Last Thursday, a judge dismissed Samantha Markle’s unhinged defamation case against her half-sister, the Duchess of Sussex. Samantha had spent a significant amount of time and money trying to convince people that Meghan “defamed” her when Meghan spoke about how she grew up as an only child and that she wasn’t particularly close to her half-siblings. Samantha is a con artist, an opportunist and I strongly suspect that this entire nuisance suit was being bankrolled entirely by people within the British media, or by one of the British tabloids. This goes alongside my longtime conspiracy theory that Piers Morgan was the one writing Thomas Markle’s scripts. The point, for Samantha, is not to win the case, but to make Meghan’s life a misery and to ensure “content” for the tabloids. Speaking of, Samantha is telling everyone that she plans to “refile” her lawsuit.
The Duchess of Sussex’s half-sister is planning to refile an “even stronger” defamation case against her sibling. Samantha Markle’s legal team has revealed it will focus on comments Meghan made during her and the Duke of Sussex’s 2021 television interview with Oprah Winfrey. The lawyers’ announcement comes after a Florida judge last week threw out part of the case related to the biography Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.
The sister claimed the Duchess spread “demonstrably false and malicious lies” to a “worldwide audience” in the book and her CBS television interview. The £60,000 ($75,000) lawsuit claimed Samantha was subjected to “humiliation and hatred” following her sister’s claims she felt she grew up as an only child.
Samantha Markle’s lawyers said it was “unfortunate” that the judge’s ruling was seen by many as the end of the legal action, known as “Markle vs Markle”. Instead, they said the judge had allowed the legal team 14 days to amend their complaint. Their statement adds: “This upcoming amendment will address certain legal issues that are related to our claims for defamation as it specifically relates to the Oprah interview on CBS.”
The statement, written by Samantha’s attorney Jamie Sasson, says that “we vehemently oppose the narrative” the media reported claiming the Duchess had won, adding how they “look forward to presenting an even stronger argument for the defamation and losses that our client has had to endure.”
The amended claims could also cite elements of the 2022 Netflix series which covered the Meghan and Prince Harry’s relationship, from early courtship to their decision to step back from the Royal Family and move to America.
I read part of the judge’s dismissal, and it’s absolutely clear that Meghan WON. The judge believes that Samantha’s lawsuit is dumb as hell and wrong on the law across the board. Again, the point is not for Samantha to win, her entire goal here is to be a fly in the ointment, to be the white trash relative on the sidelines, getting attention for selling out and lying about her half-sister. As for Samantha refiling with the stuff from the Netflix series… is she going to sue her own daughter Ashleigh too? The daughter she didn’t raise, the daughter who wants nothing to do with her?
NEW: Samantha Markle's attorney told me that his client plans to file an amended complaint in her defamation case against her half-sister Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. It will likely include claims made about Samantha in the Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan."
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/yhMhyM5Q6Q
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) March 31, 2023
Photos courtesy of WENN, Netflix.
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- Samantha Markle talks to the panel about paparazzi shots of her father and not being invited to the wedding of her sister Meghan and Prince Harry on ‘Loose Women’. Broadcast on ITV1 Featuring: Samantha Markle, Samantha Grant When: 14 May 2018 Credit: Supplied by WENN **WENN does not claim any ownership including but not limited to Copyright, License in attached material. Fees charged by WENN are for WENN’s services only, do not, nor are they intended to, convey to the user any ownership of Copyright, License in material. By publishing this material you expressly agree to indemnify, to hold WENN, its directors, shareholders, employees harmless from any loss, claims, damages, demands, expenses (including legal fees), any causes of action, allegation against WENN arising out of, connected in any way with publication of the material.**
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- Samantha Markle talks to the Piers and Susanna about paparazzi shots of her father and not being invited to the wedding of her sister Meghan and Prince Harry on ‘Good Morning Britain’. Broadcast on ITV1 Featuring: Samantha Markle, Samantha Grant When: 15 May 2018 Credit: Supplied by WENN **WENN does not claim any ownership including but not limited to Copyright, License in attached material. Fees charged by WENN are for WENN’s services only, do not, nor are they intended to, convey to the user any ownership of Copyright, License in material. By publishing this material you expressly agree to indemnify, to hold WENN, its directors, shareholders, employees harmless from any loss, claims, damages, demands, expenses (including legal fees), any causes of action, allegation against WENN arising out of, connected in any way with publication of the material.**
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- Meghan Markle’s step sister Samantha Markle & guests at The Ray Darcy Show, RTE, Dublin, Ireland – 13.10.18. Featuring: Samantha Markle Where: Dublin, Ireland When: 13 Oct 2018 Credit: WENN.com **Not available for publication in Ireland**
Samantha is a sick lady, within and without, and literally. She has a lot of medical bills to pay and instead of trying to connect and reach out to her own children, she uses her limited time on earth to trash her sister.
