Johnny Depp has hired a high-powered legal team to take aim at a U.K. tabloid, alleging that the newspaper hacked into his phone in order to reveal the private aspects of his life to the public without his consent or knowledge.
According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, Depp has filed suit against News Group Newspapers by issuing a letter of claim, accusing the company’s tabloids The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World of “multiple breaches” of his privacy and “misuse of private information, including the illegal interception of his voicemail messages and other unlawful data gathering.” The suit claims that the tabloids hacked into his phone and had access to his personal information from 1996 until 2010, claiming to have