your name is not jeffrey grant. >> i never told you my name is jeffrey grant?ou all day. >> in fact that's the name he's been responding to for weeks. there were phone calls to set up the meeting. >> mr. grant sglrks how are you? >> the phone call this morning telling him we just arrived. >> hi mr. grant. >> how are you? >> and the first time he walked in to the hotel room. mr. grant, this is shireen. >> how are you? >> even though we have it on tape he is trying to pretend it never happened. how do you expect to pull this off? it is a scam, it's a con and we have seen it before and you are smack dab in the middle of it. his world now seems topsy-turvy, he's not mr. grant, he's not involved in a scam and now he's even denying he knows the person who set up the meeting many barrister davis. >> how do you know him. >> i don't know him. >> how can you tell me that you don't know barrister davis. he said you were the guy that says to come and set up this deal. >> and you have been talking to him on the phone. >> it is a remarkable lapse in memory. he obviously does

jeffrey kofman. >> reporter: it has been the bane of british sportsmen, celebrities, even the royals. all of them had their deepest secrets revealed by "the news of the e world." just ask hugh grant on bbc. >> you guys have no morals at all. you didn't care who got hurt, as long as you were able to sell your newspaper. >> reporter: say the word tabloid here in britain, and people think of "the news of the world." nothing would stop it in pursuit of a sensational headline. not human decency, not even breaking the law. >> we've always had in britain a vivid tabloid irreverent. but in the last two to three decades, that has descended beyond the gutter into the s sewer. and that happened at the same time as mr. rupert murdoch entered the market. mr. murdoch, in myy view, has debotched british public life. >> forgive the individual by all means. but you can't forget. >> reporter: that is media tycoon rupert murdoch. he bought the legendary london tabloid 42 years ago, and with it staggering profits, built a global media empire. in the u.s., murdoch owns fox news, "the wall street journal," "the new york post" and a lot more. he is even bigger here in britain, where he owns a major tv