English actor and film producer Hugh Grant said his phone was hacked.
Actor Hugh Grant said Monday that he believes his phone was hacked by Britain’s Mail on Sunday tabloid – the first time he has implicated a newspaper not owned by Rupert Murdoch in the wrongdoing.
English actor Hugh Grant , star of “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and other movies, told an inquiry into media ethics that a 2007 story about his romantic life could only have been obtained through eavesdropping on his voice mails.
He said he could not think of any other way the newspaper could have obtained the story alleging that his romance with Jemima Khan was on the rocks because of his conversations with a “plummy voiced” woman the paper identified as a film studio executive.
Hugh Grant said there was no such woman, but he did receive voice messages from the assistant of a producer friend.
“She would leave charming, joking messages … and she had a voice that can only be described as plummy,” he said.
Grant sued the newspaper for libel and won.
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