Obviously, she is being paid for all this because she does not have the money and it is ridiculous, butit egneretaes some ckicls around Britain for some reason…
This is what I was thinking, who is funding this? Lawsuits cost money and lots of it when you have good legal counsel. There is a money trail here, no way she has this type of money. I would request the money up front from her if I were them.
Her lawyers are from the same law firm that represents trump.
Yes, the real question is who are the people bankrolling this?
I believe it must have some connection to tabloid media and cheap talk shows. Whoever is behind it doesn’t care if Scammy wins or loses because they will still make money from the stories coming out of the stupid case.
Scammy is definitely unhinged and it must be eating her from the inside to know that Meghan is on good friendly terms with her estranged daughter.
@PrincessK, ITA. How is there not one brave, high-profile journalist in the UK investigating and bringing attention to issues like this? So unbelievably frustrating.
#Meghanhasnosiblings
Meghan does have siblings, and I doubt she wants any part of denying that as it’s clear she loves her niece. However, Meghan was raised as an only child just as my husband was raised as one of two despite there being 4 other much older half siblings who lived across the country. He knows and recognizes he has 4 other siblings aside from his sister, but he wasn’t raised with them just as Meghan wasn’t raised with this wannabe leach.
On another note, I can see a strong family resemblance between Meghan and Samantha, yet Meghan is incredibly stunning and Samantha is the Wish version. I know that is hateful to point out, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
That was exactly my thought. Someone is backing her by paying her legal fees…
Some “royal expert” or some wretched tabloid press corporation is pushing and funding this abuse of Meghan. Although I respect Meghan’s class and remarkable restraint, I think she should seriously consider counter-suing that crazy bitch. If some judge doesn’t step in and tell her to step back, that woman will devote the rest of her life to attacking Meghan in the courts. She is all hate. How do you get away with repeatedly suing someone who has … hurt your feelings?? There needs to be something done to expand the definition of abuse to encompass the use of nuisance or constant lawsuits to hurt people.
The judge’s dicta clearly states that Samantha has no case, but she’s free to amend a few parts if she wants to, which too will be dismissed. Like—the judge is telling you now you will lose, and yet you’re gonna go ahead and do it?! Way to piss off the judge and SUPER LOSE next time! He will grant Meghan attorneys’ fees and then some, if she asks. Meghan needs to ask for some additional money to hurt Sam in the wallet—to deter similar nuisance suits and get Sam to think thrice about coming for her again.
Meghan asking for more money will not make any difference because Scammy has people with deep pockets bankrolling this. All they want from it is to get the story in the news everywhere, an they have succeeded because here we are talking about it and giving it the oxygen of publicity.
Scammy will stop if Meghan sues her for harrassment. There is plebty of evidence of that. Meghan’s lawyers will then ask why Scammy is spending $100Ks to win $75K. That should make for interesting discovery.
