influenced the kind of deal agreed - and its breakneck speed. Jerry Hall and billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch have sensationally finalised their quickie divorce in the US - giving the former supermodel the pick of their £250million of homes and her VIP lifestyle bankrolled in perpetuity, experts told MailOnline today.
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