Jemima Goldsmith – whose first husband, the cricket legend Imran Khan, is seriously ill in prison in Pakistan – has got married for a second time.
The Daily Mail can disclose that Jemima, 52, an award-winning film producer and close friend of the late Princess Diana, exchanged vows at the weekend with Cameron O’Reilly, 62.
The Irish-Australian is the son of Sir Anthony O’Reilly, the late media magnate and international rugby star.
The Mail on Sunday revealed in May that the pair had become engaged after a year-long romance.
Jemima’s brother Ben Goldsmith confirmed that the couple had got married last night and his wife, Jemima Jones, wrote online: ‘What a happy day!’
The newlyweds are understood to have met while Cameron was working as an executive producer on several documentaries and films.
He has four children while Jemima has two sons, Kasim and Sulaiman, with Imran, the former Pakistan cricket captain who became prime minister of his country.
Jemima and her sons are campaigning for his release from prison, where he has been languishing since 2023 on charges of corruption, which he vigorously denies.
Jemima Goldsmith, 52, married a multi-millionaire financier this week (Goldsmith is pictured in July 2023)
She tied the knot with Cameron O’Reilly (pictured), a smart meter and software investor and the son of Sir Anthony O’Reilly – the late media magnate and international rugby star
Goldsmith’s first marriage was with cricket legend Imran Khan (The couple are pictured at their wedding in 1995)
After their nine-year marriage ended in 2004, Jemima had high-profile relationships with actor Hugh Grant, comedian Russell Brand and The Crown scriptwriter Peter Morgan.
A friend of Jemima and Cameron told the Daily Mail 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.
