american riviera orchard - what was that all about then?

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It seems to have gone the same way as their Sussex Royal site. I don't know much about social media or PR, but this all seems pretty odd and ineffectual.

Megan is a very wealthy woman independently
She was worth a few million when she married

Did suits really pay that much? What other income stream did she have? There was the advert for, is it called Reichmans? Not sure how much that was worth, The Tig will have brought in a steady income I would have thought but not necessarily big numbers. I suspect if she had millions it came from a settlement from Trevor so not really independent wealth. A previous poster said she didn’t own a house or even a car and I have read she spent a lot of her suits income hiring Sunshine Sachs to promote her so I’m not sure she was as wealthy as we were lead to believe.

Yes it was syndicated, so when it goes across multiple countries and regions it is a lot of money. She was worth 6m dollars when she met him.

I don't think anyone really has a clue what she was worth. I personally doubt it was that much but as I say, none of us really knows. Even if she may have been worth a few million, that's peanuts for the lifestyle she aspires to.

Syndication may have made a lot of money for the studio, but very little of that will have tricked down to the cast.

It wouldn't surprise me if she did a Jackie Kennedy. I am amazed they are still together so I suppose its anybodys guess what will happen in the future.

I suppose, but for the fact that he's in self imposed exile and can't be trusted, he would have been regent. Him or Andrew. Shuddering at the thought. It would't be Catherine unless she'd actually been queen first. Anne would of course be superb, as would Edward.

There does sound to be some truth in the Queen Mother's money being distributed in two chunks. That ties in with reports that Harry had already received some, and still being due to receive some upon turning 40.

Cosmo are renowned for their love of dick, so no surprise they love Harry.

I’d disagree, she was paid 35k an episode in seasons 1-4 and 50k an episode Seasons 4-7. There is no way round the fact Megan was independently wealthy when she met Harry. Her salary was published,

Again, I'm not sure how you can know what she was paid. Her salary was 'published' by whom?

Claire Foy got 40K an episode as the star of Netflix's no expenses spared flagship prestige show.

Are you saying that Meghan made more as part of an emsemble cast in a cable TV show filmed in Toronto for budget reasons?

By the company who produced it. And again it wasn’t about the fact of where it was filmed it was about the fact it was syndicated and so successful, and had seven seasons.

I know a few multi millionaires and the odd billionaire. Their female partners tend to fall into one of two categories - 1. devoted, loyal, loving partners of any variety of appearance or age, who have held on to their partners because they’ve born them their children, had their backs through ups and downs, kept their mouths shut, listened and listened and listened to them, and happily taken the second seat in the relationship. 2. Very attractive and young women.

AFAIK Meghan doesn’t tick any of those boxes. A billionaire would have to be deluded to be interested in her. She is everything they would run from. Trump was interested in Diana because his stepson would be King of England. Meghan can’t offer any such kudos.

Can you link to that?

The 'company' publicly released employees' salaries? Is that legal?

My point about it being filmed in Toronto is that this was obviously a budget conscious production. Which is why I find your claim that someone who was not the star was making more than the actual star of one of the most expensive TV shows ever.

I'll be interested to see your link to where the production company made this information public.

shenandoahvalley

The Twitter rumours of surrogacy and donor eggs

Good grief! How weird!

I don't do TwiX (as I've seen it called now), or any other SM beside MN, so I've not encountered those rumours.
Can't imagine them being allowed to stand here and it all seems pretty unlikely.

Feel a bit sorry for Harry now as his parentage was questioned as well (also mad because he's got King Charles' very close set eyes and looks more like him than William does, imo).

Sorry, realise it's old news - been doing one of my marathon catch-ups again.

I loathe it when people treat you like you’re their pa and can’t be arsed googling. And I’ve no idea why you come across as angry that markle was wealthy, I am not going to engage with you further. Her earnings are very well publicised. Google is your friend. I am not. Do not ask again.

https://www.sumissura.com/en-uk/blog/suits-actors-characters-salary

@12FreeRangeEggs

what you say, makes sense of course.

No need for the snippy response. You made a specific claim and I asked you to support it. Isn't that the norm for online discussion?

And Google might be your friend but what you have linked to does not support your claim. It is not the actors' salaries, as published by the production company, which is what you claimed. It's simply an 'estimate' by some rag I've never heard of. Maybe she was earning that much. Maybe she wasn't. But what you've linked to is just speculation, kind of like the claims that Netflix 'paid' Meghan and Harry a 9 figure sum to pretend to be chased by a delivery man. I've seen lots of 'estimates' about what she was supposedly paid. But that's not the same as the production company making that information public.

As for being 'angry' about her being wealthy, honestly, I think you're just trying to deflect. I'm sure she was wealthy by normal standards. I'm not convinced she was worth several million, but she may have been. So what? As I said above, that's peanuts by Montecito standards. What exactly is there to be 'angry' about?

Meghan’s salary from her tiem on Suits may very well be estimatable from public sources. But that is (like for anyone!) only a part of the whole.

She will have had to pay taxes - possibly both in Canada and the US given she was a US citizen working in Canada while on Suits (the US taxes its citizens wherever in the world they earn money). There have been references to her having both an agent (Nick Collins at the Gersh Agency) and business manager (Andrew Meyer) while she was working Suits, plus she was apparently working with Sunshine Sachs to raise her profile. That could easily deduct another 25% from her earnings. She was also a client of Kruger-Cowne when she was looking to build her profile in the UK in the later seasons of Suits - they also would have been paid. Take all of these together and she could easily have only been receiving 50% of her rumoured income in the hand.

https://suits.fandom.com/wiki/Meghan_Markle

Having just googled the number of episodes Meghan appeared in, 108 total with 60 in seasons 1-4 at 35k an episode and 48 in seasons 5-7 at 50k.

Total gross income, presuming the figures are correct, is 4.5 million USD. If you’re correct Serenster about her seeing half, her net income over the circa 8 year period the show ran was therefore approximately 2.25 million or 281k a year.

That's really not a lot of money. She was hardly a millionaire. She hit the jackpot marrying into that family. She was really stupid to walk away so quickly. Of course I know there's more in life than money but I actually don't think M is a simple soul and likes the finer things in life.

I guess she will have earned some money from her blog and from endorsements, but I doubt it would have been in the millions. And again she'll have had to pay tax and other expenses out of that.

Also, if she hadn't met Harry it's probably unlikely she'd have earned similar money again. None of her costars in 'Suits' have become big names, and they were better actors than her. So that money would have had to last her a long time. But then she met Harry.

Rupert is currently unmarried, and his last wife is older than Megs....

Murdoch? He’s 93.

Did Murdoch not get engaged recently ?

Indeed .
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/media/rupert-murdoch-engaged-elena-zhukova.html

Was just about to quote that. He also got engaged in 2023 to someone else! Nuptials for this one in June apparently…

I loathe it when people link to a purely speculative article and cite it as fact.

Yes I know, but ten or twenty years in the future maybe! Not to Murdoch himself, just someone of that type .