Anna de Peyster Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Anna de Peyster, an author and philanthropist who was Rupert Murdoch's second wife and the mother of their children, Elisabeth, Lachlan and James, has died. She was 81. She died Tuesday at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, after a long illness, the New York Post reported.