Private Life
Elisabeth Murdoch's first marriage was to fellow Vassar graduate, Elkin Kwesi Pianim, an associate in the New York corporate finance department of the Rothschild investment bank. He is the son of economist and financier Andrews Kwame Pianim (a native of Ghana) and Cornelia Pianim (a native of the Netherlands). The wedding was held on 10 September 1993 at St. Timothy Roman Catholic Church near the Beverly Hills residence of the bride's parents. Murdoch and Pianim had two children, Cornelia (born 1994 in New York), and Anna (born 1997 in London), but divorced in 1998.
She later married public relations man Matthew Freud, the son of former MP Sir Clement Freud, and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud. They have two children: Charlotte Emma Freud, born 17 November 2000 and Samson Murdoch Freud, born 13 January 2007. The couple wed on 18 August 2001 in a ceremony at Blenheim Palace.
Elisabeth Murdoch's parents, Anna and Rupert Murdoch, separated in 1998. Anna Murdoch received a settlement of some reported $1.7 billion in assets, to which her own three children were the primary heirs, in addition to whatever share each might eventually receive from Rupert Murdoch's estate. Seventeen days after the divorce, on 25 June 1999, Rupert Murdoch, then 68, married Wendi Deng, then 30, a newly appointed vice-president of Murdoch's STAR TV. Anna Murdoch was also remarried, in October 1999, to banker William Mann. Elisabeth Murdoch, while her own first marriage was dissolving, made jocular reference to familial divorce in a speech at the time.
In 2008 Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud moved into Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, where they are key members of the Chipping Norton set.
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