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Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday condemned the alleged hacking of a slain teenage girl’s cell phone by a British tabloid. Nearly all of Britain’s papers reported Tuesday — citing unnamed sources — that a private investigator hacked into the cellphone of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002 after she was reported missing. The investigator reportedly worked for News of the World, Britain’s biggest-selling Sunday tabloid.

Britain's News of The World tabloid has apologized for hacking into the phones of several public figures and offered to pay them compensation.

American Media Inc, publisher of the National Enquirer and Star supermarket tabloids, on Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Casey Johnson, the heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune who recently made tabloid headlines with a purported engagement to reality star Tila Tequila, has died at age 30.