{"id":163520,"date":"2025-04-21T21:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/meghan-markle-accused-of-plagiarizing-idea-for-netflix-kids-show\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T21:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:43:59","slug":"meghan-markle-accused-of-plagiarizing-idea-for-netflix-kids-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/meghan-markle-accused-of-plagiarizing-idea-for-netflix-kids-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Accused of Plagiarizing Idea For Netflix Kids&#8217; Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With her food and lifestyle series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/03\/meghan-markles-netflix-show-renewed-for-season-2-despite-harsh-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meghan Markle has finally created a hit series for Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it couldn\u2019t have come soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan and Prince Harry had some initial success for the streaming giant when they debuted a limited series about their lives back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>But the intervening years saw lots of forgettable projects (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2024\/12\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-distancing-themselves-from-polo-series-amid-dismal-reviews-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polo<\/a><\/em>, anyone?) and a few ideas that never even reached the pilot stage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle appears on her new Netflix series.\" class=\"wp-image-520759 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc-728x410.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AAAAQTxsGxNcEv01A5iDsVYCb5fkoCQnvMFvOs2bDiRQjL8ktSr2nFveke23R6Wb9irhSJ0-vgGt6J6iGgYUbW6pyv-BZ9Z7OAM4-wKgJSY6dV_H5FzAB0uAnh_P-tdj_aByF5Cr_QzdwRuKhF28FR0JPJr70fc.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meghan Markle has not received rave reviews for her Netflix series.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Netflix)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of those concepts that never got off the ground was a children\u2019s show titled <em>Pearl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The show never saw the light of day, but it\u2019s the subject of a new controversy, as a well-known British author claims that Meghan stole the idea without offering any sort of compensation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-meghan-markle-faces-surprising-plagiarism-allegation\">Meghan Markle faces surprising plagiarism allegation<\/h2>\n<p>Mel Elliott is the author of a series of kids\u2019 books that feature a character named Pearl Power, and she claims that Meghan or someone on her team sought to steal the concept for their show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeghan is a feminist who sticks up for other women, so I was disappointed and confused to see how similar Netflix\u2019s proposed show \u2018Pearl\u2019 was to my own Pearl Power, who had been created seven years earlier,\u201d Elliott told the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14628355\/Meghan-Markle-accused-ripping-British-author-book-Netflix-show.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em> this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I can\u2019t know if anyone on her team had seen it and been inspired by it, but the similarities were too great for me to ignore,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speaks on stage at the \" friends=\"\" home=\"\" event=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" station=\"\" airport=\"\" during=\"\" day=\"\" three=\"\" of=\"\" invictus=\"\" games=\"\" d=\"\" on=\"\" september=\"\" in=\"\" duesseldorf=\"\" germany.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speaks on stage at the \" friends=\"\" home=\"\" event=\"\" at=\"\" the=\"\" station=\"\" airport=\"\" during=\"\" day=\"\" three=\"\" of=\"\" invictus=\"\" games=\"\" d=\"\" on=\"\" september=\"\" in=\"\" duesseldorf=\"\" germany.=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523909 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1676592479-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meghan, Duchess of Sussex speaks on stage at the \u201cFriends @ Home Event\u201d at the Station Airport during day three of the Invictus Games D\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf 2023 on September 12, 2023 in Duesseldorf, Germany. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Chris Jackson\/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe world of arts and media are very competitive, and I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s quite common for powerful to people to rip off the work of less well-known creatives \u2014 although I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s what happened here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Elliott attempted to reach out to the Duchess of Sussex in an effort to make her aware of \u201csimilarities between [her] proposed animation series and [Elliott\u2019s] work,\u201d which they stated were \u201ctoo many and too striking to be mere coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also appears that there is a risk that your proposed series may infringe intellectual property rights belonging to my client and\/or may give rise to a claim in passing off (or in the US, some form of unfair competition,\u2019\u201d they wrote in one letter.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot says the alleged theft took place after she shared her ideas on a \u201cwebsite that enables creators to connect with film and TV producers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that listing, my client says: \u2018I would love to turn Pearl Power into an animated series someday, educating children about inspirational women from modern history (as well as a few men),\u2019\u201d says an attorney for the author.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaks onstage at EAN University on August 15, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.\" class=\"wp-image-523908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaks onstage at EAN University on August 15, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.\" class=\"wp-image-523908 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2166241418-4-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaks onstage at EAN University on August 15, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Diego Cuevas\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elliott says her legal team sent a total of three letters to Markle and Netflix about their concerns, but they never received a response.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix eventually axed the show due to \u201cbudget cuts.\u201d Elliott says she\u2019s happy the project never materialized, but she\u2019s still saddened by the whole situation.<\/p>\n<p>Elliorr tells the <em>Mail<\/em> that she\u2019d \u201cglad that Meghan\u2019s \u2018Pearl\u2019 show was dropped\u201d and hopes she \u201chad something to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what I really wanted was for it to have gone ahead and for me to have been acknowledged or invited to work as a collaborator on the series,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPearl was my dream project and now, annoyingly, if I reprise my own creation, it\u2019s going to look like I have copied the idea from someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/04\/meghan-markle-accused-of-plagiarizing-idea-for-netflix-kids-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes With her food and lifestyle series, Meghan Markle has finally created a hit series for Netflix. And it couldn\u2019t have come soon enough. Meghan and Prince Harry had some initial success for the streaming giant when they debuted a limited series about their lives back in 2021. But the intervening years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}