Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall divorced after 6 years, 5 months of marriage. The settlement was reportedly an estimated $200M. See the full timeline.
Figures are reported estimates. Last updated Oct 2026.
Murdoch's fourth divorce.
Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate behind News Corp and Fox, and Jerry Hall, the Texas-born model and actress, married on 4 March 2016 at Spencer House in London, in a ceremony followed by a blessing at St Bride's Church on Fleet Street. Hall, then 59, had spent more than two decades with the Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, with whom she has four children. Murdoch was 84, and it was his fourth marriage. The couple had no children together, and the marriage lasted about six years.
Almost all of the wealth in this marriage was Murdoch's, and it was built long before he met Hall. He turned a single inherited newspaper in Adelaide into News Corporation, a global empire of newspapers, publishing and broadcasting that came to include The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins and the Fox network. In 2019 he sold most of the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox to Disney for about $71 billion and retained Fox News and other holdings in the new Fox Corporation. Hall's own career in modeling and acting produced a far smaller fortune.
Murdoch and Hall married in March 2016 and lived between London, Los Angeles and Murdoch's various residences. In 2022 the marriage ended abruptly. Hall filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court on 1 July 2022, citing irreconcilable differences and asking for an unspecified amount of spousal support. In August she asked the court to dismiss the petition with permission to refile, and on 11 August her attorney confirmed that the couple had finalized their divorce, which took the legal process from filing to completion in about six weeks.
No details of the agreement have been released, and no reliable settlement figure exists. The parties reached a private settlement and the court filing that would normally disclose the terms was dismissed, so the amount, the form of the payment and any property terms are unknown. Hall had sought spousal support, but whether she received it and in what amount has not been reported. Any numbers quoted in online summaries of this case are estimates, not figures from a disclosed agreement.
Without disclosed terms the size cannot be explained, but several factors would have shaped it. The marriage was short, about six years, which normally limits a claim on wealth accumulated before it. Murdoch's fortune was held largely through family trusts and company shares, which complicates any division, and the existence or absence of a prenuptial agreement, a subject of much commentary from family lawyers at the time, was never confirmed publicly. The quick, private settlement suggests both sides wanted to avoid a court fight.
The divorce had no visible effect on News Corp or Fox, and Murdoch remained in control of his companies. The business story of his later years has been about succession rather than divorce, including the question of how control of the family's media empire would pass to his children. Murdoch married again in 2024, his fifth marriage. Hall continued her acting career.
The Murdoch and Hall divorce is the smallest and shortest of Rupert Murdoch's divorces. His 1999 divorce from Anna Murdoch was widely reported to have cost about $1.7 billion, mostly in News Corporation stock, after a marriage of over three decades. The contrast illustrates how marriage length and the timing of wealth creation shape a settlement: Hall joined Murdoch when his fortune was already vast, and the marriage was brief.
Hall was 66 and Murdoch was 91 when the divorce was finalized. The marriage was Murdoch's fourth, following Patricia Booker, Anna Murdoch and Wendi Deng. Hall's earlier long relationship with Mick Jagger ended in 1999 in a separate and much smaller reported settlement, after a dispute over whether their Balinese ceremony had been legally binding.
Jerry Hall's reported settlement was about $200 million.
They married in 2016 and divorced in 2022, a marriage of roughly 6 years.
Reports say they had a prenuptial agreement.
Reported assets include: Cash settlement, properties.
Without disclosed terms the size cannot be explained, but several factors would have shaped it. The marriage was short, about six years, which normally limits a claim on wealth accumulated before it.
* Settlement terms were not publicly disclosed. This figure is an estimate.