DHAKA: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress-model Jerry Hall are to get married.

They announced their engagement in the births, marriages and deaths section of the Times newspaper, which is owned by Murdoch’s News Corporation company.

It will be the fourth marriage for Murdoch, 84, and the first for Miss Hall, 59, although she lived with singer Sir Mick Jagger for many years, reports the BBC.

The new relationship reportedly began in the summer. A spokesman said, ‘They have loved these past months together’.

He added they were ‘thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future’.

Australian-born Murdoch, who now has US nationality, split up with his third wife Wendi Deng in 2013.

American Miss Hall’s 23-year relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Sir Mick, with whom she had four children, ended in 1999.

Murdoch and Hall were first spotted together in public in October at the Rugby World Cup final in London between Australia and New Zealand.

The notice in the paper reads, ‘Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement’.

The Times reports the couple were introduced to each other in Australia by one of Murdoch’s sisters and his niece.

It says the couple got engaged while in Los Angeles at the weekend, where they attended the Golden Globe awards ceremony.

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