Prince Harry sues Rupert Murdoch’s newsgroup for ‘significant damages’

London – Britain’s Prince Harry has settled a lawsuit filed by media mogul Rupert Murdoch against the UK newspaper group owned by News Group Newspapers, his lawyer told CBS News.

Presented by Harry World news. It is one The number of charges brought by Harry In newspapers in Britain.

“NGN has made a full and unequivocal apology to The Duke of Sussex for The Sun’s gross intrusion into his private life between 1996 and 2011, including the illegal activities of private investigators working for The Sun,” the statement read. said the court on Wednesday. The statement also included an apology for the actions of journalists and private investigators working for the World News Service.

“The NGN further apologized to the Duke for the extensive coverage and heavy interference in his personal life and the impact of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, on him, particularly at a young age. The statement apologized for the inconvenience caused to the Duke and for the damage to relationships, friendships and family. They asked and agreed to pay heavy damages.

On Tuesday, Emma Jones, a board member of the advocacy group working with Harry on the case, said the case had been scheduled to continue that morning, but both sides had appealed for more time because of the settlement talks. It’s going on.

“There’s going to be a huge amount of money going through their hands,” Jones said, but she doesn’t know the exact amount.

She said that Harry wanted “some kind of reception that would include NGN (the news group). An introduction, in a way, to what happened,” Jones said.

As negotiations resumed Tuesday, Jones said, “He doesn’t want to walk away from this with just an apology. He wants something concrete that can say well, you know, ‘At least I have this. I’ve made my point.’

Newsgroup has been the subject of numerous lawsuits over phone hacking and illegal data collection, involving more than 1,300 politicians and celebrities. However, the Sun newspaper has always denied that it was involved in any illegal activity or that senior officials knew of anything illegal and tried to cover it up.

Harry has previously said he would rather go to trial to get to the truth than get paid after other claimants settled out of court.

According to court documents released in 2023, Prince Harry said His own brother, the heir to the British throne, Prince William, quietly received a “very large amount of money” in 2020 from a wiretapping operation with Murdoch’s UK newspaper group.