Samantha Markle's legal crew say they have a "viable" defamation case in opposition to Meghan Markle for comments made all through her interview with Oprah Winfrey and records supplied to the authors of the biography Finding Freedom due to the fact they have "actual proof of the falsity of these statements," Newsweek has been told.
Jamie Sasson of the Ticktin Law Group, legal assistance performing for Samantha Markle in her defamation suit, advised Newsweek that the royal's half-sister had a "viable claim" and meant to persist with the case despite a current submitting by way of Meghan's legal professionals disputing the foundation of her complaints.



On July 25, Meghan's legal professionals filed a reply to their motion for a dismissal of her half-sister's lawsuit, arguing that the duchess could now not be sued for defamation over the statement that she "grew up as an solely child" throughout her interview with Winfrey because it was "subjective" and now not meant as a assertion of "objective fact."
They additionally declare that Meghan can't be sued over statements made in Finding Freedom due to the fact she did no longer author the work.



"Our function on this is that we still experience assured this is a conceivable defamation declare and Mrs Markle [Meghan] is trying to spin this around regarding the Oprah show stating that this is 'subjective' thinking that she was an 'only child' but that is now not subjective. Either you are an only toddler or you're not.
"When she went on Oprah and stated 'I grew up as an only child' there's only one way to seem to be at that, that she was an solely child," he continued.



"Which then as a result, made the widely wide-spread understanding of the public believe that my customer was a liar and was once making up a story claiming that she was Meghan Markle's sister when, indeed, she sincerely was and this is what this comes down to."
He added: "When you make the comment in front of millions of humans which is false and then try to turn round and say 'it's my subjective thinking' well—she didn't make that clear on Oprah that it is her subjective thinking."

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