David and Victoria Beckham (2005)
Celebrity couples deal with vicious rumors all the time — it's all a part of the game. Soccer superstar David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, were both targeted in 2005 when News of the World reported that Beckham was having an affair with his then-assistant, Rebecca Loos. The story went on to win "Scoop of the Year" at the British Press Awards, and led to the Beckhams' suspicions that their cellphone voicemail accounts had been compromised.
In 2011, Beckham and a slew of other celebrity phone-hacking victims sued the newspaper's parent company, and while Beckham never formally testified, the case resulted in a police investigation and the eventual shutdown of the News of the World.
How to Avoid: It's hard to do so when most voicemail accounts can be accessed with a four-digit PIN.
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