Prince Harry Settles Case Against UK Tabloid Publisher That Hacked His Phone
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Harry still has ongoing cases against the publishers of The Sun and Daily Mail over allegations of unlawful snooping.
LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper publisher has agreed to pay Prince Harry a “substantial” sum in costs and damages for invading his privacy with phone hacking and other illegal snooping, Harry’s lawyer said Friday.
Attorney David Sherborne said Mirror Group Newspapers had agreed to pay Harry legal costs and damages and would make an interim payment of 400,000 pounds ($505,000).
Harry was awarded 140,000 pounds ($177,000) in damages in December after a judge found that phone hacking was “widespread and habitual” at Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s, and that executives at the papers covered it up. Judge Timothy Fancourt found that Harry’s phone was hacked “to a modest extent.”
Mirror Group said in a statement that it was “pleased to have reached this agreement, which gives our business further clarity to move forward from events that took place many years ago and for which we have apologized.”
Harry’s case against Mirror Group, which publishes the Daily Mirror and two other tabloids, is one of several that he has launched in a campaign against the British media, which he blames for blighting his life and hounding both his late mother Princess Diana and his wife Meghan.
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