Rebekah Brooks, then head of the British tabloid The Sun, called Sienna Miller’s agent in August 2005 and asked if they could talk to the actress about her pregnancy. At the time, Miller hadn’t even told her family or closest friends about the pregnancy in question. the Sun forced her to make decisions “about my own body that I have to live with every day,” said Sienna Miller in London’s High Court this week.
After a comparison with Rupert Murdoch’s company News Group Newspapers, the The Sun publishes, she had accepted a substantial financial settlement, the exact amount of which is unknown. After an objection by Murdoch’s lawyers, the High Court had now decided on the exact wording of the statement that Miller and her legal team wanted to publish after the settlement. The court decided which allegations the actress can explicitly repeat.
Miller accuses journalist Nick Parker, who continues for the Sun works, pretending to have illegally obtained her private medical files through a middleman and thus found out about her pregnancy. Parker denies this. Miller also reiterated that she was convinced her friends and family were “exposed to the continued, extensive, and targeted interception of voicemails and illegal information-gathering activities by journalists SunAccording to Miller, who ultimately did not have the baby, she was assured that the newspaper would not publish this information about her pregnancy. In the end, however, it was printed anyway. Her life was almost ruined as a result gone far in accusing her family and friends of providing information to the Sun to have sold.
the Sun denies the allegations and tried legal means to prevent Miller from repeating them. The court ruled that Miller was at least partially allowed to do so.
Journalist Rebekah Brooks with her boss Rupert Murdoch.
(Photo: Olivia Harris / Reuters)
It’s not the first legal conflict between Sienna Miller and a Murdoch newspaper. In 2011 she received as part of the investigation into the wiretapping scandal surrounding the Sunday newspaper, which has now been discontinued News of the World Awarded £ 100,000 in pain and suffering by the High Court. the News of the World admitted to illegally hacking their phone.
In the current case, however, News Group Newspapers have not admitted any guilt. The line of the media company is, during the 2000s, as Rebekah Brooks editor-in-chief of News of the World telephone hacking was widespread there after Brooks’ move to the sister paper Sun However, in 2003 there was no illegal activity there.
According to her statements, Miller agreed to the settlement due to a lack of financial resources
Nonetheless, the company has repeatedly paid large sums of money to people who support the Sun accused of illegal information gathering. These included footballer Paul Gascoigne, who also made a comparison this week with the Sun agreed. According to Gascoigne, the release of personal medical information had “devastating and debilitating effects” on his mental health and well-being.
Miller says he has agreed to the settlement because she lacks the financial means to bring legal proceedings against the Murdoch Empire. However, she is ready to take part in any future proceedings against the Sun like to testify. “In this process, I learned firsthand,” says Miller, “how far this newspaper and this company go to protect their top executives from exposure and from being felt the consequences of their actions.”
After this comparison, attention turns to Prince Harry. This throws the Sun alleged bugging his wife Meghan Markle’s phone. Unlike Sienna Miller, the Duke of Sussex and his wife would have the resources to go to court.