Anna de Peyster, Author and Second Wife of Rupert Murdoch, Dies at 81

Anna de Peyster, an author and philanthropist who was Rupert Murdoch’s second wife and the mother of their children, Elisabeth, Lachlan and James, has died. She was 81.

She died Tuesday at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, after a long illness, the celebrity.land reported.

She and Murdoch were married from 1967 until their divorce in 1999, and she was a member of the News Corp. board from 1990-98.

Anna Maria Torv was born in 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland. She and her family moved to Australia in the mid-1950s. She worked as a clerk at the Daily Mirror in Sydney and eventually became a reporter, and after interviewing Murdoch, then the newspaper’s publisher, they married soon after he divorced Patricia Booker.

Elisabeth (co-founder of Sister Pictures) was born in 1968 in Sydney, followed by Laclan (now chief executive of Fox Corp.) in 1971 and James in 1972 in London.

De Peyster earned…