Meghan Markle accused of plagiarism, copying children's author for canceled Netflix show
Meghan Markle is facing another wave of plagiarism proposes In a new interview with The Daily Mail British author Mel Elliott who authored a children's book series titled Pearl Power claimed Markle's scrapped Netflix series Pearl had similarities to her books that were too great to ignore Meghan is a feminist who sticks up for other women so I was disappointed and confused to see how similar Netflix's proposed show Pearl was to my own Pearl Power who had been created seven years earlier Elliott explained of the animated series which was originally communicated in but canceled less than a year later Of lesson I can't know if anyone on her association had seen it and been inspired by it but the similarities were too great for me to ignore MEGHAN MARKLE ACCUSED OF COPYING IDEAS AS SHE LAUNCHES NEW PODCAST PROJECTThe author who had plans to turn her books into an animated series claimed her attorney reached out to Markle and Netflix but never received a response The similarities between your proposed animation series and my client's work appear to be too a multitude of and too striking to be mere coincidence Elliott's lawyers allegedly wrote to Markle and Netflix in It also appears that there is a liability that your proposed series may infringe intellectual property rights belonging to my client and or may give rise to a claim in passing off As Elliot stated the Daily Mail The world of arts and media are very competitive and I'm afraid it's quite common for powerful people to rip off the work of less well-known creatives although I'm not saying that's what happened here What saddened me preponderance is that having brought the similarities between my Pearl' and Meghan's Pearl to the attention of Netflix and Archewell my objection was never acknowledged - neither Netflix nor Archewell responded to me when I would have loved to have contributed and collaborated she added Representatives for Markle and Netflix have not yet responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment Markle's series which also included Elton John's husband David Furnish as an executive producer stated the story of a little girl who learns to step into her power Elliot's series focuses on equality and female empowerment Pearl was canceled in May I am glad that Meghan's Pearl show was dropped and I hope that I had something to do with it Elliot disclosed But what I really needed was for it to have gone ahead and for me to have been acknowledged or invited to work as a collaborator on the series 'Pearl' was my dream project and now annoyingly if I reprise my own creation it's going to look like I have copied the idea from someone else she added LIKE WHAT YOU RE READING CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSEarlier this year Markle was met with accusations of copying others who came before her after announcing her new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder Multiple online instantly pointed out the similarities in the title to an already existing podcast Confessions of a CEO Maybe you would like to know Meghan Markle has ripped off another woman s podcast called confessions of a CEO ' one user wrote on X A simple google search would help Meghan Tell me you don t have a single original thought without telling me you don t have a single original thought another user wrote with a screenshot of the Confessions of a CEO podcast page CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERAfter launching her cooking show on Netflix countless compared the endeavor to Pamela Anderson's cooking show Anderson circulated Pamela's Cooking with Love in February while Markle's hit Netflix on March Royal expert Neil Sean in a video for his YouTube channel called Markle s show a frame-for-frame copy of Anderson's work in various cases As you can see Meghan has been inspired by her Anderson s cookery show right Sean announced showing a shot of Markle high-fiving her guest on set next to one of Anderson high-fiving her guest There s very little new in the world of cookery he disclosed It s hard to reinvent it but Meghan didn t even bother with that Clearly she just got inspired Markle was also accused of stealing another's idea with the logo for her lifestyle brand As Ever Francisca Xisca Mora the mayor of the Mallorcan town of Porreres in Spain claimed to local outlets that the Duchess of Sussex s brand logo is an exact copy of their historic coat of arms The logo for the -year-old s lifestyle brand is featured on its website It highlights a black and white palm tree in the center flanked by two hummingbirds Fox News Digital's Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this post
