(CNN) — The summer media wedding will no longer be.
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith have called off their engagement just weeks after announcing they would marry, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
Vanity Fair magazine, which was the first outlet to report the news on Tuesday, noted that “the breakup ends a whirlwind romance that generated headlines around the world.”
Rupert Murdoch proposed to Ann Lesley Smith in New York on St. Patrick’s Day.
Murdoch and Smith’s relationship went public earlier this year when they were photographed vacationing on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
On March 20, Cindy Adams, who writes a gossip column for Murdoch’s New York Post tabloid, reported that the two had become engaged.
“I was afraid of falling in love, but I knew this would be the last,” Murdoch told Adams. “It better be. I’m happy.”
Smith, who was previously married to the late country singer Chester Smith, described her relationship with Murdoch to Adams as a “gift from God.”
The two were scheduled to marry over the summer, according to Adams.
“We are both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” Murdoch had said.
The marriage would have been Murdoch’s fifth. Murdoch is chairman of Fox Corp. and CEO of News Corp.
It’s unclear what happened between Murdoch and Smith since the engagement was announced. A Murdoch spokesman declined to comment.
