A New Chapter for a Very Public Name
Jemima Goldsmith, the award-winning producer and filmmaker, has married Irish-Australian financier Cameron O'Reilly in what is being described as a major society wedding. The news was confirmed by her family on Instagram, with sister-in-law Jemima Jones sharing a celebratory post from the occasion — offering the first glimpse into a ceremony the couple had kept resolutely private.
Jones, who is married to Jemima's brother Ben Goldsmith, posted a photograph of herself and her husband posing beside a lily pond in the grounds of a grand stone building. Dressed in a flowing pale-blue dress with a colourful botanical pattern, she beamed alongside Ben, who cut a smart figure in a dark morning coat, pale-grey waistcoat and striped trousers.
'Celebrating Jemima and Cameron's wedding, with my favourite date, what a happy day!' Jones wrote on Instagram alongside the photograph.
Who Is Cameron O'Reilly?
The groom, 62, is the son of the late Sir Anthony O'Reilly — a man who was himself the stuff of legend: an international rugby star turned media magnate who built a formidable empire across Ireland, Britain and Australia. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Cameron spent a decade working alongside his father at Independent News & Media before carving out his own path in private equity. He subsequently led Swiss metering company Landis+Gyr, which was acquired by Toshiba in a reported $2.3 billion deal in 2011.
According to those close to the couple, Cameron is an intensely private figure — something that appears to have suited both parties as their relationship quietly developed away from prying eyes. The pair are understood to have met through their shared work in film and documentaries, with a friendship forming before romance blossomed over the past year or so.
'They first met through work and were friends for a while before that. He's a very private person, and Jemima is determined to protect that,' a source close to the couple told MailOnline.
The couple split their time between Goldsmith's West London home and O'Reilly's base in Switzerland. Reports of their engagement first emerged in May, though the relationship had largely remained out of the spotlight. Cameron has four children of his own.
A Life Lived Under the Spotlight
For Jemima, 52, the wedding marks a deeply personal milestone — and one tinged with bittersweet timing. It comes almost a year after the death of her mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, the celebrated socialite after whom London's iconic Annabel's nightclub was named. Her father, businessman Sir James Goldsmith, died in 1997.
Jemima is the daughter of Sir James and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, and has long occupied a fascinating position at the intersection of high society and serious creative endeavour. As a producer, she has earned Emmy nominations for acclaimed projects including The Clinton Affair, The Case Against Adnan Syed, and American Crime Story: Impeachment. In 2022, she wrote the screenplay for What's Love Got to Do with It?, which starred Lily James and Emma Thompson and won four National Film Awards.
Her personal life has rarely been far from public attention. She was previously married to Imran Khan — the Pakistani cricketer who later served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan — from 1995 until their divorce in 2004. The pair share two sons, Sulaiman and Kasim. In subsequent years she was romantically linked to Hugh Grant, with the pair becoming a familiar fixture on the London social circuit before parting ways.
Campaigning Continues Amid Celebration
The happy news arrives during what remains a difficult period for Jemima and her sons, who have been actively campaigning for Imran Khan's release from prison in Pakistan. Khan has been detained since August 2023 and has faced multiple convictions in cases he and his supporters say are politically motivated. In August, Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered his transfer to hospital following concerns about his health, though his family has continued to seek independent medical attention. Pakistani authorities deny mistreating him.
It is a measure of the complexity of Jemima Goldsmith's life that joyful family celebrations and deeply serious political advocacy sit side by side. But those who know her would likely say that is precisely who she has always been — someone who refuses to be defined by any single chapter of her story, and who is clearly very much writing a new one.
