Key dates in Britain's phone-hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who owned the papers, treated year-old Brooks as a daughter and she was close friends with Prime Minister David Cameron, who went to school with her racehorse trainer husband Charlie. Now she faces having to rebuild her career after a high-profile trial in which her methods and reputation faced intense scrutiny. A former secretary, Brooks was famous in Britain's traditionally male-dominated tabloid world as a woman who would stop at almost nothing to get a story.
She once disguised herself as a cleaner and hid in the bathroom of a rival paper for two hours before stealing an early edition so the News of the World could lift its scoop on Prince Charles, according to her former editor Piers Morgan. Such determination helped her to rise to become editor of the News of the World between and The Sun between and On her first day editing The Sun, she kept the tabloid's semi-naked page three pin-up but the model's name was given as "Rebekah from Wapping" - the area of east London where the paper was produced.
After Murdoch announced the closure of the News of the World in , he was asked by journalists what his first priority was. Gesturing at Brooks, by then chief executive of his British newspaper group News International, he said: "This one. Former Editor of the now-defunct tabloid News of the World, Rebekah Brooks is all set to make a comeback to her alma mater News Corp, to run its social media news agency Storyful, the Financial Times reported.
Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News Corp. Just weeks before her trial on phone-hacking charges was due to start, Rebekah Brooks got some crushing news: the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm learnt that her main defence lawyer could no longer represent her.
Scotland Yard detectives have told media mogul Rupert Murdoch that he will be interviewed as a suspect over crimes, including phone-hacking by journalists, at his British newspapers, a media report said today. British Prime Minister David Cameron was braced on Wednesday for difficult questions over his decision to hire Andy Coulson as his media chief, as the former News of the World editor convicted of phone hacking awaited a verdict on other charges.
Here are key developments in the phone hacking scandal involving segments of Britain's tabloid press. Phone hacking: CPS may bring corporate charges against Murdoch publisher. Read more. Reuse this content. And this started years before the phone-hacking scandal engulfed her in July She is brilliant with men, charming, tactile, very nearly seductive.
She is also brilliant with women — intimate, comic, always an ally, complimenting them on their clothes, researching their families so that she can ask just the right question. A made-to-measure suit of armour for her then partner, Ross Kemp, permanently displayed near the front door of the home they shared in south London.
A hamper full of organic food for a rival editor who was in hospital. Some of those closest to her suggest all this is artificial, the work of a great manipulator. She has transactions. She always has an agenda. Friends say she would blow up in a storm of fury at those who crossed her, firing off aggressive emails, threatening to sack all of them if they failed her again. Many of those who have dealt with her speak of the sense of threat behind her smile.
Politicians, in particular, were anxiously aware of colleagues who had been destroyed when her reporters ripped open their sex lives. It was this potent mixture of charm and aggression that fuelled her brilliant career, rising from an inauspicious beginning in a semi-detached cottage in the charming village of Hatton, near Warrington in Cheshire. Just 20 years later, aged only 41 she was the chief executive of his UK company, running all four of his UK titles.
Perhaps the two sides of her character were always there in her parents: her mother, Deborah, a secretary during her childhood and with whom evidently she has a particularly close and loving relationship and who came to the Old Bailey as a witness in her defence , and her father, John, known as Bob, a gardener and tree surgeon, who appears to have been less reliable.
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