Jerry Hall filed for divorce from billionaire husband Rupert Murdoch on Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences,” six years after the pair married.
The 66-year-old mannequin sought unspecified spousal help and attorneys’ charges from 91-year-old media mogul Murdoch, in a California court docket submitting.
Hall stated within the petition filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court she was “unaware of the full nature and extent of all (Murdoch’s) assets and debts, and will amend this petition when the information has been ascertained.”
She additionally requested the court docket to terminate its potential to have the ability to award help to Murdoch.
Hall’s lawyer, Ronald Brot, didn’t instantly reply to Reuters request for a remark. Murdoch’s authorized representatives couldn’t be reached outdoors of enterprise hours.
Murdoch and Hall married in a low-key ceremony in central London’s Spencer House in March 2016. It was Murdoch’s fourth marriage.
The New York Times reported in June that the anticipated divorce could be unlikely to change the possession construction of companies he holds stakes in.
Murdoch, chairman of Fox News Channel dad or mum Fox Corp., controls News Corp., writer of the Wall Street Journal, via a Reno, Nevada-based household belief that holds roughly a 40% stake in voting shares of every firm.