A year after her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle is being sued for defamation by her half-sister.
Samantha Markle, 57, claims the Duchess of Sussex launched a “pre-meditated campaign to destroy” her reputation.
A defamation case has now been launched against her younger half-sister, suing her for $75,000 (£57,000) and demanding that Meghan pay her legal fees.
In court documents, she cites the Duchess’ controversial US TV appearances on Oprah and Ellen as occasions where she “falsely claimed… she essentially raised herself from virtual poverty.”
Samantha also referenced the authors of Finding Freedom, a best-selling biography about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, claiming the book caused “damage” to her reputation.
The lawsuit has now been addressed by Loose Women panelist and columnist Jane Moore who claimed “there’s just one winner”
Writing in her latest column for The Sun, Jane said: “The Duchess of Sussex is being sued by half-sister Samantha Markle over claims she made about their relationship to Oprah Winfrey.
“And therein lies the problem with giving interviews on the world stage.”
She added: “You can give ‘my truth’ to the masses and they can’t really contest it unless it’s provably false.”
The Loose Women host claimed it is hard to tell your truth when siblings have different recollections.
“But when it comes to families who have known you since birth, they have ‘their truth’ and if it doesn’t concur with ‘your truth’ then it can end up in an expensive court case to thrash out what’s ‘the truth.'”
Jane astutely concluded: “As ever, there’s just one winner: Lawyers.”
In response to Samantha’s lawsuit, Meghan’s attorney Michael Kump said: “This baseless and absurd lawsuit is just a continuation of a pattern of disturbing behaviour.
“We will give it the minimum attention necessary, which is all it deserves.
“Meghan’s estrangement from her half-sister has been long documented and she told Oprah that she had not seen Samantha in “at least 18, 19 years”.
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