Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking lawsuit with Murdoch-owned British tabloid the Sun

British actor Hugh Grant has settled a lawsuit against the publisher of the Sun tabloid newspaper over claims journalists used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house, his lawyer said in court documents on Wednesday.

His case was one of several lawsuits which were eligible to go to trial at London's High Court in January, but the actor has agreed to settle with NGN, his lawyer David Sherborne said.

He previously brought a lawsuit against NGN in relation to the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, which was settled in 2012, a year after the newspaper was shut down by media magnate Rupert Murdoch following a public backlash.

Grant vowed to continue that fight in a lengthy multi-post statement on X, saying that some of the money will go to press advocacy groups like Hacked Off, which was formed in the wake of the News of the World scandal.

But the rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to trial and the court awards me damages that are even a penny less than the settlement offer, I would have to pay the legal costs of both sides."

4 months agoPrince Harry is declaring victory after a London judge says he was a victim of phone hacking by the British publisher Mirror Group Newspapers.