Profile: Rebekah Brooks - Telegraph Scrutiny of the company had increased after claims emerged that the News of the World had paid a private investigator to intercept voicemail messages left on the mobile phone of Milly Dowler, who went missing in 2002 and was murdered. Mrs Brooks said at the time she was "appalled and shocked" that the schoolgirl's phone was hacked. She was also under the spotlight for her links with politicians including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and was seen to be well-connected to those in power. Mrs Brooks told the Leveson inquiry into press ethics and standards that she would receive text messages from David Cameron. She told the inquiry the Prime Minister would sometimes end messages with the acronym "LOL," understanding it to mean "lots of love." It is also commonly used to mean "laugh out loud." Mrs Brooks, 43, began working for News International when she joined the News of the World as a secretary in 1989, working her way up through its Sunday magazine. In 2000, she was appointed editor at the age of just 32, becoming the youngest editor of a national newspaper in the UK at the time. During her time at the newspaper, she campaigned to expose alleged paedophiles and supported Sarah's Law to allow the public access to the Sex Offenders Register following the murder of Sarah Payne by paedophile Roy Whiting. Just three years later and months before her appearance at the House of Commons' Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, she took over as editor of the Sun. It was at this hearing it emerged the News of the World had made payments to police officers in the past. Mrs Brooks, a trustee of ForceSelect foundation, which supports military charities, launched The Sun Military Awards during her tenure. The annual ceremony, known as the Millies, was aimed at recognising the work of the Armed Forces. In 2009, she became the CEO of News International and married Charlie Brooks, a horse trainer. She had previously been married to former Eastenders actor Ross Kemp. Mr and Mrs Brooks, who were introduced by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson at a party, were at the centre of the Chipping Norton set - a group of high-powered figures in the media, politics and entertainment. It was a clique that came under the spotlight when it emerged that Mrs Brooks had been lent a former Metropolitan Police horse, which the Prime Minister, David Cameron, had ridden. The revelations became known as "horsegate" among political journalists, who saw the episode as exposing the close relationship between some of the most influential people in the UK. In 2009, the magazine Tatler featured a profile of Mr and Mrs Brooks that started: "When Charlie Brooks wakes up in the mornings at his barn in Oxfordshire, he likes nothing better than to fly to Venice from Oxford airport with his soon-to-be-wife Rebekah Wade, the dazzling redhead editor of The Sun, for lunch at Harry's Bar. Mrs Brooks resigned her position at News International in July in the wake of allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World. Rebekah Brooks and her daughter Scarlett