Prince Harry Can’t Add Rupert Murdoch, Princess Diana, Meghan Markle Claims to Tabloid Snooping Suit
Prince Harry was not allowed to amend his upcoming lawsuit against News Group Newspapers with several new allegations, some of which pertained to media mogul Rupert Murdoch and others that involved his late mother, Princess Diana, and wife Meghan Markle.
Harry and the more than 40 other plaintiffs involved in the suit filed the potential amendments back in March. Among the biggest proposed claims was that Murdoch, who owns News Group Newspapers, was aware of the criminal activity allegedly taking place at his papers, such as phone hacking and other unlawful information-gathering techniques.
Harry and the more than 40 other plaintiffs involved in the suit filed the potential amendments back in March. Among the biggest proposed claims was that Murdoch, who owns News Group Newspapers, was aware of the criminal activity allegedly taking place at his papers, such as phone hacking and other unlawful information-gathering techniques.
- 5/21/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Prince Harry cannot expand his privacy lawsuit against the publisher of U.K. tabloid The Sun to include allegations against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and presenter Piers Morgan, a London judge has ruled.
The Duke of Sussex’s lawyers were hoping to sue over claims that Murdoch and other top executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering. The prince alleges that he was targeted by journalists and private investigators working for News Group Newspapers (Ngn) titles The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World, which closed in 2011.
In March, he sought to amend his case to add new allegations, including that The Sun ordered private investigators to target his now-wife Meghan in 2016. He was further refused permission to push the timeline of the case back to 1994 and 1995, to include allegations involving his late mother, Princess Diana, as Judge Timothy Fancourt of...
The Duke of Sussex’s lawyers were hoping to sue over claims that Murdoch and other top executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering. The prince alleges that he was targeted by journalists and private investigators working for News Group Newspapers (Ngn) titles The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World, which closed in 2011.
In March, he sought to amend his case to add new allegations, including that The Sun ordered private investigators to target his now-wife Meghan in 2016. He was further refused permission to push the timeline of the case back to 1994 and 1995, to include allegations involving his late mother, Princess Diana, as Judge Timothy Fancourt of...
- 5/21/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is now being named by Prince Harry’s attorney as one of many News Corp. executives who allegedly knew the breadth of the company’s use of illegal news-gathering tactics and conspired to destroy evidence as the phone hacking scandal exploded over a decade ago.
The allegation came from attorney David Sherborne during a three-day hearing in London as the Duke of Sussex, actor Hugh Grant and others seek to amend their lawsuit against the company to include the charge that top brass, including then-executive chairman Murdoch, were fully aware that public statements downplaying the company’s use of phone hacking and other illegal tactics at News Group Newspapers (Ngn) were untrue.
During the first of a three-day hearing in the High Court, Harry and other claimants sought to amend their lawsuit against the publisher to include these allegations against executives, saying they were part of...
The allegation came from attorney David Sherborne during a three-day hearing in London as the Duke of Sussex, actor Hugh Grant and others seek to amend their lawsuit against the company to include the charge that top brass, including then-executive chairman Murdoch, were fully aware that public statements downplaying the company’s use of phone hacking and other illegal tactics at News Group Newspapers (Ngn) were untrue.
During the first of a three-day hearing in the High Court, Harry and other claimants sought to amend their lawsuit against the publisher to include these allegations against executives, saying they were part of...
- 3/21/2024
- by Kevin Dolak
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Corruption, a new play by Oslo playwright J.T. Rogers about the phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in 2011, will be produced by Lincoln Center Theater this winter in a production that will reunite Rogers with his Oslo director Bartlett Sher.
Based on the book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and The Corruption of Britain by former British Labour Party MP Tom Watson and Martin Hickman, Corruption begins previews Thursday, February 15, 2024, at Lct’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Opening night is Monday, March 11.
Casting will be announced at a later date.
According to the official synopsis, Corruption “tells the story behind the story of the phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in 2011, stunning the world and upending British politics. When Parliament member Tom Watson is maliciously smeared by the newspapers of Murdoch’s News International, he decides to fight back – taking on its larger-than-life leader Rebekah Brooks.
Based on the book Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and The Corruption of Britain by former British Labour Party MP Tom Watson and Martin Hickman, Corruption begins previews Thursday, February 15, 2024, at Lct’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Opening night is Monday, March 11.
Casting will be announced at a later date.
According to the official synopsis, Corruption “tells the story behind the story of the phone hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in 2011, stunning the world and upending British politics. When Parliament member Tom Watson is maliciously smeared by the newspapers of Murdoch’s News International, he decides to fight back – taking on its larger-than-life leader Rebekah Brooks.
- 11/9/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC’s highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker was suspended and swiftly reinstated in March during an impartiality meltdown that rocked the British broadcaster.
Deadline has obtained documents under a Freedom of Information Act request that provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how Director General Tim Davie responded to the crisis.
Diary extracts and emails reveal that Davie was in contact with a senior government official on the day of Lineker’s suspension. The papers also reveal the frantic weekend meetings that took place to reinstate Lineker after his suspension wreaked havoc on the BBC’s Premier League coverage.
Scroll on for the timeline, which brings together the documents obtained by Deadline, as well as details from sources, and information already in the public domain.
