Thursday, March 30, 2023

Liz Hurley Left 'Mortified' After Media Bugged Devices, Court Heard

A PRIVATE investigator hired by a national newspaper bugged Ledbury celebrity, Liz Hurley’s home, a high court hearing has heard. 

Ms Hurley is among celebrities like Elton John and Prince Harry who have taken action against Associated Newspapers the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers over years of alleged phone tapping and privacy breaches...

David Sherborne, who was representing Ms Hurley said in the written submission that she was left feeling “shocked and mortified” by the alleged targeting. He said a private investigator, acting on behalf of the Mail on Sunday, hacked their phones, tapped landlines, placed “a sticky window mini-microphone on the exterior of her home window” and bugged Mr (Hugh) Grant’s car to obtain “private communications with Mr Grant, her financial details, her travel arrangements and medicals during her pregnancy and birth of her son”. more

High profile individuals commonly have their homes, vehicles and aircraft swept for bugs.