"the whole thing is just bizarre"

 

I read on the Internet this morning, Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch are divorcing.

They got married in 2016.  They dated for three months before becoming engaged.

Mr. Murdoch is now 91 years old.

Jerry Hall is 65.

One Reader Comment on the Internet said,

"I don't know Jerry Hall's character, but I can't imagine why someone who was Mick Jagger's partner for 22 years would marry Rupert Murdoch, especially since he's 25 years older than her.

The whole thing is just bizarre."

        This comment kind of matched up with my immediate shocked feelings when I first read that they were engaged back in 2015.  Shock and surprise.

        I first heard of Jerry Hall in either the late 1970s or the early 1980s, cannot remember for sure.  She was a model and had this long, blonde hair that often was over one shoulder.  She was Mick Jagger's date in New York City.  I saw photographs of them and thought, "What a glamorous life!"

I loved the music of the Rolling Stones, and at that time I thought a girl must be very very fortunate to date Mick Jagger.

        Time passed, and they were still together but not married.  Then they had a child together and I thought they really should get married -- like, right now.  (That "shotgun wedding" idea was still a thing, back then.)

        But they didn't get married.  They had another child.

        Then in 1990 they got married.

        They had two more children, one in 1992 and another in 1997.

        In 1999 Mick fathered a child with a young lady in some other country, and it was the last straw for Jerry with his cheating ways -- she started divorce proceedings.

        Then they didn't need a divorce because Mick went to court and said they weren't "really" married and the court annulled it because the marriage had never been registered.

These people exhaust me.

Jerry Hall was apparently exhausted, too.  She said Mick cheated and then would apologize, and he said he wanted to be with her and their children.  She said she "forgave and forgave and forgave and forgave."  

        When they were splitting in 1999, she said she still loved him but his repeated infidelity made her very sad and very depressed.  She said because of these emotions she "couldn't be consistent."

She just couldn't stand it anymore.

        In her book which was written after their split (published in 2010) she wrote that when she and Mick see each other now, it's pleasant, they are friendly, and when he drives away it's a relief that "I don't have to worry about what he's up to."

I thought her feelings and the decisions she made were very understandable.

And Mick Jagger is understandable, too -- he is a person who was always interested in a series of different relationships with a series of different women, not marriage.  The married state wasn't really right for him.  Although he did want to do right by their children.  (So then it's like being pulled in two different directions....)

I think Jerry Hall was kind of traumatized by the relationship with Mick Jagger.  They split up in 1999 -- she married Rupert Murdoch in 2016 ... that's 17 years of being single, for a woman whose personality-type is one that wants to be in love, and be married.  You can tell, when she talks in interviews, that she is naturally enthusiastic about love, and family.

        When her engagement to Murdoch was announced -- the outcries and pearl-clutching of public opinion!  Oy.  People were going, How can she marry him?  He's terrible!

----------- Internet Comments:

eternalsceptic

A man whose life's work is to sow division, cause chaos, increase the sum total of human misery and to profit from it.  Odious individual.

~ His 'achievements' include giving the ok for the lunatic fringe to take over existing right wing parties in both the US and UK, reducing journalism to badly written propaganda and giving airtime to various madmen, anti-science nutcases and barefaced liars.

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        I tried to understand it back in 2016, and the idea I arrived at was, she wanted to be in a happy marriage where her husband is not cheating, he loves her.

That was the thing she wanted-very-much-but-did-not-have with Mick Jagger, and she wanted to get that emotional need met.  People were screaming in Comments sections:  'she just wants his money!!' -- I did not see that, she has her own money, some from her Jagger relationship and some from her modeling career.

One Comment under the Murdoch divorce article said, "She wanted to be loved & treasured."

        That's what I think, too.

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