by: Georg Szalai | Hollywood Reporter

LONDON - Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International, the U.K. newspaper unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., received a pay-off of more than £7 million ($11.2 million) following her resignation amid the phone hacking scandal last year, the Financial Times reported.

The departure package included cash and pension payments, an allowance for legal fees and the use of a chauffeur, the paper said, citing people with knowledge of the situation.