Samantha Markle‘s authorized battle towards Meghan Markle is over for good!
On Tuesday, Florida District Court Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell dismissed Samantha’s defamation lawsuit towards the Suits alum “with prejudice” — which means she can’t sue for a similar claims once more! Wow!
According to court docket docs obtained by Page Six, the half-sister “failed to identify any statements that could support a claim for defamation or defamation-by-implication by this point, her third try at amending her complaint.” Samantha had been arguing that feedback made by her sister in her Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, in Oprah Winfrey‘s interview, and Omid Scobie‘s book Finding Freedom had been defamatory. This included the Archetypes host’s claims she was “an only child” and that she wasn’t near her estranged half-sister. Samantha additionally took difficulty with Meghan accusing her of fixing her surname to draft off her fame (she had been Samantha Grant earlier than Meghan gained worldwide fame).
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In 2022 and 2023, the case was tossed out when the choose dominated that Meghan’s feedback had been opinions and “not capable of being proven false.” That stated, Honeywell gave Samantha the prospect to amend her criticism — however in spite of everything this time and a number of other makes an attempt, she couldn’t produce the required proof!
While dismissing and shutting the case completely, the choose dominated there have been no examples of defamation in any of the aforementioned tasks. Instead, the official discovered the 59-12 months-outdated daughter of Thomas Markle equipped “mischaracterizations of the [CBS interview] transcript” and decided the couple’s statements about Samantha and their father had been “quintessential examples of opinion that cannot be verified and therefore cannot serve as the basis of a defamation action.”
Samantha had been requesting $75,000 in damages and for the price of court docket and lawyer’s charges. No phrase but if she’ll file an enchantment or lastly quit this battle. We guess Meg’s throwing a victory celebration, although! It’s an enormous win!
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