Rupert Murdoch with his second wife Anna and their 14-month old daughter Elisabeth at their home in London, in 1969. Photograph: Chris Ware/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The author and philanthropist Anna Murdoch-Mann, the ex-wife of the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday. She was 81.

Murdoch-Mann’s death was reported Friday by the New York Post, one of her ex-husband’s media properties.

During 31 years of marriage, Murdoch-Mann was reported to have played an active role in the building of Murdoch’s media empire, News Corp.

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