Meghan Markle wins bid to throw out half-sister Samantha’s defamation case – National | 24CA News
Meghan Markle has gained her bid to have a defamation case introduced by her half-sister thrown out.
A Florida choose dismissed the lawsuit Friday, by which Samantha Markle tried to sue The Duchess of Sussex for alleged defamation and “injurious falsehood.”
It was dominated by U.S. district choose Charlene Edwards Honeywell that Meghan’s remarks had been opinions and “not capable of being proven false.”
“As a reasonable listener would understand it, Defendant merely expresses an opinion about her childhood and her relationship with her half-siblings,” Honeywell wrote in her order, as reported by the BBC.
“Thus, the Court finds that Defendant’s statement is not objectively verifiable or subject to empirical proof. Plaintiff cannot plausibly disprove Defendant’s opinion of her own childhood.”
Samantha introduced the civil case ahead in March 2022, alleging that Meghan had uncovered her to “humiliation, shame and hatred on a worldwide scale” and misrepresented their relationship.
She was looking for damages of US$75,000 over what she claimed had been “malicious lies” informed about her throughout Harry and Meghan’s 2020 televised Oprah Winfrey interview and the 2020 biography Finding Freedom.
FILE – Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle’s half-sister, is interviewed on U.Okay. present ‘The Wright Stuff.’.
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In the interview, Meghan informed Winfrey that she grew up as “an only child.” Samantha accused Meghan of giving the impression that they had been “virtual strangers” rising up and that Samantha had “no relationship whatsoever with her sister Meghan.”
The lawsuit claimed that Meghan constructed a “false rags to royalty narrative” that was damaging to each Samantha and their shared father, Thomas Markle.
Last month, Honeywell ordered that each Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry, must give testimony beneath oath as a part of the case after the couple filed a movement to dam their depositions.
The case was a part of a long-standing drama between the half-siblings, fanned by the Sussexes’ Netflix sequence, Harry & Meghan, and the publication of Harry’s revealing memoir Spare earlier this 12 months.
In the documentary sequence, the previous Suits actor claimed she hadn’t seen Samantha “for over a decade” and had little to no relationship along with her.
“I don’t know your middle name. I don’t know your birthday,” Meghan informed the cameras. “You’re telling these people you raised me, and you coined me ‘Princess Pushy?’ I hadn’t had a fallout with her. We didn’t have a closeness to be able to have that. And I wanted a sister!”
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