Rupert Murdoch 'truly the most evil character on the planet,' says George Michael
Source: Los Angeles Times
George Michael is delighted to be alive, but when he came back to life out of a coma last December, he spent a couple of days speaking in an accent that wasn't his own.
... With his accent firmly back to normal, Michael was talking about celebrating his second shot at life with new music and also taking a few shots at Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. head honcho who's seen his News of the World tabloid shuttered in recent months in the course of a phone-hacking scandal.
"I'm delighted that the man has lived long enough to see what's happened," the onetime Wham! singer said, "because I've actually been on Murdoch Watch since I was about 19, honestly, watching this man, believing he was truly the most evil character on the planet, and that he had worked his way through the media to become the most powerful yet unelected man in the world."
According to the singer, the staff at Murdoch's Sun newspaper "shut down the office for the afternoon and had a party" the day in 1998 when he was arrested in L.A. for lewd conduct and consequently outed as gay.
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