Anna Murdoch Mann
| Anna Murdoch Mann | |
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Murdoch Mann in 1981
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| Born |
Anna Torv 30 June 1944 Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | journalist and novelist |
| Net worth | US$1.7 billion (1999) |
| Spouse(s) |
Rupert Murdoch (m. 1967; div. 1999) William Mann (m. 1999) |
| Children |
Elisabeth Murdoch Lachlan Murdoch James Murdoch |
| Parent(s) | Jacob Tõrv Sylvia Braida |
| Relatives | Anna Torv (niece) |
Anna Mann DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch; born 30 June 1944) is a Scottish journalist and novelist. She was married to Rupert Murdoch from 1967 to 1999, and they have three children together.
Anna Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944 to Jacob Tõrv, an Estonian-born merchant seaman, and Sylvia Braida, a Scottish drycleaner. Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia. When they opened a picnic park outside Sydney and it went bankrupt, her mother left the family household. She has two brothers and one sister. Raised Catholic, she attended a Sisters of Mercy convent school.
She worked as a journalist for the Australian Daily Telegraph. She later served on the board of directors of News Corporation.
She has written three books. 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.
She was married to Rupert Murdoch from 1967 to 1999. They had three children:
When they divorced in 1999, she reportedly received $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement. She remarried six months later, to William Mann, a financier. They reside in The Hamptons, in a house formerly owned by philanthropist the Yasmin Aga Khan.
In 1998, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
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