{"id":210803,"date":"2026-02-06T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/elton-john-testifies-in-court-about-abhorrent-uk-newspapers-invasion-of-his-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:05:12","slug":"elton-john-testifies-in-court-about-abhorrent-uk-newspapers-invasion-of-his-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/elton-john-testifies-in-court-about-abhorrent-uk-newspapers-invasion-of-his-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John testifies in court about \u2018abhorrent\u2019 UK newspaper\u2019s \u2018invasion\u2019 of his privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elton John testifies in court about \u2018abhorrent\u2019 UK newspaper\u2019s \u2018invasion\u2019 of his privacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-06 16:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sir Elton John departs the Royal Courts of Justice on March 27, 2023 in London, England after attending a hearing in a lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the \u2018Daily Mail.\u2019 (Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Elton John<\/strong> testified via video in a U.K. court on Friday about a British newspaper\u2019s \u201cabhorrent\u201d \u201cinvasion\u201d of his and his family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n

Elton and his husband,\u00a0David Furnish<\/strong>, are among several notable people, including Prince Harry<\/strong> and Elizabeth Hurley<\/strong>, who are suing The Daily Mail for writing articles about them based on \u201cunlawful information gathering.\u201d The newspaper\u2019s publisher has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Elton and David have identified 10 articles written about them between 2000 and 2015\u00a0that feature information they claim was obtained by tapping their phones, hiring private investigators and illegally obtaining medical records.<\/p>\n

Elton wrote in his witness statement, \u201cFrom a personal level, I have found The Mail\u2019s deliberate invasion into my medical health and medical details surrounding the birth of our son Zachary<\/strong> abhorrent and outside even the most basic standards of human decency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elton went on to write, \u201cDavid and I have now seen documents proving that The Mail were digging into me during times when I was in hospital and because I was in hospital.\u00a0We have also seen documents proving their intense digging into and around the birth of our first son Zachary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not believe there could be any legitimate ways that they discovered details about our egg donor, embryos and questions of paternity. Those were among the most confidential matters in our lives at the time,\u201d he added in the statement.<\/p>\n

Elton wrote, \u201cIt has been truly sickening for David and me to see the disclosure in our case, with\u00a0Zachary as a target when he was just born, with David and me as targets, with me as a target when I was sick and unwell.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the U.K. paper\u00a0The Independent, the trial is due to conclude…<\/p>\n

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