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Prince Harry Seeks £570,000 in Court Damages Due to Spotify Deal Loss
Prince Harry has been accused of being greedy and forced by Meghan Markle to request £570,000 in court damages to compensate for the lost Spotify deal.
If Prince Harry wins his phone hacking claim against MGM, he will have to thank a legal precedent set by an apprentice chimney sweep over 300 years ago.
The case against the newspaper publisher concluded on Friday after a seven-week trial, with Prince Harry asking the court to award him more than £440,000 in damages, potentially making it one of the largest phone hacking settlements ever.
The case revolves around 33 articles published between 1996 and 2009 that Prince Harry claims were obtained illegally through intercepting voicemails or other illegal activities.
The judge is expected to deliver his verdict in the autumn and may award additional aggravated damages if he finds in the Prince’s favor and determines that the articles caused significant distress.
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This trial has forced the world’s media to re-examine the excesses of British tabloid newspapers, as well as the roles of former Mirror editor Piers Morgan and a network of private investigators willing to do almost anything for an exclusive story.
Prince Harry became the first royal in 130 years to appear at a witness box when he gave evidence earlier this month.
He described how press intrusion destroyed his relationships and left him with bouts of depression and paranoia.
He came close to tears, emphasizing the hard evidence of being illegally targeted by Mirror journalists and expressing a sense of injustice if he were to lose the case.
The challenge for Prince Harry lies in the fact that, during two months of legal debate, no conclusive proof was presented that his mobile phone voicemails were intercepted by journalists working for the Mirror, Sunday Mirror, or People.
Invoices were produced showing that private investigators targeted the Prince, but the Mirror denies that this necessarily proves they were acting legally, except for one minor exception.
No journalists testified to hacking Prince Harry’s voicemails, and no call data from the Mirror to his mobile phone was found, despite being discovered in similar cases.
Furthermore, no one admitted to digging up illegal information on the Prince.
The main direct evidence suggesting illegal activity by the Mirror is that Prince Harry’s mobile number was found in the personal organizer of one journalist, along with call records to his friends and sets of invoices to private investigators for research on the Prince and his associates.
However, Prince Harry’s case largely relies on circumstantial evidence, such as the general culture at the Mirror’s newspaper and the existence of mysteriously attributed information and articles about him.
Both sides acknowledge that intrusive phone hacking of celebrities’ voicemails was widespread at the Mirror’s newspapers in the 2000s.
While it is undeniable that the Mirror published numerous articles about Prince Harry’s private life, which he found highly intrusive, proving that the Mirror’s stories about him came from legal sources is more challenging.
In other news, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have lost their £20 million Spotify deal, but they can still rely on their Netflix contract.
The royal couple reportedly remains associated with the streaming platform as long as they continue to produce relevant content.
In 2021, Harry and Markle signed an estimated £100 million contract with Netflix.
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