{"id":1271,"date":"2026-07-07T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:50:26","slug":"prince-harry-elton-john-lose-50-million-in-fees-after-daily-mail-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry, Elton John Lose $50 Million in Fees After Daily Mail Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Prince Harry&#8217;s Rep Reacts After Offer to Stay at Buckingham Palace Is \u201cWithdrawn at the Last Moment&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/elton_john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and more stars are dealing with the aftermath of a lost legal battle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">On July 7, British Justice <\/span><strong>Matthew Nicklin<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> ruled against a group of high profile figures\u2014that also included <\/span><strong>Elizabeth Hurley<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2014in a lawsuit accusing the Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Daily Mail, <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">of unlawful information gathering.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAssociated Newspapers welcomes today\u2019s judgement, which is an overwhelming victory for the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Daily Mail<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> and its journalists, and for a free press generally,\u201d a spokesperson for Associated Newspapers said in a July 7 statement to E! News. \u201cThis is a magnificent vindication of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Daily Mail<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u2019s journalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">In the lawsuit, filed in 2022, the plaintiffs accused the newspaper organization of mobile phone hacking, landline bugging and even home bugging in 97 separate allegations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Following the ruling, Associated Newspapers applauded Judge Nicklin for how his ruling \u201caccepted the honesty of our journalists\u2019 evidence on how they sourced their stories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The publisher went on to reiterate, as they did in response to the initial filing, that the since-dismissed allegations were \u201clurid\u201d and \u201cpreposterous,\u201d adding the claims \u201cwere a fishing expedition by the claimants and their legal teams in a politically motivated campaign to muzzle the free press.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry&#8217;s Rep Reacts After Offer to Stay at Buckingham Palace Is \u201cWithdrawn at the Last Moment&#8221; Prince Harry, Elton John and more stars are dealing with the aftermath of a lost legal battle.\u00a0 On July 7, British Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled against a group of high profile figures\u2014that also included Elizabeth Hurley\u2014in a lawsuit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260706\/ed1cb72b-08d4-45d8-9e77-7f609ccb9efa_1783344739.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}