Scammy will stop if the IRS does an audit on her. It really needs to be done if she is not reporting on any income she is receiving outside of her disability. Unless this attorney is pro bono, or one of those “We get paid when you get paid” lawyers, his payment money is coming from somewhere that could count as income. She is suing for only $75k and most likely wouldn’t get lawyers fees even if, in the highly unlikely chance, she did win. So that is hardly enough to even cover legal fees in such a high profile and long drawn out legal proceeding.
If Meghan were to sue Samantha for harassment, could she request a financial audit to find out who’s bankrolling Samantha’s harassment of her?
I believe Judge Holloway really telegraphed to Scammy and her attorneys that they had better be careful. When she allows the amendment she references Rule 11. That puts the attorneys on notice that she will be scrutinizing any additional pleadings for possible sanctionable activities. https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11
Honestly, though, the judge could’ve dismissed the case with prejudice and did not. Therefore, the judge is saying there’s a problem with the pleading, not the claim. It’s a dismissal without prejudice with leave to amend the pleadings.
Which is EXACTLY what Scammy’s backers want.
Given that whomever is backing Sam can’t put it into a legally binding agreement, I hope Scammy is ready for bankruptcy and financial ruin should she choose to re-file and invariably lose.
Maybe that is the headline the Fail (suspected backers) are going for i.e. ‘Will the Duchess stop at nothing in her pursuit for fame and future? – Meghan wins her defamation suit and financially ruins her estranged wheel chair bound disabled sister…”
^^ Insert picture of Sam sitting outside repo’d home looking broken and dishevelled.
This is harassment and Sam is probably being bankrolled by the media. What a bitter and vindictive and greedy person she is.
Don’t be surprised if KP also has a hand in this. They think they can break Meghan and drive her to self harm; Anything to get Harry back to stop the bleeding in the Firm.
I wish someone would put this deranged grifter on a raft and Let her float way out to sea. Never to be seen or heard from again.
I wonder if M and H ever argue who has the worst father and sibling?
They must be sorely tempted.
I have to admit I’m not certain which side is worse either. There are valid arguments for each. I would go no contact with the whole sorry lot of them.
@Gabby, I’m with you. They’re all so awful, I wouldn’t be able to pick the worst one because ALL of them are the absolute worst.
Given that it was based on easily provable inaccurate statements it would be hard to re-file a weaker case.
Interesting that the Torygraph is getting in on the DM’s stories. I wonder if they are sharing her legals costs between them?
Bad timing, Sam! All the lawyers who are stupid and shitty enough to risk disbarment for this sort of vexatious litigation have probably been scooped up by Trump already.
@Miranda, I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that there’s actually an attorney representing this freak. How desperate must one be, honestly
Such a sad and lonely life Scammy leads. No amount of tantrum throwing is going to fill the emptiness in her.
We have to wait for karma to do the job. We had a guy here locally who was always filing nuisance lawsuits and harassing people, pretending to be this “angel of righteousness”. Turns out he was caught embezzling from a school program and ended up in jail. So tick tock Scamantha, its coming.
I don’t think Scammy can use new stuff in her amended complaint. She’d have to do a whole new lawsuit, which she’ll obviously do once this one is dismissed. The judge was pretty clear she was only getting a chance to amend it on a technicality and she didn’t have much leg to stand on. MM didn’t say anything in Netflix that she hasn’t said before. Opinion on her own childhood and how she felt about it isn’t defamation. Any nimrod knew what she meant.
But anyways I really want to know who bankrolled this whole thing. I’d guess the Fail or maybe Wooton and Morgan.
She will definitely file a whole new lawsuit. That will probably go to a different judge which is their strategy. Judge shopping for a MAGA judge. These lawyers are happy to keep doing this as long as their pay masters want.
Yeah, she definitely will. Hopefully the judge shopping won’t work. She’s just a nasty piece of shit.
Even the MAGA judges will toss this shit. They don’t want to be dragged the way that MAGA judge in FL who tried to help Trump was dragged. Plus who is Scamantha, there is no incentive for anybody to help her and there is no incentive here in the US for anyone to come after Meghan like there is in the UK.
