Jemima Goldsmith, whose former husband Imran Khan is seriously ill in a Pakistani prison, has married for a second time.
The 52-year-old award-winning film producer, who was a close friend of the late Princess Diana, exchanged vows over the weekend with Cameron O’Reilly, 62.
O’Reilly, an Irish-Australian, is the son of the late media tycoon and international rugby player Sir Anthony O’Reilly.
The couple’s engagement was revealed in May, following a romance that had lasted around a year.
Jemima’s brother, Ben Goldsmith, confirmed the marriage, while his wife, Jemima Jones, celebrated the news online, writing: ‘What a happy day!’
The newlyweds are believed to have met while Cameron was working as an executive producer on a number of documentaries and films.
Cameron has four children. Jemima has two sons, Kasim and Sulaiman, from her marriage to Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain who went on to become the country’s prime minister.
Jemima and her sons have been campaigning for Khan’s release from prison. He has been incarcerated since 2023 over corruption charges, which he strongly denies.
Jemima Goldsmith, 52, married multi-millionaire financier Cameron O’Reilly this week (Goldsmith is pictured in July 2023)
She married Cameron O’Reilly (pictured), a smart-meter and software investor and the son of the late media magnate and international rugby star Sir Anthony O’Reilly
Goldsmith’s first marriage was to cricket legend Imran Khan (the couple are pictured at their 1995 wedding)
After their nine-year marriage ended in 2004, Jemima went on to have high-profile relationships with actor Hugh Grant, comedian Russell Brand and Peter Morgan, the scriptwriter behind The Crown.
A friend of Jemima and Cameron told Our News Outlet previously that the couple were friends ‘for a while’ before their relationship became romantic.
The source added: ‘They first met through work and were friends for a while before that. They have been together as a couple for just over a year. He’s a very private person and Jemima is determined to protect that.’
It is understood that many of Jemima’s family, including her brother Robin Birley, owner of London club 5 Hertford Street, have met Cameron and get on very well with him.
The Oxford graduate spent a decade working in his father’s media empire, Independent News & Media, and later the Australian group APN News & Media before stepping down as chief executive in 2000.
In 2003, he launched private equity fund Bayard Capital, buying the Swiss metering company Landis+Gyr. He served as chief executive before selling it to Toshiba for $2.3billion in 2011.
The wedding comes almost a year after the death of Jemima’s mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, the socialite after whom Annabel’s nightclub in Mayfair is named. Jemima’s father, the billionaire tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, died in 1997.
Khan (pictured in 2022) is being held in conditions described as ‘barbaric’ in a Pakistani prison
Jemima, an award-winning documentary maker, has meanwhile been campaigning for the release of Khan, from whom she divorced in 2005.
The ex-cricketer turned politician was jailed in 2023 for corruption and remains behind bars after receiving further sentences in December last year in cases that he says are politically motivated.
Lawyers said last month that Khan’s health had deteriorated in jail conditions described as ‘barbaric’, prompting intervention from a Supreme Court which saw him transferred to a private hospital.
However, he was briefly taken instead to a government hospital where he was deemed fit to return to his cell – despite him reportedly losing 85 per cent of his vision in his right eye due to a blood clot.
Khan and Jemima’s sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, accused the British government of insufficient support and are hopeful to speak with Prime Minister Andy Burnham about it.
