Samantha Markle’s lawyer has sounded “confident” after a key hearing in his client’s defamation lawsuit against Meghan Markle, her half-sister.
Samantha is suing Meghan over comments about her childhood made in the Oprah interview and on the Netflix series “Harry & Meghan.”
Lawyers for Samantha Markle are confident of legal victory
At the Nov. 8 hearing, lawyers for both sides faced off to argue whether the case should be dismissed or should continue.
Samantha attended, but Meghan did not. They are still awaiting the judge’s decision.
Peter Ticktin, Samantha’s lawyer, told Newsweek he feels confident that Judge Honeywell is being fair, and understands the case better after he explained how Meghan sought to discourage reading Samantha’s book, “The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister,” with her comments.
Meghan told Oprah that she grew up as an “only child” and wished she had siblings.
Her lawyers claim that was an opinion about her childhood, not a factual statement about her relationship with Samantha.
Also in the ‘Harry & Meghan’ docuseries, the duchess said she lived with her mother during the week and her father on weekends, and that he “He had two adult children who had moved out of his house.”
She then addressed Samantha saying “You’re telling people you raised me.”
Meghan is seeking to have the case dismissed before she gets to that stage and has to testify.
“Three times (Samantha Markle) has tried and failed to turn a personal grudge into a federal case for reasons unbeknownst to Meghan,” the duchess’ lawyers said. “This action should be dismissed with prejudice,” they ruled.
The outcome of this sisterly feud is in the hands of the U.S. judiciary.