Grant, alongside Prince Harry, was suing News Group Newspapers for alleged widespread unlawful information gathering, including landline tapping and burglary.
, he said on Wednesday, while the lawyer for Prince Harry said the royal could also be “forced” to agree a deal.His case was one of several which were eligible to go to trial at London’s High Court in January, but the actor said he had reluctantly settled with NGN because he could be left with a multi-million pound legal bill if he rejected their offer now, even if he later won the lawsuit.of doing,” Grant posted on X.
“The Duke of Sussex is subject to the same issues that Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant have been subject to, which is that offers are made make it impossible for them to go ahead,” Sherborne said.NGN said the settlement with Grant was “in both parties’ financial interests not to progress to a costly trial”.
Grant has become a prominent campaigner on press reform since the phone-hacking scandal emerged more than a decade ago, and had joined forces with Harry in recent years. He had accusedAs is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.tabloid which was settled in 2012, a year after NGN issued an apology to victims and media magnate Murdoch shut the newspaper down following a public backlash over hacking.
He and other claimants last month sought to drag Murdoch into the case, alleging he was personally involved in a cover-up of wrongdoing, with a ruling on their application still pending.
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