The legal action initiated some time ago in the United Kingdom by Hugh Grant against the Sun has been closed with an out-of-court settlement, accused by the famous actor – as by other VIPs in the past and present – of repeated illegal intrusions and wiretaps in violation of privacy.
The actor's complaint – for years in open controversy with the sensationalism and methods of the tabloids of the British popular press – had targeted the corporate and editorial top management of News Group Newspapers (NGN), the publishing company that publishes the Sun and which belongs to the Murdoch family. And it referred to the enlistment of private investigators called to spy on the private lives of others on behalf of journalists of the newspapers through telephone interceptions or even bugs placed in the house.
Accusations that Ngn's defense initially rejected, dismissing such practices at most as a legacy of times gone by; but on which he ultimately preferred to settle, after having offered Grant “an enormous sum” – according to what the interested party declared today – in order to avoid a public trial. An undisclosed sum in his exact amount, which in principle the British and Hollywood star would not have “wanted to accept”, as he stated. However, he changed his mind after learning from his lawyers that the legal costs of a full trial, including various appeals and appeals, could have cost him “10 million pounds”.
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