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Celebrity gossip can be a dirty, dirty business, and some are working to make it even dirtier. Reuters reports that British police are investigating a claim that journalists at Rupert Murdock’s British newspaper were conspiring to hack into the phones of celebrities, legislators, and even public figures.
Among those targeted by the mag were Jude Law, who is currently in London starring in an amazing revival of Hamlet, as well as Gwyneth Paltrow, Elle Macpherson, and former British deputy prime minister John Prescott. Apparently, reporters at News of the World were working with private investigators to access the cell phones of these celebs and publish anything they heard that seemed of interest in their tabloids.
The British police are taking this very seriously, as it brings up more debate about the ethics of British tabloids, which seem to have seen magazine sales falling since the internet.
New International, the ones who wanted to hack the phones, have already paid $1.6 million to settle court cases for three people that had their phones hacked.
New of the World has already been able to intercept voicemail messages and have also gotten access to personal things like phone bills and bank statements. Apparently, 31 reporters from News of the World and The Sun were able to get all this information through blagging, which is a form of deception where one person pretends to be another person to get information from banks and phone companies.
Well, isn’t it nice to know that we here at Socialite Life would never engage in anything like that? Frankly, it just takes far too much effort. And poor Jude Law. Here he is, being a super baller Hamlet, and then they gotta do all this to him. He should turn Shakespearean on them and stab with a poisoned rapier. Let’s see how they like that!
Gallery Info: Jude Law signs autographs for fans after a performance of Hamlet.
Irresistable Girl | April 18, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Like I’ve said it before when this story was mentioned regarding Sienna Miller as one of the victims, do these british celebrities think that it’s only jornalist that hacking into peoples phones, trust me there not they only ones I’m afraid. I know for a fact that Law Enforcement does it also (such as police and survilliance) in whole of the UK are using B.T Engineers to hack in certain peoples phones to monitor them undercover, because of so much corruption going on in law enforcement at the moment and tell you one thing though this hacking into peoples phones is nothing really new to the public either, most people know except for these celebrities that this type of operation being going on for years. So if these British celebrities think suing the media for breech of confidentiality and think it will be allover, afterwards because of all that money they be claiming from the media. These british celebrities certainly have another thing coming. I’ve said it before and hear it is again, my advise is to any victims of hacking, just be careful what you speak on the phone and if you got anything private to say to anybody especially ones that you trust and who you are very close too, just keep your mouth shut and speak to them face to face. Because at the end of the day, you don’t really know which third party is really monitoring your phone undercover.