Samantha Markle, half-sister of Meghan Markle, has alleged that she confronted “lifelike dying threats” and was “compelled to maneuver residences” as a result of backlash following the discharge of the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary, per newly filed courtroom paperwork cited by Newsweek.
Samantha, who shares a father with Meghan, initially filed a defamation lawsuit in 2022 in opposition to Meghan, claiming the Duchess had made “disparaging, hurtful, and false” remarks in her interview with Oprah Winfrey and within the ‘Harry & Meghan’ documentary sequence on Netflix.
Samantha’s lawsuit argues that Meghan portrayed her as “a stranger, a liar, and a… misleading fame-seeking imposter with avaricious intentions,” which Samantha says has broken her fame.
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Meghan’s authorized crew defended her statements, claiming, “An implicit or categorical assertion that (Samantha) belongs to a hate group spreading disinformation about Meghan is an opinion protected by the First Modification.” Meghan received the preliminary case; nonetheless, Samantha has since appealed the ruling, bringing the case to the eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Enchantment.
Meghan Markle’s sister ‘was by no means was a part of any hate group’
Samantha’s lawyer, Peter Ticktin, contended, “There will be little question that Meghan Markle attacked her sister Samantha Markle verbally in her documentary.” Ticktin argued that Samantha, who makes use of a wheelchair, confronted extreme backlash from the Sussexes’ supporters and needed to relocate for security.
Central to Samantha’s case is a scene within the Netflix documentary the place Christopher Bouzy, a pal of Meghan and Harry, mentioned the extraordinary on-line harassment that Meghan endured because of “individuals who have been simply not the everyday quote-unquote trolls.”
“These are housewives, these are middle-aged Caucasian ladies,” Bouzy said and claimed that “Samantha Markle was a part of the group that was placing out quite a lot of this disinformation.”
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“You make individuals wish to kill me. It’s not only a tabloid. It’s not just a few story. You make me scared,” the scene concluded.
Ticktin contended that “(Samantha) was by no means was a part of any group which put out disinformation, by no means trolled Meghan, was by no means a part of any hate group, by no means used the N-word on tweets, by no means monetized any hate tweets in opposition to Meghan, or did something to make anybody wish to kill Meghan or have Meghan made nervous due to any such exercise.”
