A Florida judge has granted Meghan's request for dismissal in a defamation lawsuit brought by her half-sister, Samantha Markle, over comments made to Oprah.
, Jamie Sasson, Samantha Markle's legal representative, said that the point of the statement was indisputable.
"When she went on Oprah and said 'I grew up as an only child' there's only one way to look at that, that she was an only child," he said."Which then as a result, made the general perception of the public believe that my client was a liar and was making up a story claiming that she was Meghan Markle's sister when, indeed, she truly was and this is what this comes down to.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their interview with Oprah Winfrey, March 2021. She won her bid to have her half-sister's defamation lawsuit thrown out.In Judge Edwards Honeywell's ruling on Thursday, she sided with Meghan's interpretation of the statement, saying its intent would have been obvious to a reasonable listener.
"As a reasonable listener would understand it, Defendant [Meghan] merely expresses an opinion about her childhood and her relationship with her half-siblings," she said."Thus, the Court finds that Defendant's [Meghan's] statement is not objectively verifiable or subject to empirical proof." "Plaintiff [Samantha] cannot plausibly disprove Defendant's [Meghan's] opinion of her own childhood—that she 'grew up as an only child' and wished she had siblings. [...] Because the statement is not 'capable of being proved false, it is protected from a defamation action.'"
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