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Meghan Markle scored a massive legal victory in the defamation lawsuit brought against her by her half-sister, Samantha Markle.
The judge dismissed the suit against the Duchess of Sussex on Tuesday with prejudice, meaning Samantha cannot level her claim again.
Court documents obtained by Page Six state Samantha “failed to identify any statements that could support a claim for defamation or defamation-by-implication by this point, her third try at amending her complaint…”
The court dismissed Samantha’s lawsuit with prejudice. Fox
Samantha cannot level the defamation claims against the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ever again. Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation
The judge specifically noted that there were no examples of defamation to be found in Meghan and Prince Harry’s Netflix docu-series, “Meghan & Harry,” Omid Scobie’s “Finding Freedom” or in the couple’s hourlong sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired on CBS.
The judge found that Samantha, 59, supplied “mischaracterizations of the [interview] transcript” and determined that the couple’s statements about Samantha and her father, Thomas Markle, were “quintessential examples of opinion.”
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