Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall, with the couple's engagement after a four-month romance being announced in the classifieds section of British newspaper The Times.

The couple got engaged over the weekend in Los Angeles, where they attended the Golden Globes.

Mr Murdoch, the Australian-born 84-year-old executive chairman of News Corporation, which owns The Times, announced the impending nuptials in the Births, Marriages and Deaths section of the newspaper.

"Mr Rupert Murdoch, father of Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan, James, Grace and Chloe Murdoch, and Miss Jerry Hall, mother of Elizabeth, James, Georgia and Gabriel Jagger, are delighted to announce their engagement," it read.

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The pair started dating after being introduced by one of Mr Murdoch's sisters and his niece, and first made their relationship public in October at the rugby World Cup final in London.

Between them they have 10 children from previous marriages, and went on holiday with several of them on a yacht in the Caribbean after Christmas.

A spokesman for the Murdoch family said: "They have loved these past months together, are thrilled to be getting married and excited about their future."

No date for their wedding has been given.

This will be Mr Murdoch's fourth marriage and the second for the 59-year-old Ms Hall, an American, who married the Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger in 1990 in a ceremony in Bali.

When they divorced in 1999, Jagger claimed that they were not legally married.

Jerry Hall married Rolling Stones' lead singer Mick Jagger in 1990. ( Reuters )

Ms Hall also dated British singer Bryan Ferry, of Roxy Music, before leaving him for Jagger.

Mr Murdoch was previously married to Patricia Booker, Anna Torv, and most recently Wendi Deng, who he divorced in 2013.

Media reports surfaced at the time claiming Deng, now 47, was romantically involved with Murdoch's good friend and former British prime minister Tony Blair. Mr Blair denied anything inappropriate had ever taken place.

Wendi Deng Murdoch was the third wife of Rupert Murdoch. ( Paul McConnell: Getty Images )

With an estimated fortune of more than $15.7 billion, the Australian-born Mr Murdoch, now a US citizen, owns some of the world's most famous newspaper titles including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and British tabloid The Sun.

He hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2011, when British police arrested several journalists from his now closed News of the World for allegedly hacking voicemails of celebrities, soldiers and a murdered teenager for stories.

The scandal snowballed, with nine journalists from Mr Murdoch's empire finally convicted in the biggest police investigation in British history.

Less charitable social media users greeted news of the engagement with amusement, with one quipping on Twitter: "Love is not only blind but deaf and can't read ... And that goes for both sides."

But Australian Women's Weekly magazine, owned by rival German media group Bauer, dismissed such comments as "cynical," wishing: "Good luck to them!"

AFP