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Meghan Markle gained the defamation lawsuit her estranged sister Samantha Markle filed towards her in 2021. A Florida decide dominated in Meghan’s favor and threw out the case on Thursday, March 31. The Duchess of Sussex was accused of spreading malicious lies about Samantha in an unauthorized biography and through Meghan and Prince Harry’s bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview.
Meghan’s estranged half-sister from father Thomas Markle’s first marriage claimed Meghan defamed her within the 2020 ebook Discovering Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Trendy Royal Household, written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, by “contributing false info to the ebook by means of her agent and press secretary,” in accordance with court docket paperwork, per Insider.
Samantha additionally stated within the $75k lawsuit that Meghan lied about being an “solely youngster” in her interview with Oprah. Meghan had instructed Oprah on the time that she didn’t know Samantha, having solely met her a handful of instances. “I grew up as an solely youngster,” Meghan stated. “Which everybody who grew up round me is aware of. I needed I had siblings. I’d’ve liked to have had siblings.”
Samantha’s authorized rep, Jamie Sasson, broke down how the Oprah feedback have been allegedly defaming in an August 2022 interview. “When she went on Oprah and stated ‘I grew up as an solely youngster’ there’s just one means to have a look at that, that she was an solely youngster,” he instructed Newsweek. “Which then in consequence, made the final notion of the general public imagine that my consumer was a liar and was making up a narrative claiming that she was Meghan Markle’s sister when, certainly, she actually was and that is what this comes right down to.”
In a deferred judgement, Decide Charlene Edwards Honeywell granted Meghan her movement to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing Meghan was not chargeable for the contents of Discovering Freedom and that she gave her “opinion” in the course of the Oprah interview. “As an affordable listener would perceive it, defendant merely expresses an opinion about her childhood and her relationship together with her half-siblings,” the decide wrote, per BBC. “Thus, the court docket finds that defendant’s assertion is just not objectively verifiable or topic to empirical proof…. plaintiff can’t plausibly disprove defendant’s opinion of her personal childhood.”
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