Church waived £100k Murdoch fee in exchange for good publicity

SINGER Charlotte Church waived a £100,000 (€116,000) fee to sing at Rupert Murdoch’s wedding when she was 13, in exchange for a promise of favourable publicity, she said.

Church, dubbed The Voice of an Angel, told the Leveson Inquiry she was asked to sing at Murdoch’s wedding to Wendi Deng in 1999.

In a statement, she said she was offered a fee of £100,000, but was told if she waived it she “would be looked upon favourably by Mr Murdoch’s papers”.