Personal life and death
Torv was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch from 1967 to 1999.[1][4][6][7] She and Murdoch had three children:
According to The Independent, the people who in 1969 kidnapped and then killed Muriel McKay, wife of Murdoch's deputy Alick McKay, had originally intended to kidnap Anna Murdoch instead, and confusion arose when the McKays had made use of one of Murdoch's vehicles.[3]
They divorced on 8 June 1999 as a result of Rupert's affair with Wendi Deng.[2] Anna reportedly received $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement.[1][6] A later report said that she chose to take a "relatively small" settlement, comprising half cash and half property, of $US200 million, rather than go for half of his wealth, to which she was entitled under California law.[8] She said in a 2001 interview that she had been entitled to some of the seven homes they had shared, but walked away from that.[2]
She was instrumental in setting up a family trust at this time, to protect her children and to prevent Deng's children having a say in News Corp. In a 2001 interview with Australian Women's Weekly, she spoke of how badly Rupert had behaved, not only having an affair, but pushing her off the board of News Corp.[2][9] The trust gives the children born before this time (including stepdaughter Prudence, from Murdoch's first marriage) equal say in the fate of the businesses:[10] each would have one vote in the trust, while their father would have four. Almost all of the family's wealth is in shares controlling 40% of both News Corp and Fox Corporation, and is tied up in the trust, which is worth around $US6 billion.[8] The terms of the trust dictate that the four children would continue to have these votes after Rupert's death. When Rupert Murdoch made moves to change the terms of the trust so that only Lachlan would have voting rights in his companies in 2023, the other three children challenged this in court in 2024.[10][11]
She remarried six months later, in December 1999, to William Mann, a fina | 