March 7, Tuesday
At 2Pm, Tim Davie emerged from a lunch with Rebekah Brooks, the woman who runs Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the UK, when Gary...
Deadline has obtained documents under a Freedom of Information Act request that provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how Director General Tim Davie responded to the crisis.
Diary extracts and emails reveal that Davie was in contact with a senior government official on the day of Lineker’s suspension. The papers also reveal the frantic weekend meetings that took place to reinstate Lineker after his suspension wreaked havoc on the BBC’s Premier League coverage.
Scroll on for the timeline, which brings together the documents obtained by Deadline, as well as details from sources, and information already in the public domain.
March 7, Tuesday
At 2Pm, Tim Davie emerged from a lunch with Rebekah Brooks, the woman who runs Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in the UK, when Gary...
- 6/27/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Sienna Miller says she was left “traumatized” by alleged phone hacking to the point she “blacked out.”
It was in 2005 that news broke Miller’s then partner, Jude Law, was having an affair with his children’s nanny. The scandal dominated headlines at the time.
In a new BBC documentary, “Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial,” the actor reveals that two days after the news broke she found out she was pregnant. A short while later, she alleges she received a call from British tabloid The Sun saying they knew about the pregnancy and wanted to break the story.
Miller’s then-publicist, Ciara Parkes, who also features in the doc, alleges the call about the pregnancy came from The Sun’s former editor, Rebekah Brooks. denies this account and says Brooks was aware of any unlawful information gathering).
“I had to tell Sienna that [the story about the pregnancy] had come out,” Parkes says in the doc.
It was in 2005 that news broke Miller’s then partner, Jude Law, was having an affair with his children’s nanny. The scandal dominated headlines at the time.
In a new BBC documentary, “Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial,” the actor reveals that two days after the news broke she found out she was pregnant. A short while later, she alleges she received a call from British tabloid The Sun saying they knew about the pregnancy and wanted to break the story.
Miller’s then-publicist, Ciara Parkes, who also features in the doc, alleges the call about the pregnancy came from The Sun’s former editor, Rebekah Brooks. denies this account and says Brooks was aware of any unlawful information gathering).
“I had to tell Sienna that [the story about the pregnancy] had come out,” Parkes says in the doc.
- 6/15/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: It’s a year to the day since Rupert Murdoch’s big British television bet TalkTV took flight, hitched firmly to the wings of Piers Morgan.
In the pre-launch marketing blitz, Morgan was pictured as half angel, half devil, but there was little doubt that News Corp’s UK arm thought he would be manna from heaven for television audiences.
“Love him or hate him, you won’t want to miss him,” ran the poster line, dwarfing branding for TalkTV, the new network he was spearheading. The message seemed clear: TalkTV was Piers TV. Morgan vision made real.
It was a mistake. Or at least that’s the view of Richard Wallace, the man who was parachuted in to run TalkTV three months after its launch. “He said very clearly, in front of all staff, that building a TV station around the cult of an individual is not the way to go,...
In the pre-launch marketing blitz, Morgan was pictured as half angel, half devil, but there was little doubt that News Corp’s UK arm thought he would be manna from heaven for television audiences.
“Love him or hate him, you won’t want to miss him,” ran the poster line, dwarfing branding for TalkTV, the new network he was spearheading. The message seemed clear: TalkTV was Piers TV. Morgan vision made real.
It was a mistake. Or at least that’s the view of Richard Wallace, the man who was parachuted in to run TalkTV three months after its launch. “He said very clearly, in front of all staff, that building a TV station around the cult of an individual is not the way to go,...
- 4/25/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Prince Harry’s battle with the British tabloids will continue this week with the preliminary hearing into his action against The Sun newspaper set to take place in London Tuesday.
Harry is seeking a minimum of £200,000 in damages, alleging that Britain’s best selling tabloid hacked into his voicemails and hired private investigators to track his relationships during the 2000s.
The Guardian reports that his suit cites more than 100 alleged payments made to investigators or those hacking his phone.
In awkward timing, the hearing will take place 10 days before the coronation of his father, King Charles – one of the family Harry claimed had concocted a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers not to bring legal cases against the press.
In his memoir, Harry called News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks “an infected pustule on the arse of humanity,...
Harry is seeking a minimum of £200,000 in damages, alleging that Britain’s best selling tabloid hacked into his voicemails and hired private investigators to track his relationships during the 2000s.
The Guardian reports that his suit cites more than 100 alleged payments made to investigators or those hacking his phone.
In awkward timing, the hearing will take place 10 days before the coronation of his father, King Charles – one of the family Harry claimed had concocted a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers not to bring legal cases against the press.
In his memoir, Harry called News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks “an infected pustule on the arse of humanity,...
- 4/23/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
London – After the prosecution in the phone-hacking trial here made its case over the past three and a half months, Rebekah Brooks spoke from the witness stand for the first time Thursday as her lawyer started her defense work. Her lawyer, Jonathan Laidlaw, told the jurors in his introductory comments that they must decide whether Brooks committed any of the crimes she is charged with, but reminded them that she was not on trial for having worked for Rupert Murdoch or having been the editor of a tabloid. Brooks, wearing a dark blue dress and white cardigan top,
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- 2/20/2014
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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