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Murdoch v. Prince Harry: “They’re Going to Try to Destroy Him”

It’s been nearly 30 years since Rupert Murdoch’s News Group tabloid empire allegedly first hacked Prince Harry’s voicemail messages. But rather than settle, like Hugh Grant and Sienna Miller, the Duke of Sussex is putting The Murdoch Machine on trial. I spoke with a U.K. lawyer for a preview of the legal drama.

Prince Harry
Whatever you think of him, Prince Harry seems determined to see this through—and put on a show, even if, inevitably, he becomes the financial loser. Photo: Andy Stenning - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
December 26, 2024

Earlier this month, at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit, Prince Harry quite spectacularly teased his upcoming showdown with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers. In January, he’s set to begin trial over allegations that reporters at various tabloids paid private investigators to hack into voicemail messages between 1996 and 2011 in pursuit of salacious stories about celebrities. “The scale of the cover-up is so large that people need to see it for themselves,” the 40-year-old Duke of Sussex, now living in Montecito with his wife, Meghan Markle, told Andrew Ross Sorkin.