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A London judge has ruled that Prince Harry will not be able to expand his privacy lawsuit against a British tabloid to include allegations against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan. After filing a lawsuit against U.K. tabloid The Sun's publisher News Group Newspapers, Prince Harry's lawyers were hoping to sue over claims that Murdoch and other top executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering.
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00:00A London judge has ruled that Prince Harry will not be able to expand his privacy lawsuit
00:04against a British tabloid to include allegations made against media mogul Rupert Murdoch
00:09and Pierce Morgan. After filing a lawsuit against UK tabloid The Sun's publisher
00:14News Group Newspapers, Prince Harry's lawyers were hoping to sue over claims that Murdoch
00:20and other top executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence
00:24of unlawful information gathering. The prince alleges that he was targeted by journalists
00:29and private investigators working for NGN. In March, he sought to amend his case to add new
00:34allegations, including that The Sun ordered private investigators to target his now-wife Megan in 2016.
00:41A London judge ruled that allegations that Murdoch turned a blind eye to wrongdoing
00:45added nothing meaningful to claims made against News Group Newspapers by the Duke.
00:49NGN has denied that any illegal activity took place at The Sun. Following the judge's ruling,
00:54a spokesperson for NGN said the court thoroughly vindicated their position.
00:59Harry, who's breaking royal tradition with his fight against the tabloids and is the first in
01:03the family to testify in open court in over a century, also has a pending case against British
01:08tabloid The Daily Mail. For more on this story, hit to THR.com. And for the latest entertainment
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