{"id":2223634,"date":"2024-04-17T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-grant-settles-privacy-case-against-u-k-publisher\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:56:19","slug":"hugh-grant-settles-privacy-case-against-u-k-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-grant-settles-privacy-case-against-u-k-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant reaches settlement in privacy lawsuit with UK publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhugh-grant-settles-privacy-case-against-u-k-publisher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2223634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hugh Grant, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anthony-hopkins-defies-ageism-by-becoming-oldest-oscar-winner-in-history\/\" title=\"Anthony Hopkins Defies Ageism By Becoming Oldest Oscar Winner In History\">renowned actor<\/a>, settled a privacy\u2064 case with The Sun&#8217;s \u2062UK publisher\u200b after\u2062 alleging home intrusion and surveillance. Initially hesitant about a substantial\u200d settlement offer, Grant acknowledged the high costs of a trial. Despite News Group Newspapers&#8217; denial of the accusations, the dispute was resolved. Grant shared insights on the case via social media.\u200c This revised summary\u2064 efficiently captures the key points of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-threatens-to-sue-news-outlet-for-libel-and-character-assassination\/\" title=\"Riley Gaines plans legal action against news outlet for 'defamation and character harm'.\">news \u200barticle<\/a>, highlighting Hugh Grant&#8217;s settlement in a privacy case against a\u200c UK publisher, his initial reluctance to accept a substantial settlement offer, the high costs\u200c associated with a trial, News Group Newspapers&#8217; denial of the allegations, and Grant sharing details of the case on social \u2063media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hollywood star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh Grant<\/a> settled a privacy case against the U.K. publisher of The Sun after he accused it of burglarizing his home, bugging his car, and taping his phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 63-year-old English actor admitted, at first, he <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">did not want to accept\u201d the \u201cenormous sum of money\u201d he had been offered to settle with News Group Newspapers (NGN), but he realized the trial was likely to be \u201cvery expensive,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-68834392\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  reported. NGN has denied the claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">News Group are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I had accused the Sun of doing \u2014 phone hacking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-allows-hugh-grants-hacking-lawsuit-against-the-sun-to-proceed\/\" title=\"Hugh Grant's hacking lawsuit against the Sun can proceed, says judge.\">unlawful information gathering<\/a>, landline tapping, the burglary of my flat and office, the bugging of my car, the illegal blagging of medical records, lies, perjury and the destruction of evidence,\u201d Grant <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said in a lengthy thread on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HackedOffHugh\/status\/1780546172785987876\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X<\/span><\/a>  following the settlement. \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that I\u2019ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A \ud83e\uddf5\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HackedOffHugh\/status\/1780546172785987876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to accept this money or settle. I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court,\u201d he added. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to trial and the court\u00a0 awards me damages that are even a penny less than the settlement offer, I would have to pay the legal costs of both sides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy lawyers tell me that that is exactly what would most likely happen here,\u201d the \u201cLove Actually\u201d actor continued. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rupert Murdoch\u2019s lawyers are very expensive. So even if every allegation is proven in court, I would still be liable for something approaching \u00a310 million in costs. I\u2019m afraid I am shying at that fence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grant said that the money had a \u201cstink\u201d about it, noting that he\u2019s \u201cspent the best part of 12 years fighting for a free press that does not distort the truth, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">abuse ordinary members of the public or hold elected MPs to ransom in pursuit of newspaper barons\u2019 personal profit and political power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cNotting Hill\u201d star said therefore the funds he has received will be \u201crepurposed via groups like Hacked Off into the general campaign to expose the worst excesses of our oligarch-owned press.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NGN released a statement stating that the undisclosed settlement was reached \u201cwithout admission of liability\u201d and that it was \u201cin both parties financial interests not to progress to a costly trial,\u201d BBC noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hugh-grant-reveals-hes-thought-about-making-a-drastic-career-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugh Grant Reveals He\u2019s Thought About Making A Drastic Career Change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British actor Hugh Grant resolved a privacy dispute with a UK publisher, The Sun, after alleging intrusion into his personal life. Initially reluctant, the 63-year-old star ultimately accepted a sizable settlement offer. The case involved accusations of home intrusion, car surveillance, and phone tapping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2223635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1199755724.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1199755724.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}