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

Biography

Early life

Anna Torv was born in

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'', 14 June 2013 Jacob Tõrv, an Estonian-born merchant seaman, and Sylvia Braida, a Scottish drycleaner.David Leser
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'', February 2000 Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia. 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,

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, New South Wales, Australia.

Career

She started her journalistic career at the age of 18, working on Sydney's ''

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'', and also worked as a journalist for the Sydney '' Daily Telegraph''. She later served on the board of directors of

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. She has written three books. Her first novel, ''In Her Own Image'', is about two sisters who fall in love with the same man on a

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close to the

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Personal life

She was married to

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from 1967 to 1999.Nathalie Tadena and Momo Zhou
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'', 13 June 2013 They had three children: * Elisabeth Murdoch (born 1968) * Lachlan Murdoch (born 1971) *

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(born 1972) When they divorced in 1999, she reportedly received $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash) from the settlement. She remarried six months later, to William Mann, a financier. They resided in

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, in a house formerly owned by the philanthropist

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. According to ''

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'', the kidnappers and killers of

Muriel McKay Muriel Freda McKay (4 February 1914 – ) was an Australian woman who was kidnapped on 29 December 1969 in the United Kingdom, and presumed murdered in the first few days of 1970. She was married to Alick McKay, an executive at News Limited and ...

, 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. In 1998, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Her husband William Mann died in 2017. She remarried to Ashton dePeyster in April 2019.

Bibliography

*''In Her Own Image'' (Morrow, 1986) *''Family Business'' (Morrow, 1988) *''Coming to Terms'' (1992)

References

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