The FBI plans to contact the actor Jude Law following claims that his mobile phone was hacked during a visit to the US, officials have told the BBC.
It is alleged that a 2003 story by the News of the World newspaper was based on information from Law's voicemail.
If the accusation were true, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation could face charges in the US.
An article in the News of the World published on published on 7 September 2003 gave a detailed account of the actor's communications with his assistant.
Law's phone would have been using an American mobile network if used in the US, which could open the door to charges under US federal law, says the BBC's Steve Kingstone in New York.
Every time I see a story about the investigation moving to US soil it just makes me that much more convinced that the noose is tightening around the flabby neck of Fox News. And it never fails to put a HUGE smile on my face at the thought.
And by the way the irony that the most damaging evidence against News Corp might come from the British actors that they harassed the most, like Hugh Grant and Jude Law, is not lost on me either.
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