Bing's complaint rejected
2002-05-23 09:04
London - The UK's Press Complaints Commission has ruled the Daily Mirror did not breach the privacy of Liz Hurley's former lover Steve Bing, Ananova.com reports.
Last December, the paper printed his office phone number urging readers to call him "if you think he is a bigger cad than James Hewitt".
The PCC said the paper's article about the paternity battle between the pair was justified under the newspaper industry's Code of Conduct.
Bing "cruelly turned his back" on the 36-year-old British actress when she announced she was pregnant with his child, according to the Mirror's article on December 6, 2001, which supplied the main switchboard number of his Los Angeles film company.
Numerous crank and threatening phone calls were made as a result, according to Bing's solicitors, who complained to the PCC that the newspaper was encouraging its readers to invade his privacy.