The ex-fiancée of Fox Information proprietor Rupert Murdoch had a historical past of assault years earlier than assembly the billionaire media mogul, RadarOnline.com has realized.
In a shocking revelation to return shortly after Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith referred to as off their engagement this week, a brand new report printed by the New York Occasions discovered that the 66-year-old former dental hygienist allegedly attacked one other girl in San Francisco in 1988.
Based on the Occasions, the incident occurred throughout a society gala at San Francisco’s Fairmont Resort shortly earlier than Lesley Smith cut up from her first husband, California railroad inheritor John B. Huntington.
In the course of the incident, which was described by Reuters as “a shoving match between two San Francisco socialites,” the then-31-year-old Lesley Smith allegedly attacked a lady named Avelina Pritchard.
“She pulled my hair,” Pritchard informed the Occasions when requested concerning the alleged altercation roughly 35 years in the past. “She scratched me.”
Lesley Smith pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor assault and was subsequently ordered to donate $3,000 to a shelter for abused girls.
Much more stunning had been Lesley Smith’s claims that her first husband, Huntington, had been bodily abusive throughout their marriage from 1985 to 1989.
In 1992, whereas requesting larger monetary help from her ex-husband in courtroom, three psychological well being consultants corroborated Lesley Smith’s bodily abuse allegations in opposition to Huntington and claimed Lesley Smith suffered from post-traumatic stress dysfunction ensuing from the purported abuse.