Elizabeth Hurley describes 'monstrous' privacy invasion by Daily Mail in British media hacking case

Elizabeth Hurley has accused the Daily Mail's steadfast of tapping her phones and stealing her aesculapian records

LONDON -- Elizabeth Hurley accused the steadfast of the Daily Mail connected Thursday of tapping her phones, putting microphones extracurricular her windows and stealing her aesculapian records among “other monstrous, staggering things” during grounds successful a celebrity-studded privateness penetration lawsuit.

“The champion mode I tin picture it is similar determination is idiosyncratic peeping into your beingness and into your home,” the exemplary and histrion said. It “makes maine consciousness arsenic if my backstage beingness had been violated by convulsive intruders — that determination had been sinister thieves successful my location each on and that I had been surviving with them wholly unaware.”

Hurley testified the time aft Prince Harry choked up arsenic helium spoke of the affectional toll his conflict against the British media had taken connected him and his family. Harry showed up successful the High Court connected Thursday to amusement his enactment during overmuch of Hurley's testimony.

Harry, Hurley and Elton John are among a radical of 7 claimants who allege that Associated Newspapers Ltd. hired backstage investigators to unlawfully snoop connected them implicit 2 decades.

The steadfast denies the claims and has called them preposterous. It said that the articles were reported connected with morganatic sources and galore volition beryllium named by employees astatine the Daily Mail and Mail connected Sunday successful the company's defence during the nine-week proceedings successful London's High Court.

Hurley, who similar the prince brought akin telephone hacking lawsuits against the publishers of the Daily Mirror and The Sun, said that she was unaware of akin allegations against the Mail until she was told successful 2020 that Gavin Burrows, a erstwhile backstage eye, purportedly said that helium had stolen her accusation astatine the behest of the newspapers.

Burrows has since disavowed that sworn connection and said helium ne'er worked for the Mail.

Hurley claims 15 articles astir her betwixt 2002 and 2011 relied connected unlawful information-gathering. Several were astir the 2002 commencement of her son, Damian, and the paternity combat with his father, the precocious movie shaper Steve Bing.

“The Mail’s unlawful acts against maine impact landline tapping my phones and signaling my unrecorded telephone conversations, placing surreptitious mics connected my location windows, stealing my aesculapian accusation erstwhile I was large with Damian, and different monstrous, staggering things,” Hurley said.

She said she had hoped her son, present a exemplary and histrion himself who sat successful the courtroom, would ne'er spot those articles.

“I felt truly mortified that my lad would beryllium capable to work each this worldly 1 day, and I consciousness truly atrocious that that time is contiguous erstwhile each this worldly is being regurgitated," she said arsenic she became upset erstwhile shown immoderate of those articles successful court. “Yet again, everyone’s privateness is being invaded successful this unspeakable way, and I consciousness precise helpless astir that.”

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