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Friday 20 January 5:55 p.m.
JUDE LAW has opened up about the "appalling"
way he was targeted at the hands of a British tabloid, following a phone
hacking settlement from the publishers.
The Sherlock
Holmes star sued for breach of privacy and confidence against Rupert Murdoch's
now-defunct News of the World, which closed last July (11) after 168 years amid
the fallout from the hacking scandal.
Law, who
alleged his cell phone voicemail messages had been repeatedly listened to
between 2003 and 2006, has now accepted $208,000 (£130,000) in damages, and his
ex-wife Sadie Frost receives $80,000 (£50,000), London's High Court heard on
Thursday (19Jan12).
In a
statement, Law says, "Over a number of years, the News of the World
conducted an illegal campaign of hacking and surveillance against me. In 2011,
I decided to bring legal proceedings against them to try to find out the truth.
"Today,
in court, it has been announced that those proceedings have been completely
successful... For me this case was never about money. It was about standing up
for myself and finding out what had happened."
British singer Cheryl Cole's
former husband, soccer star Ashley Cole, Noel Gallagher's ex-wife Meg Matthews,
and Australian pop star Dannii Minogue have all also reached a settlement with
the paper's publisher News International.