Two years ago nonagenarian multibillionaire mass media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his 60-something-year-old fourth wife Jerry Hall, the six-foot-tall Texan fashion model and actress who once shared a Paris apartment with Grace Jones and has four adult children with former mate Mick Jagger, splashed out about £11.25 million — that’s roughly US$15 million at today’s rates — for an 18th-century Georgian mansion set on about 26-acres near Henley-on-Thames, about an hour’s drive due west of Central London. Married in 2016 after a fairly brief courtship, the May-December couple turned around the following year and bought a 200-year old fixer upper in the Cotswold village of Great Tew, about 1.5-hours by car northwest of London. The gargantuan manor house is in dire need of a costly and comprehensive restoration, and, so the reporting goes, they plan to spend about £30 million on updates.
