Harry and Other Celebrities Forced to Pay £9.5 Million to the Daily Mail
Judge Matthew Nicklin ordered the group to pay an interim share of Associated Newspapers’ more than £34 million legal bill after losing privacy claims.
- On Friday, Judge Matthew Nicklin ordered Prince Harry, Elton John, and five other claimants to pay £9.54 million to Associated Newspapers Limited by Aug. 28 following dismissal of their unlawful information-gathering lawsuit.
- Nicklin dismissed the claims last month, rejecting allegations that The Daily Mail engaged in unlawful activities like phone hacking and criticizing the proceedings as "speculative and substantially inferential."
- Associated Newspapers claimed total legal costs exceeding £34 million, with the judge ordering remaining expenses assessed on an "indemnity basis," a standard less favorable to the losing claimants.
- An ANL spokesperson called the ruling "another overwhelming victory for the Mail and its journalism," describing the failed suit as "a devastating critique" of attempts to damage the publisher's reputation.
- The ruling coincides with news that Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, plan to relocate to Britain later this month after six years in California, marking their return from the U.S.
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Prince Harry, Elton John and other celebrities will be required to pay an initial allowance of £9.5 million to the owner of the Daily Mail,
Prince Harry, Elton John ordered to pay tabloid $13M in legal costs | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
LONDON >> Britain’s Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other high-profile claimants face paying millions of dollars out of their own pockets to cover the legal costs of the Daily Mail’s publisher after a judge ruled today their failed privacy lawsuits were conducted in an unreasonable way.
The plaintiffs failed to prove before the High Court in London that the tabloid had intercepted voicemails or listened to telephone conversations to gather material for some fifty articles published between 1993 and 2018. The legal battle has since shifted to the financial front: Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) sought compensation covering a large portion of the £34.5 million (€40 million) it claims to have spent during the four years of pro…
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UK court orders Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay £9.5m after losing privacy case against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers Limited.
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