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Duchess Meghan, Prince Harry: Legal dispute over interview statements
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In a court dispute with her half-sister Samantha Markle for defamation, Duchess Meghan and her husband Prince Harry can be questioned by the US judiciary.
A judge in Florida dismissed an objection by Meghan, 41, the British news agency PA reported on Wednesday, citing court documents.
According to the London newspaper “Times”, Samantha Markle, 58, is demanding 75,000 US dollars (the equivalent of almost 70,000 euros) in damages.
She claims Meghan made "provenly false and malicious" statements about her in her high-profile interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 before a global audience.
King Charles III's daughter-in-law.
had said in the conversation, among other things, that she hardly knew Samantha and claimed that her half-sister only changed her last name back to Markle after she found out that Meghan was in a relationship with Harry, 38.
The PA news agency quoted from Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell's decision: "Defendant Markle has failed to establish that unusual circumstances justify the stay requested or that prejudice or an undue burden will arise if the court does not issue a stay." real name Meghan Markle.
Her half-sister, who has multiple sclerosis and is in a wheelchair, accuses her of wrongly saying “in front of about 50 million people in 17 countries” that she was an only child.
With her "false and malicious lies" she damaged the plaintiff's reputation and humiliated her in front of the world, PA quoted from the lawsuit.
"Defendant orchestrated a campaign to disparage and destroy the reputation and credibility of her sister and father (Thomas Markle) in order to preserve and promote the false 'rags-to-riches' narrative."
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