DUBLIN/LONDON (The Thursday Times) — Jemima Goldsmith, better known by her pen name, Jemima Khan, the acclaimed screenwriter, producer and former wife of Pakistan’s ex-prime minister Imran Khan, is engaged to Irish financier Cameron O’Reilly after a relationship that began away from the glare that has followed much of her adult life.
Goldsmith, 52, is reportedly set to marry Dublin-born O’Reilly, 62, a wealthy investor best known for his role in the smart-metering company Landis+Gyr and as the son of the late Sir Anthony O’Reilly, the Irish media magnate, businessman and former international rugby player. The engagement was first reported by The Mail on Sunday, which said the couple had been together for just over a year and had met through work in film and documentary circles.
Friends quoted in the report described the couple as “very happy” and said they divide their time between O’Reilly’s home in Switzerland and Goldsmith’s home in West London. O’Reilly is said to be intensely private, a trait that may appeal to Goldsmith after decades in which her personal life has often been treated as public property.
O’Reilly comes from one of Ireland’s most recognisable business families. His father, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, built a career that spanned rugby, Heinz, Independent News & Media—the publishers of The Irish Independent—and Irish public life, becoming both a symbol of commercial ambition and, later, financial reversal. Cameron O’Reilly followed a quieter but still influential route through media, private equity and technology.
After studying at Oxford, O’Reilly worked in his father’s media interests, including Independent News & Media and APN News & Media. His larger business reputation, however, was built after he moved into private equity and smart-grid technology. Through Bayard Capital, he took control of Landis+Gyr, the Swiss electronic-metering company, which was later sold to Toshiba in 2011 for $2.3 billion.
That deal turned O’Reilly into more than the son of a media patriarch. It placed him inside the emerging world of energy infrastructure, digital metering and smart-grid technology, a field less glamorous than newspapers but far more aligned with the future of global utilities. The Irish Examiner reported at the time that Tony and Cameron O’Reilly could together benefit significantly from the sale, with Cameron holding an estimated stake in the company.
For Goldsmith, the engagement marks a new chapter in a life repeatedly shaped by politics, media and high-profile relationships. Born into the Goldsmith family, she first entered a very different kind of public spotlight when she married Imran Khan in 1995. She was 21; Khan, then already a cricketing legend, was 42.
The marriage carried Goldsmith from London into Pakistan’s political and cultural world. She adopted life in Pakistan, raised two sons with Khan, Sulaiman and Kasim, and became associated with his early political journey. But the pressures of that life eventually became too much. When the couple divorced in 2004 after nine years of marriage, Khan said Goldsmith had tried to adapt to life in Pakistan but that his political career had made it difficult for her.
The relationship did not simply disappear after the divorce. Goldsmith has remained publicly connected to Khan through their sons and, more recently, through her criticism of his imprisonment in Pakistan. Khan has been in prison since 2023 and continues to deny wrongdoing in cases he says are politically motivated. Reuters reported in 2025 that he had been sentenced to 14 years in a land corruption case, adding to earlier legal troubles, while his supporters continue to frame the cases as part of a broader political campaign against him.
Hugh Grant and the London celebrity years
After her divorce from Khan, Goldsmith’s most prominent relationship was with Hugh Grant. The pairing drew intense attention in Britain, not only because Grant was one of the country’s most recognisable actors, but because Goldsmith herself had become a fixture of society pages after years at the intersection of politics, wealth and celebrity.
Grant and Goldsmith were together for about three years. In 2007, Grant’s publicist confirmed that the couple had split amicably, ending a relationship that had been followed closely by the British press.
The relationship placed Goldsmith firmly back inside London’s public world after her years in Pakistan. Where her marriage to Khan had tied her to national politics and questions of identity, faith and belonging, her relationship with Grant was interpreted through celebrity culture, red carpets and the British press’s fascination with upper-class romance.
Goldsmith was later linked to figures including comedian Russell Brand, literary agent Luke Janklow and screenwriter Peter Morgan. Some of those relationships were more public than others, but each reinforced the sense that Goldsmith’s private life remained difficult to separate from the media and cultural worlds in which she moved.
Over time, however, she has built her own professional identity. Her work as a producer and screenwriter includes documentary and scripted projects, including The Clinton Affair, The Case Against Adnan Syed and the romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It? That career shift matters because it also appears to be where her connection with O’Reilly developed: not through politics or celebrity, but through documentary and film work.
