Anna Murdoch Mann

Anna Mann DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch; born 1944) is a Scottish journalist and author.

Biography

Early life

Anna Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944.[1][2] Her father was Jacob Tõrv, an Estonian-born merchant seaman and her mother, Sylvia Braida, a Scottish drycleaner.[2]

Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia.[2] When they opened a picnic park outside Sydney and it went bankrupt, her mother left the family household.[2] She has two brothers and one sister.[2] She went to a Sisters of Mercy School.[2]

Career

She worked as a journalist for the Australian Daily Telegraph.[1] She later served on the Board of Directors of News Corporation.[1]

She has written three books.[1] Her first novel, In Her Own Image, is about two sisters who fall in love with the same man on a sheep station close to the Murrumbidgee River.[3]

Personal life

She was married to Rupert Murdoch from 1967 to 1999.[1][3][4][5] They had three children:

When they divorced in 1999, she reportedly received $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement.[1][4] She remarried six months later, to William Mann, a financier.[1][2][4] They reside in The Hamptons, in a house formerly owned by philanthropist Yasmin Aga Khan (born 1949).[2]

In 1998, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.[6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Megan Willett, Here's What Happened The Last Time Rupert Murdoch Got Divorced, Business Insider, June 14, 2013
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 David Leser, Anna and her kingdom, Australian Women's Weekly, February 2000
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The loves, lusts and passions of Rupert Murdoch, The Daily Telegraph, July 15, 2011
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Nathalie Tadena and Momo Zhou, Divorce Has a Hefty Price Tag for Celebrities, Billionaires, ABC News, August 20, 2009
  5. ↑ Ken Auletta, Rupert Murdoch Wants A Divorce, The New Yorker, June 13, 2013
  6. ↑ Pope Honors Rupert Murdoch, Roy Disney, Bob Hope