Latest: Prince Harry Settles Case Against UK Tabloid Publisher That Hacked His Phone
LONDON (AP) — A British newspaper publisher has agreed to pay Prince Harry a “substantial” sum in costs and damages for invading his privacy with phone hacking and other illegal snooping, Harry’s lawyer said Friday.Attorney David Sherborne said Mirror Group Newspapers had agreed to pay Harry legal costs and damages and would make an interim payment of 400,000 pounds ($505,000).Harry was awarded 140,000 pounds ($177,000) in damages in December after a judge found that phone hacking was “widespread and habitual” at Mirror Group Newspapers in the 1990s, and that executives at the papers covered it up. Judge Timothy Fancourt found that Harry’s phone was hacked “to a modest extent.”Mirror Group said in a statement that it was “pleased to have reached this agreement, which gives our business ...