The English actor was forced to settle in the same lawsuit with NGN that Prince Harry reached a settlement with this week.
Actor Hugh Grant has called for police to open an investigation into owners of British tabloid paper The Sun after Prince Harry settled his privacy claim this week.
News Group Newspapers expressed regret to Harry for intruding into his mother's life "in particular during his younger years". Under English civil law, a claimant who wins a court judgement that is lower than what they were offered to settle, has to pay the legal bills for both sides.Grant previously settled a suit with News of the World in 2012 over accusations of phone hacking.
Their lawyer said the newspapers had a widespread practice of using deception to obtain medical, phone and flight records, bugged homes and placed listening devices in cars.Grant argued a new police investigation was needed because people who were at the paper at the time that private investigators who carried out "unlawful activity" were instructed were still in "positions of great power".
The Sun and defunct News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers had given public apologies and paid out "substantial damages" to the claimants, according to their lawyers. In Grant's BBC Radio interview, he said "I have some sympathy, when I'm in a generous mood, for politicians terrified of the Murdochs".Mr Morgan responded to these comments on X, saying "REMINDER: Hugh Grant took many millions of pounds from Rupert Murdoch to make movies for him. #hypocrite.""The last time I worked for a Murdoch-owned company was in 1994," he wrote.
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