Miller accepts payout
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May 15, 2011, Sunday
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FILM star Sienna Miller accepted 100,000 pounds (US$162,500) damages and an unconditional admission of liability from a newspaper that snooped on her phone messages, a scandal that embarrassed Rupert Murdoch's News Corp while it seeks approval for a huge merger.
Miller, linked to fellow star Jude Law, was one of the main plaintiffs suing News Corp over claims reporters at its News of the World tabloid illegally listened to voice messages to get scoops.
The scandal has already cost Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman Andy Coulson his job and led to calls for greater oversight of Britain's ruthlessly competitive news media. Miller was one of more than 20 celebrities, including TV personalities, sports figures and former cabinet members, suing the News of the World for hiring a private investigator to hack into the voicemail accounts of their mobile phones.
Her case was expected to be one of a handful of lead cases against the newspaper that will set compensation levels for other plaintiffs.
The scandal has damaged News Corp's reputation at a time when it has been seeking government approval for a proposed US$14 billion takeover of British pay-TV firm BSkyB. Opponents want the merger blocked pending the outcome of a police probe.
One journalist at the newspaper was jailed in 2007 for illegally snooping on phone messages of a member of the royal household, but the paper maintained until this year that it was an isolated incident.
(Reuters)
Miller, linked to fellow star Jude Law, was one of the main plaintiffs suing News Corp over claims reporters at its News of the World tabloid illegally listened to voice messages to get scoops.
The scandal has already cost Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman Andy Coulson his job and led to calls for greater oversight of Britain's ruthlessly competitive news media. Miller was one of more than 20 celebrities, including TV personalities, sports figures and former cabinet members, suing the News of the World for hiring a private investigator to hack into the voicemail accounts of their mobile phones.
Her case was expected to be one of a handful of lead cases against the newspaper that will set compensation levels for other plaintiffs.
The scandal has damaged News Corp's reputation at a time when it has been seeking government approval for a proposed US$14 billion takeover of British pay-TV firm BSkyB. Opponents want the merger blocked pending the outcome of a police probe.
One journalist at the newspaper was jailed in 2007 for illegally snooping on phone messages of a member of the royal household, but the paper maintained until this year that it was an isolated incident.
(Reuters)
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