Meghan Markle Wins Sister Samantha’s Defamation Case

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Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle’s estranged half-sister, has lost her defamation lawsuit against the Duchess of Sussex.

According to court papers that E! got its hands on, on March 30, a Florida judge agreed to Meghan’s request to throw out the lawsuit’s claims without harm. News.

Samantha, who is 58 years old, said in her 2022 filing that the book Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie said some bad things about her. A chapter labeled “A Problem Like Samantha” appears in Meghan and Prince Harry’s unauthorized biography.

Samantha also claimed Kate of making more derogatory remarks about her in the couple’s 2021 CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey. In her lawsuit, she stated that Meghan, 41, informed her, “I grew up as an only child, which everyone who grew up around me knows, and I wished I had siblings.”

In her filing, Meghan’s sister Samantha said that the alleged “defamatory statements” caused her irreparable harm, injury, and damage to her reputation, as well as anxiety and mental distress. She also claimed to have gotten hate mail and been stalked by one of Meghan’s fans.

Samantha also claimed Kate of making more derogatory remarks about her in the couple’s 2021 CBS interview.

In his decision to throw out all of Samantha’s claims, the judge said, “Claims based on Finding Freedom will be dismissed with prejudice, as [she] cannot plausibly claim that Meghan published the book, and amending these claims would be pointless.”

In response to Meghan’s “only child” comments in the Oprah interview, the judge said, “A reasonable listener would think that [Meghan] is just giving her opinion about her childhood and her relationship with her half-siblings, so the Court finds that [her] statement is not objectively verifiable or subject to empirical proof.”

In his decision, the judge also said that the interview transcript didn’t have two other allegedly defamatory things that Samantha said Meghan said to Oprah. “She does more than paraphrase [Meghan’s] words—she substantively changes the meaning of what was said,” he said of the duchess’ sister.

The judge ruled that she could submit an amended complaint regarding claims connected to the Oprah interview.

Meanwhile, the judge ruled that Samantha could submit an amended complaint regarding claims connected to the Oprah interview within 14 days, which she intended to do.

“This upcoming amendment will address certain legal issues related to our defamation claims as they specifically relate to the Oprah interview on CBS,” her lawyer, Jamie A. Sasson, told E! In a statement released on March 31, News stated that they “look forward to presenting an even stronger argument for the defamation and losses our client has endured.”

Samantha’s claim follows years of public criticism of Meghan and Harry. This includes comparing Meghan to the Disney villain Cruella de Vil on Twitter just a few months after Harry and Meghan’s wedding in 2018, which Samantha was not invited to, and releasing a memoir in 2021 in which Meghan is called “Princess Pushy.”

SOURCE – (ENEWS)