‘Each and every statement is non-actionable’: Federal judge tosses Meghan Markle half-sister’s defamation lawsuit ‘with prejudice’ as fixing it ‘would be futile’

Meghan Markle and Samantha Markle

Meghan Markle (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images), Samantha Markle (via Sunrise Channel 7 Australia / YouTube screengrab).

A federal judge in Florida completely threw out a defamation lawsuit that Samantha Markle failed to fix the third time around in her quest to hold Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex and her half-sister, accountable for comments made on a CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 and, more recently, for remarks on the Netflix series “Harry & Meghan.”

Senior U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell told the plaintiff on Tuesday that she saw no reason to do anything other than dismiss the case with prejudice, meaning the defamation and defamation by implication claims cannot be filed again. The reason for the resounding dismissal for failure to state a claim — with no leave to amend the lawsuit — was stated plainly.

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