Price Harry, Duke Of Sussex, said his upcoming court battle with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers will be a money loser for him but provide “accountability’ if he wins the court fight set for January.
Harry has been suing UK tabloids for years with a recent victory over the Mirror Group Newspapers late last year. He’s one of only two plaintiffs still pushing ahead out of well over a thousand claims and 40 that joined his suit against News Group, publisher of The Sun and, formerly, the long defunct News of the World, over allegations of phone hacking and unlawful information gathering.
The publisher denies the allegations. A settlement would have been more lucrative “a hundred times over,” Harry told the New York Times DealBook Conference in New York.
He said he couldn’t talk too much about the pending case. “The hacking [claim] is almost 15 years old, the cover-up of the hacking … is relatively new, and I think that will be the piece that really shocks the world … The goal is accountability.
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