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Prince Harry & Others Ordered To Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million
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Key Points:
- Prince Harry, Elton John, Liz Hurley, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, and others lost a privacy lawsuit against the Daily Mail publisher and have been ordered to pay $13 million (£9.5 million) towards the publisher's legal costs by August 28.
- The $13 million payment is an initial sum, with the total legal costs for Associated Newspapers Limited estimated to exceed $46 million (£34 million).
- The claimants accused the Daily Mail publisher of unlawful information gathering, including criminal activity and privacy breaches, but all claims were dismissed by High Court Judge Nicklin due to insufficient proof.
- The lawsuit alleged illegal actions such as phone tapping, paying corrupt police officials for information, and impersonation to obtain medical records, which Associated Newspapers denied as baseless attempts to link them to historical phone hacking scandals.
- Prince Harry criticized the court ruling as a "whitewash," expressing his dissatisfaction with the judgment.
