Might 19 2023, Revealed 3:30 p.m. ET
Meghan Markle’s half-sister Samantha says the Duchess of Sussex portrayed her as a racist in her Netflix documentary and now she desires damages, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork obtained by RadarOnline.com, Samantha Markle is combating Meghan’s plea to dismiss the newest amended lawsuit.
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As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, final yr, Samantha sued Meghan for defamation. She accused the Duchess of Sussex of spreading lies about her childhood and their father Thomas Markle.
Samantha mentioned Meghan had pushed a “rags to royal” narrative regardless of being raised within the center class and having attended personal faculties.
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Within the go well with, Samantha mentioned Meghan lied when she instructed Oprah she wasn’t shut together with her half-sister. Prince Harry’s spouse instructed Oprah she had seen her half-sister, “18, 19 years in the past and earlier than that, 10 years earlier than that.”
Throughout the identical interview, Samantha mentioned she was accused of adjusting her final title to Markle after Meghan turned engaged to Harry.
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Meghan denied all allegations of wrongdoing and demanded the lawsuit be thrown out. She mentioned all her statements have been opinions and her half-sister was not harmed.
In February, a choose sided with Meghan and dismissed all claims. Nonetheless, a few weeks later, Samantha filed an amended lawsuit now taking problem with statements Meghan made on her Netflix documentary.
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In newly filed courtroom paperwork, she mentioned in Meghan’s documentary made it seem she made claims that she raised Meghan. Samantha mentioned she by no means made such feedback.
Additional, she mentioned Meghan claimed their father lived alone when he didn’t. As well as, she mentioned Meghan was not being sincere when she mentioned she didn’t keep in mind seeing Samantha a lot at Thomas’s residence.
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Samantha mentioned one other problem with the documentary was it made her seem like a racist.
The go well with learn, “The implication of the statements mentioned within the Collection produced and edited by MEGHAN by means of her personal phrases and hand-picked interviewees have been extremely damaging and harmful. On this regard, the Collection falsely accused SAMANTHA to be a member of a hate group that was about “race,” and even used the “N-Phrase.”
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“The unique remarks on Oprah could seem to pale compared to the assassination of Samantha’s status within the Netflix collection, however even these false statements have been calculated to hurt Samantha’s status, and to solid her to be an unconscionable opportunist,” Samantha mentioned.
In her submitting, Samantha claimed the statements have led to her dropping work and brought about her to turn into to object of hate “leading to strangers stalking her and threatening her, even rising to her receiving loss of life threats.”
The choose has but to rule.