On Thursday, a judge ruled in Meghan Markle’s favor against Associated Newspapers and The Mail On Sunday in her lawsuit over the publications invading her privacy by publishing a letter she wrote to her estranged father. Now, Meghan has broken her silence to talk about her court victory.
“After two long years of pursuing litigation, I am grateful to the courts for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday to account for their illegal and dehumanizing practices,” Meghan said, according to Fox News.
“These tactics (and those of their sister publications MailOnline and the Daily Mail) are not new; in fact, they’ve been going on for far too long without consequence,” she added. “For these outlets, it’s a game. For me and so many others, it’s real life, real relationships, and very real sadness. The damage they have done and continue to do runs deep.”
“The world needs reliable, fact-checked, high-quality news,” Meghan continued. “What The Mail on Sunday and its partner publications do is the opposite. We all lose when misinformation sells more than truth, when moral exploitation sells more than decency, and when companies create their business model to profit from people’s pain.”
“But for today, with this comprehensive win on both privacy and copyright, we have all won. We now know, and hope it creates legal precedent, that you cannot take somebody’s privacy and exploit it in a privacy case, as the defendant has blatantly done over the past two years. I share this victory with each of you—because we all deserve justice and truth, and we all deserve better,” Meghan concluded. “I particularly want to thank my husband, mom, and legal team, and especially Jenny Afia for her unrelenting support throughout this process.”
This came after Judge Mark Warby ruled that the publications misused Markle’s private information in publishing the private letter that she wrote to her father. He added that Meghan “had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. The Mail articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.”
Though Meghan has won her case on privacy grounds, Warby added that a “limited trial” should be held to decide some of the copyright issues. This means that Meghan may soon found herself back in court for another battle against the publications.
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