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Hush Money Dilemma

[Blind Gossip] When your reputation needs to be kept squeaky clean but your relatives won’t shut up about you, what do you do?

In the case of this recently-married actress, the solution is very simple… and very complicated!

Her family members are desperate for money. She could easily shut them all up if she paid them each a stipend every month. I heard that the total to all the individuals involved would be approximately $60,000 USD a month.

However, she does not have as large a nest egg as people might think and that nest egg would erode quickly. Her husband has the money, but would face enormous hurdles from his family if he tried to use his inheritance as hush money for the next fifty years!

There is also the unpleasant fact that her family members have thus far proven wildly unpredictable and unstable. Even with contracts, there are no guarantees that the stipends would result in both stability and silence.

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[Optional] What should the Bride and Groom do?

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  1. Megan & Harry
    They will never shut up, even with stipend. She will start phasing them out and giving no info or give them specific info approved to share.

  5. Meghan & Harry. They should ignore her family. If they pay them hush money, they’ll be paying it for the rest of their lives.

  6. Must be Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

    Don’t pay. As Perry Mason said, there’s only one way to deal with blackmailers…

  7. Meghan and Harry

    Don’t pay her “distant relatives” a dime, it’s practically extortion/blackmail money to keep them quiet. They are grifters and it’s a shame they are behaving this way. I would just continue to ignore them. I would say make a plea to the media to ignore the Markle trash, but the media wants to embarrass Meghan. It’ll die down, until then, don’t allow them to extort her.

  8. Meghan’s and Harry.
    They should do nothing. Everyone knows her family hates her,they are jealous .

  9. Well, it’s deffo Princess Meg. And there’s probably nothing she *can* do about those wretched, mouthy, duplicitous garbage people who call themselves ‘’family,’’ so the best thing she can possibly do — in my opinion — is to continue loving and getting to know her husband and his clan, stay gracious toward the public, and remain silent on the matter. I really admire her. I would have already crammed dog hair down my sister’s gas tank if she were as awful as Samantha effing Markle. Just sayin’…

  11. Meghan and Harry
    Send the secret service to shut them up. First visit is a warning, if a second is needed then it’ll be permanent. As a Brit I totally sanction this, her family are awful.

    • Hear Hear!!!
      I truly think it is time for them to crawl back now, they married now, it’s done!! Give it a rest……
      Just sad they just can’t be happy for her she married a man that loves her,…

  13. meghan markle
    prince harry

    absolutely do not give them money! just ride it out. i dont think people even believe any of them at this point.

  14. Bride: Meghan
    Groom: Prince Harry

    What should they do? Ignore them and live their lives. If everyone in the news did the same, her relatives would go away.

  16. I think most people perceive Meghan’s rogue relatives as unstable, untrustworthy a*holes so she’s probably better off saving her money and ignoring them

  17. Bride: Meghan Markle

    Groom: Prince Harry

    Ugh I feel for her, it must suck to have a trashy family in this position. I don’t think paying them off would even help, as they’d keep upping the ask and still behaving erratically. If I were Meghan, I would just completely ignore them (both publicly and privately), and hope that the media loses interest eventually. There’s only so much they can say, unless she has some kind of salacious secret she’s trying to bury.

  20. Meghan Markle
    Prince Harry

    This is so damn disgusting. They should simply go to major outlets and tell them if they even accept a call or email from meghan’s “family” they won’t get the scoop on any of the royal family ever again. It’s so disgusting that these people she hasn’t spoken to in 10-20 years are doing this. What happened to getting a job or leaving her alone like she’s left them alone for decades?

  21. megan markle
    prince harry

    just let the relatives talk. no one really cares & once you own up to whatever you did, no one can hold it against you anymore

    • Makes me wonder what the family has on her that she’d even consider $$ to shut them up. You’re a product of your upbringing and if these people have issues, it’s a good bet Meghan has issues as well. Apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree. These next few years ought to be interesting.

  23. Megan and Prince Harry. They should try smoothing over the rift and invite them to the palace.