Now Scammy wants to tackle the Harry and Meghan documentary. I don’t remember Meghan or Harry calling her name and the only reference to her was the fact that her daughter lost her chance at attending the wedding because Scammy was not invited. Her daughter did mention her as being someone you could not reasoin with. If she is allowed to use H&M documentary, which was aired after her original lawsuit was filed, this would be an entirely different case. Does she intend to bring a lawsuit for every comment Meghan makes in the future?
@Kathleen, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if your last sentence turns out to be true.
The press didn’t “spin a narrative” in Meghan’s favor. When have they ever? The judge did that. This lawyer sounds as goofy as his client.
He would have to be as goofy as her to file the original law suit. But someone is gifting him a nice payday so…
Do the various RR publications have someone in common who unites them in their coordinated attacks on Meghan? Is this coming from the RF? Seriously, a much older estranged half sister who lost the right to her own children is being treated in the BM as someone much closer to Meghan and deserving of a relationship with her: Scammy is an abusive mentally ill pos. Yet if you read that above article, the pov is just insane; they literally are trying to destroy Meghan via Scammy. And it’s not just the Telegraph. Who are the ultimate crazies behind this?
That’s the million dollar question.
I long for the day when somebody digs into this nest of vipers and answers it.
Even her lawyer admitted that this was a weak case. She can re file all she wants, she will lose again and then have to pay Meghan’s legal fees. No one (except the deranged British media) takes this grifter seriously.
The BM are well aware of what a useless loser she is. They’re only using her to needle Meghan and get content, nothing more.
Keep on suing Samantha, British tabloid need a larger fund to keep on providing money to her.
Don’t forget to prepare and pay lots of money for meghan’s lawyer too.
One day, Samantha will run out of lawsuits. She’ll be denied at every appeal. What then will she do with her time?
Throw more shit fits on the Internet, same as she does every night, PInky.
The judge basically told her that the part that she can amend is going to be thrown out so Scammy has to accept that she lost.
I’m not well-versed in US law but is it possible for Meghan to sue Samantha for legal harassment? I mean, it just seems crazy to me that one person could sue the same person over and over again… this cannot be legal, right??? There’s gotta be a way to legally stop this.
That is what scammy and the British Media would like.
Suing Scammy would be a waste of time, money wise for Meghan.
She have been talking crap for 6 years and Meghan’s life goes on.
The people that believe her are just as miserable as her.
A lawsuit benefits the tabloids. Gives them something to talk about. Starve the beast. Cut off their oxygen supply. Let them flail. Don’t give TOD a victim complex (bigger than what she has). Someone needs to spend some money behind the scene to find out who’s bankrolling all of this nonsense.
She can sue her and her attorney for sanctions for filing meritless/vexatious claims. Hopefully, it would be decided on the law and merits (so no discovery and no loopholes to refile).
Maybe the people demanding to see Harry’s Visa info should ask to see who is paying her legal bills! We know it is not her. I hope the judge tells her and her lawyers about themselves!
The people bankrolling the demand to see Harry’s Visa are the same people who are bankrolling Samantha.
Scamantha has no case about anything. All her yapping has been in the public so there is a paper trail a mile wide. She can’t say all of this terrible stuff about Meghan and then claim she was “defamed” like Meghan has no right to respond. Meghan didn’t call her a horrible mother, her own daughter did. Does Scamantha want that can of worms opened?
It’s a grift. She’s not afraid of having to pay Meghan’s legal fees because she’s being bankrolled by someone. She’ll probably start a gofundme once she loses to make even more money.
Samantha is loud bark, no bite. This is not the only lawsuit she’s filed thats been dismissed. This is how she spends her life because she doesn’t have anything else better to do. Will this “even stronger” refile actually use what Meghan said in the interview and not what her lawyers imagined Meghan saying?
