{"id":3728,"date":"2011-07-21T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T09:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:08:03","slug":"grant-wins-ruling-in-old-cell-phone-hacking-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/grant-wins-ruling-in-old-cell-phone-hacking-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Wins Ruling in Old Cell Phone Hacking Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/phone-hack1.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1509\" title=\"phone hack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/phone-hack1.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1509 lazyload\" title=\"phone hack\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/phone-hack1.gif\"><\/a>Actor Hugh Grant has won a court ruling in the United Kingdom as the used cell phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch\u2019s media empire refuses to go away.&nbsp; A High Court Judge yesterday ordered police to hand over materials to Hugh Grant and his former girlfriend Jemima Khan that could prove that their old cell phone conversations were hacked into by a private investigator who was working for one of Murdoch\u2019s newspapers in the United Kingdom.<br>\nGrant has emerged as one of the leading celebrity voices against Murdoch\u2019s News Corp empire since the scandal that is engulfing the corporation first broke three weeks away.&nbsp; Many other celebrities have been targeted for cell phone hacking in 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