Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith call off engagement 2 weeks after announcement

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith have called off their engagement, a source confirmed on Tuesday.

The 92-year-old Fox Corp chairman and Smith had planned to marry this summer. It would have been his fifth marriage.

Vanity Fair reported the break-up, citing one source close to Murdoch as saying he had grown uncomfortable with Smith’s outspoken evangelical views.

Murdoch and Smith, 66, met in September at his vineyard Moraga in Bel Air, California, and he called her two weeks later, Murdoch told News Corp-owned New York Post, which broke the news of the engagement.

Smith is a widow whose late husband was Chester Smith, a country singer, radio and television executive.