Since we know her lawyers are incompetent, the Judge should remind them that they cannot add the netflix docu to their amended claim, they would need to file a new lawsuit. Even then, they would lose because nothing Meghan or Asleigh said in that docu was defamatory. It’s a fact that Asleigh was adopted by her grandparents. It’s a fact that Meghan isn’t close to Samantha, like Meghan said “I don’t know your middle name, I don’t know your birthdate”. After Samantha was exposed as a jealous absentee mom, she was platformed by Tucker Carlson to spew more defamatory lies about Meghan, so she didn’t lose anything.
If Samantha wants to explain in court how it was possible for her to raise Meghan when she didn’t bother raise any of her children (babysitter issues or health issues she claims) then go ahead. But she should know she will come out of this a bigger laughing stock then she already is.
She is a bitter cranky angry self righteous big mouth who needs to go and find a job and leave people alone. No one wants to hear about this anymore. People have better things to do than listen to her big mouth.
This lawyer was sanctioned and fined for bringing the Frivolous lawsuit for trump against Hillary Clinton.
Lawsuits like these lawyers are paid upfront, so someone is bank rolling this.
They cannot add anything from Netflix, just refile the portion of the lawsuit that was not dismissed.
Scammy’s first lawyer dumped her, when Meghan’s lawyer replied to Scammy’s lies about she raised Meghan.
Scammy’s enablers are not going to send money for her go fund me, when they realize the money is going to Meghan.
If I was Meghan when I was finished with her, she wouldn’t have money to pay for her wigs or her thug.
Samantha reminds me of The Donald. They share that whole loudmouth, deranged rhetoric based on delusions and imagination.
Every time I see a photo of Scammy with that stupid tilted head pose, I want to give her a good smack.
Me too, irksome as hell. Likewise with the hair died dark to make her resemble Meghan more? Keith Richards resembles Meghan more than Scam does, ffs.
It’s one thing to talk smack to a newspaper; in court it’s put up or shut up. First, Netflix. That would be a separate lawsuit. By filing that it would confirm Scammy is being bankrolled to sue Meghan and her sponsors don’t want those questions seriously asked. Scam doesn’t live in a wealthy part of town. Even if allowed it opens TOD to questions to why did she lose custody of Ashleigh. In the US you can’t surrender custody of your child because you can’t get a babysitter like she told the Torygraph. Also the years long online trolling. Scam and her attorneys claim her accounts were hacked; in court she will have to prove it. Another problem for Scammy: Meghan’s lawyers brought in a New Mexico court case showing Scam’s last name was Rasmussen as late as Sept. 2016. That blew up Scam’s claim Meghan said she changed her last name to Markle to cash in on Meghan’s marriage. (The transcript didn’t show Meghan said that as well.) The continuation of this foolishness is more for Scam’ s pride. Every news outlet, gossip to mainstream in every country, has branded Samantha as a global joke.
FOLLOW THE MONEY, all the way back to London!!
I think we all know one of the British tabloids is funding this. However, I feel even whispering Scammy’s name is giving her more attention than she deserves. Like any narcissist, she’ll take whatever attention she can get, good or bad.
I think many Black women are familiar with this kind of harassment in workplaces settings. Samantha intends to continue to harass Meghan until she breaks, so that the Internet can vilify Meghan’s reaction.
I laugh my head off every time I hear “for the defamation and losses our client has had to endure.” What a crock of bull. Scam has nothing, lost nothing, and will win nothing. She has always been nothing and she knows it.
This is just stalking a famous half sibling who justifiably wants nothing to do with you.They have NEVER been close and have only met twice in two decades at family events; the last time 15 years ago. TOD has talked non stop trash about Meghan in paid interviews and this frivolous lawsuit is just a continuation of that harassment. It sickens me that ITV’s Good Morning champions mental health and yet they keep platforming her and bad dad. Shared DNA doesn’t entitle you to force a relationship on anyone nor does it give you the right to give foghorn commentary on whatever your famous relative is doing or saying. Yes TOD is riven with jealousy and resentment but anyone platforming her is enabling her harassment.
