Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith, a 52-year-old British filmmaker, writer and human rights campaigner, has entered a new marriage with businessman Cameron O’Reilly, a 62-year-old financier of Irish-Australian heritage.
Confirmation of the union came through her family, with her sister-in-law Jemima Jones — married to her brother Ben Goldsmith — sharing celebratory images on social media, describing the day as a joyful occasion built around a shared date of personal significance to the couple. Jemima Goldsmith herself later broke her silence with her own post, thanking the wide circle of family and friends who made the day memorable for the newlyweds.
It is Goldsmith’s second marriage, arriving two decades after the conclusion of her first. She had spent close to nine years wedded to Imran Khan, the cricketer who transitioned into national politics and eventually led Pakistan as prime minister, before that relationship ended in separation in 2004.
Imran Khan currently remains imprisoned in Pakistan. Jemima Goldsmith’s two sons with Khan—Sulaiman and Kasim—recently alleged that the Pakistani ex-PM was being slowly killed in the Rawalpindi jail where he is lodged.
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O’Reilly was previously married to Ilse O’Reilly. They met on a blind date in 1992, became engaged shortly afterward and had four children. This marriage, unlike the Khan-Goldsmith marriage, has received considerably less media coverage.
This latest chapter marks a fresh personal milestone for a woman whose public identity has long been split between her creative career and her advocacy work, and it arrives at a moment when her attention has been visibly consumed by concern for her former husband’s wellbeing.
The nuptials are understood to have taken place over the past weekend, a timeline pieced together from the celebratory posts shared shortly afterward by close relatives and confirmed by Goldsmith’s own tribute once the festivities had wrapped. The timing is notable: it follows closely on the heels of public statements Goldsmith made only weeks earlier regarding Khan’s imprisonment, suggesting that even amid personal upheaval and happiness, her advocacy efforts had not paused.
Details of the precise venue of the wedding have not been widely disclosed, though reports described the gathering as a refined and intimate affair, consistent with the low-key manner in which the Goldsmith family has historically handled matters outside the professional spotlight. What is clear is that the ceremony took place away from the intense scrutiny that once surrounded her earlier, high-profile marriage into Pakistani political life, and that it drew an extensive circle of close friends and relatives into its bridal party.
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Accounts suggest the pairing between Goldsmith and O’Reilly grew out of a mutual professional affinity — both individuals are said to share an appreciation for cinema and documentary storytelling, a natural point of connection given Goldsmith’s own credentials as the founder of Instinct Productions and the creative mind behind ventures such as the culturally blended romantic comedy helmed by director Shekhar Kapur.
Goldsmith’s body of work extends beyond the screen into journalism, having contributed to and edited respected outlets including a prominent British political weekly and an American culture-and-politics glossy. That overlapping world of storytelling and media appears to be the thread that drew her and O’Reilly together.
The marriage unfolded with an unmistakably personal touch, built around a bridal party stocked with family rather than hired formality. Goldsmith’s own account named a set of close friends as her bridesmaids, alongside a handful of young pages, while her two sons with Khan, Sulaiman and Kasim, had the honour of walking their mother down the aisle.
O’Reilly’s side of the wedding party included his own relatives serving as best men, with a further group of ushers rounding out the ceremony. Goldsmith made a point of crediting the team behind her appearance — her stylist, along with two close friends she called her indispensable support system — and singled out her gown, an Oscar de la Renta design, as one of the day’s standout details. She extended her thanks further still, to the planners, florist, beauty team and caterers who pulled the celebration together.
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Among the well-wishers responding publicly was chef and television personality Nigella Lawson, who commented warmly on the post, calling it one of the best days and weekends and wishing the couple continued happiness.
This understated yet family-heavy approach to celebrating stands in contrast to the very public, very urgent campaign Goldsmith has been running in parallel — one aimed at drawing international attention to conditions faced by Khan during his continued detention in a facility near the Pakistani capital. That campaign has taken on real weight in recent weeks, with Goldsmith reframing her former husband’s situation as one that has evolved past domestic political dispute into a matter demanding international human rights scrutiny.
Central to Goldsmith’s argument are Khan’s decades-long personal ties to Britain — his education and cricketing career at Oxford, his years competing in English county cricket, and philanthropic contributions that include establishing the country’s first cost-free cancer treatment facility along with an accompanying university. She has also placed particular emphasis on the toll this has taken on Sulaiman and Kasim, both British citizens, who she says have watched their father’s declining health from afar, been denied visas, faced threats of arrest, and even lost access to court-sanctioned phone calls.
The juxtaposition remains striking: a wedding filled with sons walking their mother down the aisle and old friends standing at her side, set against a mother’s unrelenting public fight for those same sons’ father. It is a duality that continues to define Goldsmith’s public life — joy and advocacy, held together without either one receding.
