Jemima Goldsmith’s first wedding, to a cricket captain, bought a decade of front pages. Her second, to the financier Cameron O’Reilly, was confirmed by a photograph her sister-in-law posted on Instagram.
Discretion is the Goldsmith asset nobody has ever put a figure on. It does not appear in the probate file, it cannot be traced through a holding company, and it is the only part of Sir James’s estate that all of his children seem to have received in equal measure.
Jemima Goldsmith, the screenwriter and documentary producer, has married Cameron O’Reilly, an Irish-Australian financier. The confirmation came this week from her sister-in-law, also a Jemima: Jemima Jones, who is married to Jemima’s brother Ben Goldsmith, posted a photograph of the two of them dressed for the occasion. “Celebrating Jemima and Cameron’s wedding, with my favourite date, what a happy day!” That is the whole announcement. No statement, no exclusive, no publicist working a Sunday.
Announced by an in-law
The engagement had already been reported in May, when the Mail on Sunday revealed the pair had become engaged after a year-long romance. Between that story and the ceremony at the weekend, nothing. Four months of a 52-year-old producer and a 62-year-old financier being left entirely alone, which for this surname is close to a miracle.
They met, it is understood, through their work in film and documentaries. She founded Instinct Productions in London in 2015 and wrote and produced What’s Love Got to Do with It?, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2022 and took Best Comedy at that year’s Rome Film Festival. He now works as an executive producer on documentaries and films. Two people who commission things for a living, and who therefore understand exactly what a release date is worth.
Compare the first one. She married Imran Khan in 1995, at twenty-one, and spent nine years as one of the most photographed women in two countries; the marriage ended in 2004, with the divorce finalised in 2005. She was also a close friend of Princess Diana, which in the nineties was less a friendship than a permanent press accreditation. Nobody comes out of that decade wanting a second wedding with a running order.
Two fortunes, neither of them stated
The O’Reilly side reads well on paper and reads carefully everywhere else. Cameron is the son of the late Sir Anthony O’Reilly, the media magnate and former Irish international rugby player. An Oxford graduate, he worked within his father’s newspaper businesses, including Independent News & Media and the Australian publisher APN News & Media, before moving into private equity. In 2003 he launched Bayard Capital; he went on to lead the Swiss metering company Landis+Gyr, which Toshiba acquired in 2011 in a deal valued at $2.3 billion.
That last number has been doing energetic work in the tabloid write-ups this week, usually attached to the word “fortune”. It is a corporate transaction value. No primary source substantiates a personal net worth of $2.3 billion for O’Reilly, and the outlets asserting one are not the kind you would want valuing your own holdings.
The Goldsmith side is older and hazier. When Sir James Goldsmith died in 1997, contemporaneous obituary reporting put his wealth at between $1.7 billion and $2.4 billion; the Irish Times noted at the time that a small financial management company would administer an estate generating income of around £80 million a year, with a large question mark over how two wives, a mistress and eight children would share it. Jemima’s own wealth is widely given as roughly $100 million across net-worth aggregator sites, a figure no primary financial source confirms and which should be read as media guesswork rather than accounting.
As for what the marriage itself does to any of this, no prenuptial agreement, settlement, joint-asset structure or trust arrangement has been verified anywhere. Two people in their fifties and sixties with six children between them, four of them his, two of them her sons with Khan, Sulaiman and Kasim. Families of that shape usually arrive with paperwork. Whatever exists here, nobody has seen it, and nobody has been invited to ask.
Ratified in Mayfair
The family sign-off matters more than the ceremony did. It is understood that many of Jemima’s relatives, including her half-brother Robin Birley, the owner of 5 Hertford Street, have met Cameron and get on very well with him. Birley’s club is where a certain part of London goes to not be seen; his and Jemima’s mother gave her name to Annabel’s, the Mayfair room her first husband Mark Birley built around her. The vetting in this family happens in places designed to make vetting invisible.
Lady Annabel Goldsmith died on 18 October 2025, aged 91, which means the wedding falls just short of a year after her funeral. Her estate and its disposition were the last Goldsmith story to draw a crowd. A quiet marriage is a gentler way for a family to reappear in print.
Several outlets ran the news against the backdrop of Khan’s circumstances. The court record is its own matter: Khan, 73, has been held in the garrison town of Rawalpindi since August 2023, convicted in a series of cases he says were politically driven following his removal from office in 2022. In August 2026 Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered him moved from Adiala jail to the state-run PIMS hospital in Islamabad for a medical checkup, amid long-running concerns about his health, with a further hearing scheduled for 16 September. None of that belongs to a wedding, and the reflex to staple the two together says more about the newsdesk than the bride.
What the Goldsmith children learned from their father, whose career produced ongoing clashes with the British press and frequent litigation or the threat of it, was not how to win coverage. It was how to give it nothing to work with. Sir James fought the papers in court for decades. His daughter simply declined to file a story.
So the record of the marriage of Jemima Goldsmith and Cameron O’Reilly consists of one photograph, taken by a guest, of two other guests, posted by the bride’s brother’s wife. You will not get a picture of the couple, a venue, a dress designer or a date more precise than the weekend. You will get a woman in a good mood, her husband beside her, and a caption about her favourite date.
