Media | Rupert Murdoch News International Offers Dead Girl's Family $4.7M But the phone-hacking victims may want more By Neal Colgrass Posted Sep 19, 2011 2:49 PM CDT Copied Rupert Murdoch, center, attempts to speak to the media after he held a meeting with the parents and sister of murdered school girl Milly Dowler in London, Friday, July 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) The price for illegal phone hacking has just skyrocketed for Rupert Murdoch. Seeking to settle a high-profile hacking case against Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered in 2002, News International has offered her family roughly $4.7 million—a third of which would go to charity. But sources tell the Guardian that the family hasn't accepted yet and may want more. Other celebrity figures have taken far less for having their phones hacked: Sienna Miller approved a $155,000 settlement and a British sports-radio personality accepted roughly $30,000. But Dowler's story shocked Britain this summer, when a Guardian investigation revealed that The News of the World had hacked into her phone and deleted messages after her disappearance, giving her family the notion she was still alive. Murdoch later met with the Dowlers and told them he was "very, very sorry." Read These Next A new ransom demand arrives in the Nancy Guthrie case. What we know about former Prince Andrew's arrest. Blame game over massive sewage spill is heating up. Former Prince Andrew is arrested—on his birthday. Report an error