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    Heather Mills: I was told my phone was hacked

    LONDON (AP) — Model Heather Mills on Wednesday accused a senior journalist with Britain's Trinity Mirror group of newspapers of boasting that her phone messages had been intercepted.

    In an interview with the BBC's "Newsnight" program, the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney claimed that she was called several years ago by a senior editorial figure with the Mirror who quoted — word-for-word — the phone messages left by McCartney on her answering machine.

    Mills said that the journalist in 2001 told her: "Oh, I hear you've had a big argument with your boyfriend." Mills and McCartney got married only in 2002.

    "And I said: 'Why would you know this?' And he started quoted verbatim the messages from my machine," she said.

    Mills added that when she accused the journalist of hacking into her phone, he laughed and admitted that the conversations had indeed been lifted from her voice messages. When she threatened the journalist with legal action he promised not to write a story based on the intercepts, she said.

    Messages left for Mills on a number associated with her website were not immediately returned.

    Trinity Mirror PLC has consistently refused to answer questions about the past conduct of its journalists, saying only that its employees follow the law.

    The publisher — which puts out Britain's left-leaning Daily Mirror and its sister-paper, the Sunday Mirror — has come under increased scrutiny following revelations that the now-defunct News of the World tabloid of its rival News International eavesdropped on a host of prominent figures. Particular attention has been focused on the Daily Mirror's former editor, Piers Morgan, who has long maintained that phone hacking was widespread across the British newspaper industry and that he was well-aware of the practice.

    Morgan has denied that he himself hacked into phones or that he knowingly put out stories based on hacked conversations.

    Mills named the journalist in her interview, but the BBC bleeped out his name, citing legal reasons.

    The BBC did say, however, that the journalist was not Morgan.

     

    92 comments

    • Roger  •  9 mths ago
      Before or after she hacked Pauls bank account?
      • Dave 9 mths ago
        She should have had better security. Paul should have had a pre-nup . . . or even better . . . he shouldn't have been a dam fool.
      • R. Kotzen 9 mths ago
        Prosecute the robber.. not the bank..
    • Rain Edje  •  9 mths ago
      As much as she is disliked, lets not forget first Sir Paul married her and second he did it with out any binding property sharing agreements. He made his bed and she slept in it.
    • Denise  •  9 mths ago
      she is such a wannabe, any thing that she can attach herself to for the publicity. She is not a celeb. Many real celeb's phones where hacked, don't hear them talking to the media.
    • chris  •  9 mths ago
      Poor Heather just needs some attention.
      Guess Pauls earnings just aren't enough to satisfy.
    • DJH  •  9 mths ago
      Yeah, well, Paul was hacked that he married the golddigger.
    • SEANZ  •  9 mths ago
      It sounds like she's looking for another payday .She hacked Paul in the wallet. Someone's hacking her. What the hack
      • J Travolta 9 mths ago
        Don't forget, her leg got hacked off too!
    • Fansport77  •  9 mths ago
      IMO, she is a prostitute. A high-priced one. She was married for, what, four years, and scored over $100 mil? Nice work if you can get it.
    • Johnny  •  9 mths ago
      This sorry excuse imposer model is nothing more than a news seeking money grubber. I haven't heard of her since she fleeced McCartney. lol. She's just testing the waters to check out a potential lawsuir. Even if they printed her private intimate diary I wouldn't read it!
    • Pachacutec  •  9 mths ago
      I find this story amazing; who on earth would CARE about Heather Mills' phone calls? Lady, your 15 minutes were up a long time ago, please go away.
      • Old Broad 9 mths ago
        They cared because she was hooking up with McCartney at the time. Read the article.
    • Paige  •  9 mths ago
      she is always looking for a way to get her little unwanted time in the media.....let it go Heather
    • Abe  •  9 mths ago
      Nobody cares about her. Aren't her 15 minutes up yet?
    • Yomama Sofat  •  9 mths ago
      She must have ran out of McCatney money
    • Boston  •  9 mths ago
      She doesn't have a leg to stand on.
      • Bozz 9 mths ago
        HA! Good one!
      • Duane 9 mths ago
        Zingaaaa!
      • Mojac 9 mths ago
        Ouch! Well done.
    • JPT  •  9 mths ago
      I haven't even read the comments yet and Yahoo! has it looking like I rated some already.

      It's not how I would have rated them and I can't change it.

      Why Yahoo?
      • Old Broad 9 mths ago
        It's not a conspiracy JPT...no one is having any luck thumbing anything. Yahoo's website is a POS. Live with it. Don't get your knickers in a twist.
      • Fansport77 9 mths ago
        JPT...seems like someone may have 'hacked' your rating mechanism.
    • Peter  •  9 mths ago
      No, she is at it again! Once she was high end ordinairy call girl in London! A real gold digger!
    • weimarliberal  •  9 mths ago
      This will not deflect us from the Murdoch case
    • John  •  9 mths ago
      She is a loser, a user, and an abuser. I do not believer her, nor do I (or the rest of the sane
      world) care what she does ever. Right now, it is just therapeutic for me to diss someone
      who so richly deserves it.
    • bluepeahen  •  9 mths ago
      Heather who?
    • Hawaii Dude  •  9 mths ago
      heather is just a different kind of hooker, she deserves it.
    • Libs is Dumb  •  9 mths ago
      All she talks about is how she hoodwinked Sir Paul and where she is planning on lunching.
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