Rupert Murdoch is seen on vacation with a new partner

It’s been less than six months since he finalized his divorce from his fourth wife, Jerry Hall.

But media baron Rupert Murdoch has been spotted enjoying a vacation with a new partner.

The 91-year-old billionaire was seen sunbathing in Barbados in the company of Ann-Lesley Smith, a former police chaplain and widow of American country music star Chester Smith.

The couple, who met in November, dined on a public beach with Ms Smith wearing a yellow halter-neck bikini and matching sarong with a large diamond crucifix. They were said to be spending time on the Caribbean island at the invitation of British billionaire Anthony Bamford, chairman of JCB.

Ms. Smith graduated from college in the 1970s and before marrying the singer, who also owned 13 television stations in California and Oregon, was in an abusive first marriage that she says led to find God and become a volunteer police chaplain in Marin. County, California.

Now a local radio host, she told the Christian Broadcasting Network America: ‘When I started walking with God, the things of the world seemed meaningless to me.’

She and Smith released an album, Captured by Love, in 2005. Three years later, after separating from her and remarrying, he died of a heart attack at age 78.

Murdoch has been divorced four times. He was married to former flight attendant Patricia Booker from 1956 to 1967 and to journalist Anna Torv from 1967 to 1998. He then married Chinese-born businesswoman Wendy Deng, 38 years his junior, but filed for divorce in 2013.

Murdoch married Hall, the former long-term partner of Rolling Stone magazine’s Sir Mick Jagger, two months after their surprise engagement announcement in The Times in 2016.

The 66-year-old former model filed for divorce in July last year. Last night, a friend of Mr. Murdoch’s said: “He seems very happy.”