Now a woman who stood in for Angelina Jolie in dangerous times (but not in scenes with Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith) says that her voice mails were allegedly hacked too.
Was her body double spied upon?
As The Wrap reports, these included the mere notion that Jolie would stop movies, as well as the even more controversial idea that she wanted to master off-road biking with Brad Pitt.
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The legal s claim that illegal activities were undertaken ... principally through the two newss, the Sun and the NeAngelina Jolies stunt double sues News Corp for alleged hackingws of the World.
Especially when our need for the minutest details of mous lives is completely insatiable.
Would anyone have thought of hacking into,Insurance News. say, George Clooneys aftershave supplier? How about Simon Cowells T-shirt manucturer?
Still, Huthart is not to be trifled with. She is a former winner of Gladiators, which would suggest she might be at least as fearsome an opponent as Wendi Deng.
Surely, surely someone might have considered listening to the voice mails of Vladimir Putins personal trainer, Kim Kardashians acting coach,Insurance knowledge. or Zach Galifianakis barber?
It is extremely difficult to imagine that these fine s -- only one of which is now defunct -- would stoop to such behavior.
There was even allegedly an occasion, says the Guardian, when Jolie had left a voice mail saying that she had checked into a hotel as Pocahontas. Huthart had no idea whom to ask for.
One common method for intercepting voice mails was simply to guess the passcode (some people simply left theirs with very standard combinations) and then change it for their own nerious benefit.
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There has long been a tendency for some media to publish all the news thats fit to be found out through any means possible.
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Eunice Huthart, Jolies body double in Tomb Raider 2, legal advice online claims that News Corp. hacked her phone and wrote stories based on information gleaned from her voice mails. This is the first U.S. claim in the hacking saga.
Those of an extremely twisted nature might wonder whether greater ingenuity might have been used to gain information to excite the British masses.
As Edward Snowden recently intimated, the possibilities are endless.
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Reuters reports that this is the first hacking action (and one imagines that Huthart can perform a very powerful hacking action) against News Corp. in the U.S.
Huthart says she discovered this all might have been because her passcode had mysteriously -- and allegedly -- changed.
Moreover, says the lawsuit: During one period when the plaintiff was in Los Angeles working on the film Mr & Mrs Smith, her daughter called several times to report that she was being bullied in school in Liverpool, England. Although plaintiffs daughter left messages asking her mother to call her back, plaintiff did not receive those messages and could not console her daughter.
Eunice Huthart, who performed as La Jolies body double in movies such as Tomb Raider 2 and Salt, is suing News Corp., as she believes that information from her voice mails was gleaned and polished into sensational news stories.
Huthart claims that her mily and friends began to frequently complain that their messages werent being returned.
One of those means is the hacking of voice mails. Indeed, News Corp. has settled hundreds of claims from mous people and those temporarily in the news for reasons that might be as sad as they might be trifling.
