Anna Maria Mann dePeyster DSG (née Torv; formerly Murdoch; born 30 June 1944) is a Scottish journalist and novelist.

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Anna Mann dePeyster DSG
Mann dePeyster in 1981
Born	Anna Maria Torv (1944-06-30) 30 June 1944 (age 78) Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Journalist and novelist
Spouse(s)	Rupert Murdoch ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1999)​ William Mann ​ ​ (m. 1999; died 2017)​ Ashton dePeyster ​ (m. 2019)​
Children	Elisabeth Murdoch Lachlan Murdoch James Murdoch
Relatives	Anna Torv (niece)

Biography

Early life

Anna Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944 to[1] Jacob Tõrv, an Estonian-born merchant seaman, and Sylvia Braida, a Scottish drycleaner.[2] Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia.[2] 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 Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.[2]

Career

She started her journalistic career at the age of 18, working on Sydney's Daily Mirror,[3] and also worked as a journalist for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.[1] She later served on the board of directors of News Corporation.[1]

She has written three books.[1] 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.[4]

Personal life

She was married to Rupert Murdoch from 1967 to 1999.[1][4][5][6] They had three children:

• Elisabeth Murdoch (born 1968)
• Lachlan Murdoch (born 1971)
• James Murdoch (born 1972)

When they divorced in 1999, she reportedly received $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement.[1][5] She remarried six months later, to William Mann, a financier.[1][2][5] They resided in The Hamptons, in a house formerly owned by the philanthropist Yasmin Aga Khan.[2]

According to The Independent, the kidnappers and killers of Muriel McKay, wife of Murdoch's deputy Alick McKay, had originally intended to kidnap Anna Murdoch instead, but confusion arose when the McKays had made use of one of Murdoch's vehicles.[7]

In 1998, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.[8]

Her husband William Mann died in 2017. She remarried to Ashton dePeyster in April 2019.[9]

Bibliography

• In Her Own Image (Morrow, 1986) ISBN 9780688058876
• Family Business (Morrow, 1988) ISBN 9780449145678
• Coming to Terms (1992)

References