Jerry Hall has revealed that she has not seen Rupert Murdoch since their “traumatic” divorce.
The model and actor, 69, tied the knot with the media mogul, 95, at a ceremony in a Fleet Street church in 2016, shortly after the couple announced their engagement in The Times newspaper.
In the summer of 2022, Hall filed for divorce in a California court, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
“Not all exes you want to be friends with, do you?” she told British Vogue.
“Some people aren’t friendly. But I think when you have children with someone, it’s important to be friendly.”
She added that she and Murdoch “were married six and a half years and no children”, and noted that she hasn’t seen him “in a couple of years. Since the divorce”.
Such splits, she said, are “always traumatic”.
Hall was famously in a long-term relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, with whom she shares four children, Elizabeth, Georgia May, Gabriel and James, until the couple separated in 1999.
Murdoch, meanwhile, had previously been married to flight attendant Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967, journalist Anna Mann from 1967 to 1999, and entrepreneur Wendi Deng from 1999 to 2014.
Following the split from Hall, he proposed to Ann Lesley Smith in 2023, but called off the engagement just two weeks later.
He then proposed to molecular biologist Elena Zhukova in 2024, and the couple tied the knot in June of that year.
Hall was full of praise for Jagger, who regularly visits her at her home in Henley for Sunday lunch, along with his partner Melanie Hamrick and their son Deveraux.
“All the kids love each other,” she told the magazine. “All the mothers of the kids love each other. It’s just odd, isn’t it? Just worked out that way.”
“He and I get on really well,” she added. “I can only think nice things about him. You know, when you’re young, people get crushes on people and do stupid things all the time, don’t they? God, I’m so lucky that it doesn’t happen to me anymore – hardly.”
