Hollywood star Hugh Grant settled a privacy case against the U.K. publisher of The Sun after he accused it of burglarizing his home, bugging his car, and taping his phone.
The 63-year-old English actor admitted, at first, he did not want to accept” the “enormous sum of money” he had been offered to settle with News Group Newspapers (NGN), but he realized the trial was likely to be “very expensive,” the BBC reported. NGN has denied the claims.
“News Group are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I had accused the Sun of doing — phone hacking, unlawful information gathering, landline tapping, the burglary of my flat and office, the bugging of my car, the illegal blaggin …