ANOTHER SPLIT

Meghan Markle’s Ex-Best Friend Splits From Husband

The public controversy that some speculate caused a rift between her and the Duchess of Sussex may have also strained her marriage.

Fashion stylist Jessica Mulroney, known to have been among Meghan Markle’s closest friends, has split from her husband of 16 years. Page Six reports that Mulroney, 45, has been separated for “some time” from husband Ben Mulroney, 49, the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Just last November, they forgot their anniversary, they later admitted. It has been a bumpy road for Mulroney since she entered a public spat with Sasha Exeter, a Black lifestyle influencer, in 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests. Exeter alleged Mulroney had cyberbullied her, which Mulroney denies, and that Mulroney displayed “textbook white privilege.” In the fallout, Mulroney lost her TV and business deals. Her husband also resigned as host of the show etalk. The fiasco prompted Ben’s prominent family to do an intervention because “she was damaging the Mulroney brand,” Page Six reports. Since the incident, Mulroney and Meghan Markle, who had been close ever since they met in 2011, have not been seen together, and Markle has not invited Mulroney to join her recent projects. Mulroney was just 14 and Ben was 17 when they met. The couple share 14-year-old twins, Brian and John, and a 12-year-old daughter, Isabel (also known as Ivy).