Ann Lesley Smith

Smith worked as a Christian minister for the Manteca Police Department and the Marin County Sheriff's Office, before returning to journalism.

[4] Later she volunteered[6] as a Christian minister doing prison chaplaincy[8] for the Manteca Police Department and the Marin County Sheriff's Office,[9] before returning to journalism, working for Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group.

[1] In 1988, Reuters reported that Smith pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault, "a shoving match", at a social gala on a dance floor in the Fairmont San Francisco.

In 2005, at 47,[15] she married American musician and radio and television broadcaster Chester Smith, aged 74, wedded until his death in 2008.

[17][18][19]Smith became engaged to Australian-American business magnate[8] and billionaire[20] Rupert Murdoch on March 17, 2023, in New York City.

[20] In March 2023, author Rhonda Garelick reported on the age difference (26 years) and the imbalance of power between the billionaire and Smith and questioned if the engagement was strategically timed to deflect attention from Murdoch's court case with Dominion Voting Systems.