Exactly.
IMHO, the tabloids who are financing these lawsuits will leave Samantha in the lurch once they are dismissed and she has to pay Meghan’s legal fees. Then they will have weeks’ worth of headlines saying Meghan is bankrupting her sister.
When she owns nothing but a dilapidated van, wheelchair & an abusive ex-con and lives in a tiny rented trailer.
They’re going to come back with an even stronger case? If they’d had stronger points, they would have already used them, not waited for an appeal.
The way megan has chosen to deal with her familiy has inspired me. I too had to cut everyone off. They did way worse to me but it was hard. Megan showed a lot of us a path. With that said I’m on crazy sister side on this.
I at least think she deserves her day in court. You telling me that Samantha never visited. I just don’t believe that. There is an age gap but Samantha never begged dad for money and he never responded with “watch your sister”.
@Rackel, So, do you think Samantha watched baby Meghan when all of her children are taken from her because of her abusive behaviour? Do you really believe that or just don’t want to believe Meghan? The half sister was caught lying many many times, it is really interesting people are still giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Scamantha and her crooked lawyer couldn’t even quote correctly from the Oprah interview which they were claiming as the basis for the lawsuit. And like Meghan said, she would have loved to have had a sibling growing up. So this lying johnny come lately half sibling has just blown it all the way around. And she’s still is talking crap. So you can be on this liar’s side if you want to, birds of a feather and all.
I had a regular babysitter when I was a kid, a teenager of a friend of my dad’s. Like several times a month for a few years in a row. I do not have a bond with her, I can’t even remember her name now. If I became wildly famous, would my babysitter from when I was a child have the grounds to sue me if I don’t mention her?
She had her day in court and she lost.
@Rackel
As we would say in some parts of my neck of the woods: ‘yuh muss drink mad puss piss.’
You don’t get your day in court for a bogus claim.
Nonsense.
Who are the institutional puppeteers behind her broke ass lawsuits? The woman doesn’t have a penny to her name, meaning someone is funding her fixated lunacy.
Thomas Markle was caught on numerous occasions, reading and acting according to what was probably Buckinghwilliam-instigated and media-scripted concoctions designed to besmirch Meghan’s reputation. Whoever they are, Samantha Grant’s lawsuit sponsors and character-smearing backers are determined to weaponize the Duchess of Sussex’s blood relatives against her.
The fact that Meghan’s White relatives are the only ones to have taken the royal / media bait, unambiguously clarifies the racist overtone: the Markles are the mirror image of the Windsors. Their active collaboration is made conspicuous by Samantha’s obsessive insistence.
I’ve read the order of dismissal and Scammy had attached the transcript of the Oprah interview, but what she wrote in the complaint was shown to be false in the transcript. The Defamation Claims and Injurious Falsehoods claims were based on the same statements in the complaint. The Judge gave her one more chance to amend the complaint. Maybe Scammy will leave the Oprah interview and now go with the Netflix series.
I think Scammy needs to be careful, because the Judge will not be happy if she chooses to do again what she did before. She said one thing in the complaint and then the transcript showed something different. If she doesn’t attach the transcript t her amended complaint, Meghan could probably attach one in her answer.
Just how much does Scammy’s attorney want to be sanctioned? I think this attorney needs to be careful in any amended complaint. I have to say that Scammy better be careful going after her Attorney-daughter. That will blow up in her face. I wonder what her little Meghan hate Twitter group will say when all of the papers regarding Ashleigh being taken from her and placed elsewhere are filed? This could go very wrong for Scammy. I’d love to see that.
Let it go, Scammy.
She craves something….maybe emotionally unwell.
She still thinks it is completely legitimate to have been angry at Meghan for throwing blueberries around the kitchen as a baby when Samantha herself was a teenager. This is more than emotionally unwell. Samantha pretty clearly has a full-blown severe personality disorder.