News of the World

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 11:16am on Monday, December 28th, 2009

Naomi Campbell Drops News Of The World-Related Court Case, London's Evening Standard newspaper reported on December 21, 2009:

"Naomi Campbell is suffering “litigation exhaustion” and has pulled out of her latest court case, incurring an estimated £300,000 legal bill.

The 39-year-old model discontinued her case against Vanessa Frisbee, a former personal assistant, whom she had accused of breaching confidentiality by selling a story about her in 2000 to the News of the World for £25,000.

Master Bowles, a High Court official hearing her confidentiality case, said that while he could understand the model's “exhaustion with litigation” she must still pay 90 per cent of Miss Frisbee's legal costs.

Miss Campbell will also have to pay her own legal team, headed by Heather Rogers QC."

The full story:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23786892-naomi-campbells-pound-300000-legal-exhaustion.do

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 8:19pm on Friday, July 10th, 2009

Journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers used criminal methods to get stories, The Guardian newspaper reported on July 8, 2009:

"Rupert Murdoch's News Group News­papers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.

Today, the Guardian reveals details of the suppressed evidence, which may open the door to hundreds more legal actions by victims of News Group, the Murdoch company that publishes the News of the World and the Sun..."

The full story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:08pm on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Swimming superstar Michael Phelps’s many endorsements could soon go up in smoke. A photo of Phelps inhaling from a marijuana pipe was published in Britain’s News of the World on February 1, 2009, and the swimmer didn’t deny it. In a statement, Phelps said, “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.” This isn’t Phelps’ first time in the dog house. Shortly after the 2004 Olympics, he pleaded guilty to drunk driving.