Beginning in the 1990s, and going as far as its shutdown in 2011, employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence i
News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch in 2007
It was reported that the News of the World may have hacked the phones of relatives of 7/7 attack victims (survivors pictured aboard one of the bombed Underground trains).
The Guardian newspaper was at the forefront of reporting on the phone hacking scandal.
The final edition of News of the World, published on 10 July 2011
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Wendi Deng Murdoch is a Chinese-born American entrepreneur and socialite. She was the third wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch from 1999 until 2013.
News International phone hacking scandal
…sitting in the public gallery, identified as comedian Jonnie Marbles, threw a shaving-foam pie at Rupert Murdoch. The incident propelled Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, into the media spotlight for her athletic response in defence of her husband. Marbles later said that he had "much respect" for Deng for fighting back…
Wendi Deng in 2024
Rupert and Deng in 2011