Sir Elton John tells court ‘invasion’ into his family’s privacy was ‘abhorrent’
Sir Elton John tells court ‘invasion’ into his family’s privacy was ‘abhorrent’
Publish Date: 2026-02-06 07:38:00
Source Domain: www.independent.co.uk
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Sir Elton John has branded the alleged “invasion” of his and his son’s medical information by the Daily Mail as “abhorrent and outside even the most basic standards of human decency”.
Giving evidence at the High Court on Friday, the singer also described his claim against the newspaper’s publisher as containing “the most horrendous things in the world that you could ever suffer, from a privacy point of view” in an angry outburst.
Sir Elton and his husband David Furnish are part of a group of seven high-profile figures, including the Duke of Sussex, actress Elizabeth Hurley and campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence, bringing legal action against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).
The couple allege 10 articles about them between 2000 and 2015 were based on unlawful information gathering, including unlawfully obtained medical information and landline tapping.
ANL has strongly denied wrongdoing, with lawyers for the publisher previously telling the court that the claims made by Sir Elton and Furnish are “unsupported by any evidence…
