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Samantha Markle accused her half-sister, the Duchess of Sussex, of wielding her six-episode Netflix miniseries as a weapon to unfold “malicious, hurtful, and damaging lies” about her on a world stage, she claimed on Thursday.
The brand new allegations are a part of an amended model of Markle’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Meghan, filed inside hours of a two-week deadline a choose had set for her—after granting Meghan’s movement to dismiss the unique declare.
In a press release on the time, Markle’s lawyer swore they’d be returning with an “even stronger” case.
Versus specializing in Meghan’s 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the amended criticism zeroes in on Harry & Meghan. Within the sequence, Samantha Markle claimed, Meghan made statements searching for to “demonize” her, portraying her as “a liar,” “a fame seeker,” and “a racist.”
She even alleged that a few of Meghan’s followers launched “hate-filled smear campaigns” in opposition to her because of the present, saying she’d been the goal of “demise threats” and “trolls” who hacked her Twitter account.
She launched her authentic case simply over a yr in the past, in March 2022, suing Meghan for “defamation and injurious falsehoods,” amongst different issues.
In it, she pointed at three particular statements Meghan had made which she alleged had triggered her hurt: that Meghan mentioned she was “an solely baby,” claimed she had solely met her half-sister “a handful of occasions,” and that Samantha modified her surname to “money in on her newfound fame.”
In her dismissal of the swimsuit, U.S. District Decide Charlene Edwards Honeywell wrote that Meghan was merely “expressing an opinion about her childhood” when she claimed to have grown up as an solely baby.
She additionally famous that the opposite two claims contradicted the precise transcript of Meghan’s interview with Oprah.
It's unclear if the up to date case will fare any higher.