THE LEVESON INQUIRY WITNESS STATEMENT OF SIENNA MILLER I, SIENNA M ILLER ~ ILL SAY as foltows: I am an actress. I have also been the subject of a lot of unwanted media attention over the years by the tabloid press. This started in around September 2003, when I first came to the public’s attention, and has carried on until recently when, having taken legal action on a number of occasions, the intrusive coverage has at last, more or less, stopped. I make this statement in connection with my role as a Core Participant in the Leveson Inquiry. Save where the contrary appears, I make this witness statement from facts within my own knowledge and belief and which I believe to be true. My home address ha s been sent to the Inquiry. For obvious reasons, I have put this care of my lawyers, Atkins Thomson. 2005-2006 3 . During 2005 and 2006, I was subject to constant and intrusive speculation in the media about my private life. What was particularly stressful was the constant publication of private information by the newspapers. I could not, at that time, understand how journalists had acquired this information. Throughout this period, it seemed that almost every week, extremely personal matters were published. These included parts of private conversations that I had with close friends and family. I was torn between feeling completely paranoid that either som eone close to me (a trusted family member or friend) was selling this information to the media or that someone was somehow hacking my telephone. MOD100033222
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Both of these possibilities seemed fantastical but 1 became convinced that
someth ing was happening.
o In relat ion to my telephon e, throughout this period, I experienced unu sua l phone
activity, including hang up. cal ls and cl icking on the l ine. I was so co ncerned that I
changed my mobi le number three t imes in three months. I a lso had my phone put
in my publ icist ’s nam e, Publ ic E ye, rather than my o w n. Despite this, journal ists
and pho tographers w ould of ten turn up in meeting p laces that I had arranged on
the phone and that no one else knew a bout. I a lso had m en in cars s i t ting outs ide
my house a nd I was co nvinced that they could someho w l isten to my co nversations.
M y paranoia a nd suspicion natural ly spread to those a round me. M y publicist, Ciara
Parkes, became so convinced that our phones were being tapped that she
organised to have a phone just to speak to me o n. As I have s ince found out , Gtenn
M ulcaire obtained this numb er and her direct dial number as w ell .
o As I d id no t have any proo f a t the t ime tha t my phone wa s be ing hacked in to , I
becam e deeply suspicious that people close to me w ere leaking informa tion to the
press. I am lucky enough to ha ve an extreme ly t ight.knit group of fr iends and a
close family (which means that no on e has ever sold a story on m e}. H ow ever, this
only ma de these feel ings of susp icion far mo re uncomfo rtable. I t made me think
things which in hindsight seem abs urd but at the t ime I C ould not understand w hat
other explanation there might be.
I remember one occa sion where I sat my fam ily and fr iends dow n in a room , and Iaccused them of leaking stories to the press as a story had com e out that only they
had know n abo ut. Looking back, it makes m e extremely angry that I was forced into
being so susp icious o f people that I love and care for, and that I had to suffer such
feel ings of betraya l, espe cia l ly by those w hoha d done no thing wrong. I t is now
clear that the who le t ime the N ews of the W orld’s journal is ts w ere l is tening to m y
messages and those I left for people close to me. T his makes me very angry.
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number at one stage. W e have verif ied this from my V odafone a ccount notes at
that t ime.
1 2. The disclosure a lso show ed that Mr M ulcaire had c~eated a "proJect" under my
name and had computerised my confidential telephone details. I have also
discovered that lots of people close to me were also under surveillance.
My c la im aga ins t NGN L imi ted and G lenn M ulca ire
13. H aving seen the pol ice disclosure, I brought an a ct ion aga inst NG N L imited and
Glenn Mulcaire for misuse of private information, breach of confidence and
harassment, both for unlawfully intercepting my voicemail messages and for
publ ishing pr ivate informat ion in the N ews of the W orld. I com plained abo ut a tota l
of eleven art ic les, al l of w hich contained the pr ivate information that ha d upset m e
so m uch in 2005 and 20 06, and w hich in hindsight wa s clearly the result of hacking.
into m y mobi le phone and those of people close to me.
14. At first, both Defendants said they intend to defend the entire claim and in
February 201 1, they served Defences. Ho wever , on 1 2 Ma y 2011 , NG N L imited
adm itted l iabi li ty in C ourt for a l l o f my c la im s. As I understand i t , th is m eant that
they accepted that they had obtained confidential and private information from me
th rough hack ing in to m y vo icema i l message s, tha t they had publ ished a r t ic les
containing private information which they had obtained from this unlawful activity,and that they had invaded m y pr ivacy, breached my conf idence and harassed m e
through cons tant surveil lance a nd targeting.
15. Since the newspaper group’s uncondit ional admission of l iabi l i ty meant that there
we re no longer any issues betw een us, I therefore agreed to enter judgment o n
their adm issions, but only on the b asis that they provided m e w ith ful l disclosure.
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