Meghan Markle awaits decision over defamation lawsuit as half-sister Samantha Markle is ‘optimistic’ over win

Meghan Markle should wait a number of extra weeks to seek out out if the defamation case being introduced towards her by half-sister Samantha Markle will go to trial. 

Samantha was in court docket in Tampa, Florida on Wednesday November 8 to listen to from Judge Charlene Honeywell, who heard arguments from the previous royal’s attorneys about why the case ought to be dismissed.

The ruling, which HELLO! has seen, revealed {that a} written order, marking Judge Honeywell’s ultimate decision, will likely be issued sooner or later within the coming days or even weeks; within the Florida justice system there is no deadline for deciding a movement. 

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Samantha informed The Sun newspaper after the listening to that she was “optimistic’ the ruling would go in her favor. 

“I feel the reality stands by itself so I’m optimistic and grateful that we’ve got a justice system that offers us the possibility to current the info,” she stated. 

“Hopefully sometime she will embrace the reality and a greater a part of herself,” Samantha added, sharing: “I might need that for her however till then I’ve to get again quite a lot of my life that was misplaced from quite a lot of harm over a number of years. All we will do is transfer ahead primarily based on reality and positivity.”

Samantha, the daughter of Meghan’s father Thomas Markle, has accused the Duchess of Sussex of spreading “demonstrably false and malicious lies” to a “worldwide viewers” during the royal couple’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 and also in the book Finding Freedom, a book that was reportedly unauthorized by Meghan or Prince Harry. 

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Judge Honeywell dismissed a part of the lawsuit in March 2023, writing in her ruling that Meghan had been expressing “an opinion about her childhood and her relationship with her half-sibling” and a press release of pure opinion was “not capable of being proved false”.

However, she gave Samantha 14 days to refile for an additional probability to show she had a case to take to trial, and the amended lawsuit centered particularly on the Oprah interview and the Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan. 

In court docket on Wednesday, Samantha’s lawyer Peter Ticktin alleged that the Netflix documentary sequence Harry & Meghan had wrongly implied that his consumer was amongst a hate group spreading coordinated “disinformation” towards Meghan. 

He additionally claimed that the accusations led to harassment of Samantha, and “it made her hated and made it so she can’t go out in public at times because of fear”.