{"id":25443,"date":"2020-07-11T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-meghan-markle-should-think-twice-about-that-libel-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:24:00","slug":"why-meghan-markle-should-think-twice-about-that-libel-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-meghan-markle-should-think-twice-about-that-libel-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Meghan Markle should think twice about that libel lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why Meghan Markle should think twice about that libel lawsuit<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n If privacy is truly what Meghan Markle craves, she should take one look at what happ<\/a>ened to Johnny Depp last week and drop her libel lawsuit against a British tabloid immedia<\/a>tely.<\/p>\n

At issue for Markle: In her initial filing against the Mail on Sunday and its owner, Associated News<\/a>papers, in October 2019, she claimed the paper violated her privacy by publishing a letter she wrote to her father \u2014 a letter she mailed to him, and which he gave, or sold, to the Mail. Markle also maintains that the paper edited her letter to make her seem like a villain.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease allow us to live our lives in peace,\u201d it read in part. \u201cPlease stop lying, please stop creating so much pain, please stop exploiting my relationship with my husband \u2026 if you take a moment to pause I think you\u2019ll see that being able to live with a clear conscience<\/a> is more valuable than any payment in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not a terribly toothy letter, that. In fact, in some ways \u2014 in my opinion only, don\u2019t sue, Meghan \u2014 it reads like a document that the writer suspects will be leaked to the media. Take this part, which seems almost alibi-like in its exposition:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the week of the wedding to hear about you having a heart attack through a tabloid was horrifying. I called and texted \u2026 I begged you to accept help \u2014 we sent someone to your home \u2026 and instead of speaking to me to accept this or any help, you stopped answering your phone and chose to only speak to tabloids.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also a helpful refutation of her father\u2019s claims that his daughter had changed her phone number, and he didn\u2019t have her new one \u2014 a piece of minutiae surely known only to the most die-hard royal watchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy phone number has remained the same,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

These details are salient: Libel lawsuits in the UK, as Depp is learning, are far more brutal than those in the US. Depp filed suit over just one adjective, \u201cwife-beater.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Johnny Depp arrives at court in London.<\/span>Neil Hall\/EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But instead of a trial narrowly focused on that word, the world has been made privy to the most grisly, humiliating details of his ill-fated marriage to ex-wife Amber Heard \u2014 evidence submitted in everything from Depp\u2019s drug binges at breakfast to Heard, or one of her friends, pooping in the marital bed.<\/p>\n

And just like that, the Coolest Guy in the World has become, perhaps irrevocably, a sad caricature of an aged-out, irrelevant movie star.<\/p>\n

Yet here\u2019s Markle doubling down last week, filing an application to prevent the Mail on Sunday \u2014 as part of their defense \u2014 from naming five friends who spoke to People magazine for a glowing 2019 cover story about Markle.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeghan Markle\u2019s Best Friends Break Their Silence: We Want to Speak the Truth,\u201d went the coverline.<\/p>\n

The notion that these friends spoke without direct authorization from the Duchess of Sussex is laughable. People magazine itself made the slant of this write-around profile clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter maintaining their silence for nearly two years, five women who form an essential part of Meghan\u2019s inner circle have spoken with People to \u2018stand up against the global bullying we are seeing and speak the truth about our friend,\u2019\u201d says a longtime friend and former co-star.<\/p>\n

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This undated photo released by London\u2019s High Court shows injuries said to have been sustained during an incident with Johnny Depp.<\/span>Court Photo via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSelfless\u201d and \u201cthe best listener\u201d is how her friends depicted Markle here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I\u2019m thrown some kind of curveball, I always think, \u2018I gotta talk to Meg,\u2019\u201d another colleague told People. \u201cWe talk daily. And the first thing out of her mouth is, \u2018How are the kids? How are you?\u2019 I\u2019m not even allowed to ask about her until she finds out about me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

And the issue here for Markle is \u2026 ?<\/p>\n

Ever since she wed Prince Harry in 2018 \u2014 a wedding watched by 1.9 billion people, attended by largely glowing media coverage about the new, divorced, biracial American who was a breath of fresh air \u2014 we have been unrelentingly subjected to Markle\u2019s victim narrative.<\/p>\n

She has complained about the British tabloids, about the Royal Family, about no one asking her \u201cif I\u2019m okay\u201d during a trip<\/a> to Africa where she met with poor and starving children living under the threat of violence.<\/p>\n

Poor Harry and Meghan. The Queen wouldn\u2019t let them brand SussexRoyal, so now they can\u2019t peddle various and sundry tchotchkes. The pandemic has prevented them from giving paid speeches, as Harry did in February to JP Morgan Chase on life without his mother.<\/p>\n

Princess Diana\u2019s premature, tragic and preventable death, by the way, was Harry and Meghan\u2019s stated reason for stepping down as senior royals and staying out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Yet here they are, monetizing Harry\u2019s most painful and once-private loss. And in August comes another Sussex-approved gambit, the forthcoming book \u201cFinding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a great title. Two famous, privileged, wealthy global celebrities fleeing a castle in the night, just the clothes on their backs, looking for independence while taking refuge in a $14 million mansion in Canada \u2014 since upgraded to Tyler Perry\u2019s $18 million LA mansion, where they reportedly pay rent \u2014 still bankrolled by Harry\u2019s father Prince Charles.<\/p>\n

Does Markle think this book won\u2019t come up at a libel trial? Does she think there will be no mention of the book\u2019s co-author, Omid Scobie, who told the press in May that he\u2019d been working on it, with both Harry and Meghan, since 2018, the year they married?<\/p>\n

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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard<\/span>Kevork Djansezian\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We keep hearing how media-savvy Meghan is, that her time in Hollywood made her a master at manipulating the press. But this decision to sue for libel makes no sense. Perhaps she\u2019s confused her time on a basic-cable legal drama with actual legal expertise.<\/p>\n

Meghan can\u2019t have it both ways. She can\u2019t sue for intrusion of privacy while doing everything she can to stay in the spotlight. And if she really wanted to retreat, no better time \u2014 we\u2019re all under lockdown, preoccupied with our own pressing real-world issues.<\/p>\n

Yet Markle is willing to do battle in court over such libelous claims that she didn\u2019t invite her mother, Doria, to her star-studded baby shower in New York.<\/p>\n

Johnny Depp, who has lived his entire adult life in the spotlight, has seen the smallest aperture widen out into a forensic examination of his alleged addictions, demons, and failings \u2014 accompanied by photos of him allegedly passed out, bloody and burned, insults scrawled in his own blood. His public image, carefully cultivated over decades, has been blown to bits in just four days of testimony.<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle, ostensible spin doctor extraordinaire, should take heed.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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