Meghan Markles suspended Netflix -Show met plagiarism -claims

• Meghan Markles scrapped Netflix animated series is now facing plagiarism charges
• British writer Mel Elliott recently told Daily mail How Meghan’s GEM Series drilled “striking” similarities with her Pearl power children’s books
• Elliott said that she and her lawyers were enough for a representative of the Duchess of Sussex and Netflix several times but never heard: “I would have loved to have contributed and collaborated”

A British writer claims that Meghan MarkleSuggested children’s series for Netflix wore similarities to her children’s books.

Mel Elliott told Daily mail to Pearl A television series announced by the Duchess of Sussex in July 2021, for whom she and Elton John’s husband, David Möblerwould serve as executive producers before it was dropped – had similarities “too big for me to ignore” to her children’s book series, Pearl power.

People have reached representatives of the Duchess of Sussex and Netflix for comments.

GEM Centered on a little girl who “learns to go into her power and finds inspiration from influential women throughout history.” While Elliott’s three Pearl Power books originally did not contain well -known women from history, they were centered for female empowerment and equity.

In 2018, years before Meghan’s Netflix approach, Elliott says she started working on plans to turn Pearl power to an animated series. She said her idea was to open each episode with Pearl who presented a school project on a famous, inspiring woman before going on a shared adventure. Test animation for the first section, which was set to contain tennis legend Billie Jean King, is Still available to see On Elliott’s social media pages.

Elliott told Daily post, “Meghan is a feminist who stands out for other women, so I was disappointed and confused to see how similar Netflix suggested show GEM was to my own Pearl power, which had been created seven years earlier. Of course, I can’t know if anyone in her team had seen it and been inspired by it, but the similarities were too great for me to ignore. ”

“The world of art and the media are very competitive, and I am afraid that it is quite common for powerful people to rip off less well-known creative work-if I don’t say that was what happened here,” she noted.

Elliott said that her lawyers sent Meghan a letter through the Duke and Duke of Sussex’s charity, The Archewell Foundation, in July 2021, and the author himself followed up with personal missions to both Archewell and Netflix in October 2021 and February 2022. But she never heard anything back.

In May 2022 Netflix announced that Meghan’s GEM The series had been canceled. At that time streamer said they scaled back on animated projects, with reference GEM As one of several children’s shows that were canceled at about the same time.

Elliott said: “I’m glad that Meghan is GEM The show was dropped, and I hope I had something to do with it. But what I really wanted was for it to have moved on, and because I would have been recognized or invited to work as a collaborator in the series. ”

She added,“GEM Be my dream project and now, annoying, if I repeat my own creation, it will look like I have copied the idea from someone else. ”

“The most sad me is that after taking the similarities between my GEM And Meghan’s GEM To the attention of Netflix and Archewell, my objection is never recognized.

The author claimed that she did not take her plagiarism claims at that time to avoid general review. She was also in the middle of a health struggle, after being diagnosed with breast cancer 2019.

Prince Harry and Meghan signed an agreement with Netflix 2020 for reported $ 100 million. Except With love, Meghanwhich premiered in March and will have a second seasonal air later this year, they played in the docuseries Harry & Meghan 2022. They also produced PoloThe Live to lead and Heart of Invictus.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions also plans to customize Roman’s novel Meet me by the lake by author Carley Fortune to the streaming service.