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Meghan Markle wants her half-sister’s “meritless defamation case” tossed and is demanding that her estranged sibling cover her attorneys’ fees.
In court documents obtained by Page Six, the Duchess of Sussex, 40, filed to dismiss Samantha Markle’s lawsuit stemming from the royal’s March 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, during which Samantha claimed that Meghan lied about both her upbringing and their relationship.
But according to Meghan’s lawyers, Samantha’s complaint “has no place in this court or any other” because they feel she is asking the court to decide whether she and Meghan “had ever ‘been close,’ how many times the two ‘crossed paths’ as adults and whether Meghan’s feelings that she ‘grew up as an only child’ are ‘true’ or false.’”
“We do not empanel juries to rule on whether two people are ‘close,’ or whether one genuinely feels that they ‘grew up as an only child,’” the documents state. “Courts are not equipped to adjudicate the legitimacy of a person’s feelings about their childhood and relationships. Nor should they be.”
Meghan’s team argued that Samantha’s dispute “does not state a claim for defamation or injurious falsehood” and asked her to pay for the court costs Meghan has incurred while defending herself.
In March, Samantha (who has also gone by Samantha Grant and Samantha Rasmussen) filed her $75,000 lawsuit against Meghan, alleging she made “false and malicious statements” during the high-profile sit-down with husband Prince Harry, 37.
Samantha, 57, accused the former “Suits” star of falsely claiming to be “an only child” and presenting a fraudulent timeline of when they last saw each other.
“The defamatory implication is that [Samantha] had no relationship whatsoever with her sister Meghan, they were virtual strangers and that [Samantha] has created a lucrative career selling false stories to tabloids and television programs when she knows nothing about [Meghan’s] childhood,” the filing read.
Samantha — who lives in Tampa, Fla. — went on to accuse Meghan — who lives in Santa Barbara, Calif. — of bashing their father, 77-year-old Thomas Markle, in an attempt to sell the world a false “rags-to-royalty” narrative of her life.
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