Unlike Gates and Bezos, Jerry Hall will only get a small piece of the "pie" after his divorce from Rupert Murdoch
Everything related to their so-called love story happened in a hurry. They got married in less than a year of dating, Jerry Hall at that moment he was 59, a Rupert Murdoch 84 years old. They were together for six years, and these days the divorce of the supermodel and the media mogul and billionaire ended - and in record time.
Just six weeks after Jerry Hall filed divorce papers citing "irreconcilable differences" as the main reason, she and Rupert Murdoch have reached a settlement. A joint press release issued by New York PR firm Rubenstain said: “The divorce of Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch is final. They remain good friends and wish each other the best in life!"
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Gerry Hall, 66, left Murdoch with her head held high and reportedly with a bank account "weighing in" around £250m. Allegedly, the ex-husband has transferred two houses to her. However, that is nothing compared to how much they got Melinda Gates и Mackenzie Bezos from their divorces.
Jerry Hall was fortunate enough to hire a prominent New York attorney, Judy Paul, who is known for her celebrity divorce cases and has represented, among others, Drew Barrymore и Scarlett Johansson, and one hour for her services costs an incredible 1000 dollars.
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As the main culprit, according to the stories of those in the know, are Murdoch's children who could not accept Jerry Hall from the beginning. These are his children from his first and second marriages, who are very intelligent and competitive, especially Prudence (64), Elizabeth (53), Lachlan (50) and James (49). His daughters by his third wife Wendy Deng they are 21 and 19 years old and do not have too much influence on their father.
Apparently aware that with Jerry Hall in the game, their father's fortunes would diminish and when it came to their legacy, they tried to take it off center. Although Jerry Hall wanted to get the huge $200 million Montana ranch and the 14-acre Moraga Estate and Vineyard in Bel Air through the divorce case, her request was denied without a second thought thanks to the lawyer Robert S. Cohen who was Melinda Gates' lawyer in her divorce with Bill Gates.
Since they had signed a prenuptial agreement before they got married, she didn't have much "available". However, she received a house in Henley, England, worth $13 million and a house in France, which was secretly bought just for her four years ago.
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Where and when did their marriage go downhill?
Jerry Hall's friends, who met them at the end of April and in May, claim that they were incredibly happy, but as the "Daily Beast" reports, the marriage began to fall apart last fall when Murdoch decided to sell the three-story penthouse located in a building in Manhattan and thus a smaller apartment one floor down in the same building. That property is still for sale for $78 million, and when he decided to sell it, Murdoch reportedly asked Jerry to sign additional contracts stating that the apartment was part of the prenuptial agreement, meaning the supermodel would not be entitled to it. .
Murdoch reportedly generously offered his wife to trade her share of ownership of his Montana ranch, but his children reportedly objected, so it was never completed.
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Their marriage literally ended with an annulment email, and Murdoch told his fourth wife that from then on they should correspond exclusively through a lawyer, which deeply hurt Jerry Hall, who said at the time that although he had broken her heart, she is still in love with him. Her reaction surprised Murdoch as well – a week after everything became public, she officially filed for divorce in California, listing the address of the Moraga vineyard as her home address.
And that's exactly how Murdoch's attempts to protect his property with various maneuvers began. Notably, California is known as a "commonwealth state," meaning that when two people get married, they are considered one entity with respect to property ownership. Therefore, any property or assets acquired during the marriage are considered joint property and are owned by both spouses.
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Aware that this divorce will also cost him dearly, he made sure to protect himself. Jerry Hall's predecessor, Wendy Deng, reportedly received £380 million in her divorce from Murdoch in 1999, while her predecessor Anna, to whom he was married for 31 years, received $1,6 billion. However, for the media mogul it is all a trifle as his fortune is estimated at 19 billion dollars.
Apparently Jerry Hall has already learned her lesson from her failed marriage to Mick Jagger to pay attention to contracts and all other documents. She received only $14,9 million from her divorce from Jagger.
