This was before his coming together with Smith. They bonded over wine. “She and her husband also owned a vineyard and had been in the wine business,” Murdoch told his own title, the New York Post. “Last year when there was 200 people at my vineyard, I met her and we talked a bit. Two weeks later I called her.”
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It is thought the two have religious faith in common. Little is known about Smith’s early life, but when she gave a talk at the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills in California in January 2020, it was billed as “Rags to Riches to Redemption”.
She came from “humble beginnings,” and “defeated the odds”, said her biography on the club’s site. She was also described as “a cancer survivor [who] has risen from the ashes and has emerged a winner”.
This appears rather prescient now. Born in December 1956, Smith was awarded a scholarship to Idaho State…
