Actor Hugh Grant has reached an out-of-court agreement with News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of the Sun. Grant has withdrawn his lawsuit for the British media's alleged use of illicit methods to obtain information about him.

The agreement between the parties, the conditions of which have not been specified, was known this Wednesday, April 17 during a preliminary hearing at the High Court of London, scheduled to prepare the ongoing litigation against Rupert Murdoch's journalistic group by several plaintiffs, which also includes Prince Henry (London, 39 years old). NGN attorney Anthony Hudson mentioned that "there are currently 42 cases pending after the Grant lawsuit was recently settled." For his part, Grant's representative, David Sherborne, confirmed in turn that his client recently settled the lawsuit, which was to be examined in a trial in January 2025. Grant had already reached an agreement in 2012 with NGN for another lawsuit he filed for similar reasons against the now defunct Sunday newspaper News Of The World. The newspaper closed in the summer of 2011 after it was revealed that it used illegal wiretapping to obtain information from celebrities and ordinary people. Grant was allowed to pursue the case after proving that material proving the crimes came to light in recent years. In 2019, Prince Harry also decided to take legal action against the British media for allegedly accessing private telephone messages, as reported by Buckingham Palace at the time. In February 2024, the Daily Mail agreed to pay almost half a million euros to the Duke of Sussex. The Sun, for its part, has maintained at all times that it did not commit illegal activities. The Daily Mail has denied all allegations of illegal activities and said that it has always maintained that it is a 'fair and open' and 'fair' business. The Mail has also denied that The Sun has ever committed any illegal activities and has said that the allegations against it date back more than 30 years.