"In a witness statement submitted to the court, the actor said the unlawful acts against her involved landline tapping my phones and recording my live telephone conversations, placing surreptitious mics on my home windows, stealing my medical information when I was pregnant and other monstrous, staggering things. Above all, it was the discovery that the Mail had tapped the landlines of my home phones and tape-recorded my live telephone conversations that devastated me, she said. I felt crushed."
"Hurley had to stop several times to compose herself as she recounted how she had been targeted by deeply hurtful and damaging articles. Her claim against Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, relates to 15 articles about her between 2002 and 2011. She is part of a group of seven high-profile figures bringing the claims against the publisher, accusing it of using unlawful information gathering."
"Associated Newspapers has denied any wrongdoing, previously describing the claims as lurid and preposterous. In written submissions, ANL's legal team said the allegations brought by Hurley were unsupported by the evidence before the court. It said the baseless claims were part of an attempt by the claimants' research team to create a case against ANL based entirely on spurious and, or, discredited information."
Elizabeth Hurley gave emotional evidence in the high court accusing Associated Newspapers Ltd of bugging her windowsill, tapping her home landlines and recording live telephone conversations. The claim concerns 15 articles about her published between 2002 and 2011 and forms part of a group action by seven high-profile figures alleging unlawful information gathering. Hurley said microphones were placed on her home windows and medical information was stolen while she was pregnant, and described feeling devastated upon learning of the alleged recordings. Associated Newspapers denied wrongdoing, calling the allegations unsupported and attributing them to spurious or discredited sources including a disavowed investigator statement.
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