Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex has scored a big win in court as defamation lawsuit filed by her half-sister, Samantha Markle, has been tossed out by a Florida judge.
A Florida judge dismissed the lawsuit saying that Meghan Markle’s statements were pure opinion and ‘not capable of being proved false’.
Samantha had claimed that Meghan’s statement to Oprah Winfrey that she grew up as an only child and only met her (Samantha) a handful of times was false, malicious and humiliating.
Meghan’s legal team tried to get the case dismissed last month, saying their client was merely talking about her life the way she saw it.
‘As a reasonable listener would understand it, Defendant merely expresses an opinion about her childhood and her relationship with her half-siblings,’ the court noted.
‘Thus, the Court finds that Defendant’s statement is not objectively verifiable or subject to empirical proof…. Plaintiff cannot plausibly disprove Defendant’s opinion of her own childhood,’ it added.
A Florida judge who has now given a judgement on the case, dismissed Samantha Markle’s $75K lawsuit, ruling that Meghan’s opinion of her experiences while growing up was just her opinion and not defamation.
