Hugh Grant Settles With The Sun In Privacy Battle

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Hugh Grant Settles With The Sun In Privacy Battle


Hugh Grant has settled in his privateness case with the writer of Rupert Murdoch‘s tabloid The Sun.

Grant, alongside the likes of Prince Harry, was suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) for alleged widespread illegal data gathering. He claimed journalists used non-public investigators to faucet his cellphone and burgle his home, his lawyer mentioned in court docket paperwork on Wednesday, in keeping with the BBC.

Grant’s case was one in all a number of that grew to become eligible to go to trial at London’s High Court in January. The phrases of the settlement haven’t been made public.

Grant is a big British film star, that includes in Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Paddington 2 amongst others and profitable a BAFTA for Four Weddings.

Grant was a sufferer of cellphone hacking greater than a decade in the past and has been one of the crucial vocal campaigners towards the follow, which blew a gap open within the UK newspaper business in the beginning of the final decade.

Prince Harry, in the meantime, has been concerned with many such lawsuits and was not too long ago awarded substantial damages from Mirror Group Newspapers. The Prince and a gaggle together with Elton John are suing the writer of the Daily Mail over allegations of illegal data gathering, which a choose not too long ago dominated can go to trial.

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