{"id":379824,"date":"2011-04-13T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T19:15:11","slug":"rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"RUPERT MURDOCH &#8211; HUGH GRANT LEARNS ABOUT MURDOCH&#8217;S REACTION TO HIS ARREST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"23\"><!--INFOLINKS_ON--><\/p>\n<p>News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch was furious when his London tabloids published a story on their front pages in 1995 about Hugh Grant&#8217;s arrest for lewd conduct in a public place with prostitute Divine Brown, according to Paul McMullan, a former reporter for Murdoch&#8217;s News of the World . Wearing a hidden microphone, Grant interviewed McMullan for Britain&#8217;s New Statesman magazine about allegations of telephone hacking at the Sunday tabloid when he worked there. (McMullan had previously disclosed that telephone hacking was a common practice at News of the World and that higher-ups knew about it.] When Grant asked him whether he believes Murdoch was aware of the hacking, he replied, &#8220;Errr, possibly not. He&#8217;s a funny bloke &#8230; quite puritanical. Sorry to talk about Divine Brown, but when that came out &#8230; Murdoch was furious &#8220;What are you putting that on our front page for? You&#8217;re bringing down the tone of our papers.&#8221; But Grant suggested that there might have been a different reason for Murdoch&#8217;s anger. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s also because it was his film I was about to come out in,&#8221; Grant remarked, referring to Nine Months , which was due to be distributed by 20th Century Fox, a subsidiary of Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp, two weeks after Grant&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>13\/04\/2011<\/p>\n<p><!--INFOLINKS_OFF--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news.nsf\/story\/hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest_1212423\" title=\"RUPERT MURDOCH - HUGH GRANT LEARNS ABOUT MURDOCH'S REACTION TO HIS ARREST\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RUPERT MURDOCH &#8211; HUGH GRANT LEARNS ABOUT MURDOCH&#8217;S REACTION TO HIS ARREST<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch was furious when his London tabloids published a story on their front pages in 1995 about Hugh Grant&#8217;s arrest for lewd conduct in a public place with prostitute Divine Brown, according to Paul McMullan, a former reporter for Murdoch&#8217;s News of the World . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RUPERT MURDOCH - HUGH GRANT LEARNS ABOUT MURDOCH&#039;S REACTION TO HIS ARREST - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"RUPERT MURDOCH - HUGH GRANT LEARNS ABOUT MURDOCH&#039;S REACTION TO HIS ARREST - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch was furious when his London tabloids published a story on their front pages in 1995 about Hugh Grant&#039;s arrest for lewd conduct in a public place with prostitute Divine Brown, according to Paul McMullan, a former reporter for Murdoch&#039;s News of the World .\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/rupert-murdoch-hugh-grant-learns-about-murdochs-reaction-to-his-arrest\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"RUPERT MURDOCH &#8211; 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