Friday, November 7, 2026 - Thomas Markle, Sr., the estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has reportedly been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Florida
Markle was arrested at Maravida Senior Living, a specialized
elderly care facility in North Lakeland, Florida, over his alleged possession
of child pornography, the Daily Mail reported Friday, November 6.
The arrest comes in the wake of allegations of child
pornography possession and child sexual abuse against Thomas Sr. He previously
acknowledged to the Mail on Sunday that he paid for sex with adult women
in the Philippines, but he denied ever having sex with anyone under the age of
18 or possessing child sexual abuse material.
Thomas Sr.’s son, Meghan’s half-brother Thomas Markle Jr.,
reported his father to authorities after he claimed to have discovered child
pornographic material at his father’s home in the Philippines. (Thomas Jr. was
recently named a “person of interest,” according to authorities in the
Philippines.)
Police in the Philippines alleged during a Nov. 3 press
conference that child sex abuse images were found in Thomas Sr.’s home as they
searched through computers, phones, and storage devices located at the Cebu
City home, according to The Times.
Additionally, Mexican authorities reportedly raided Thomas
Sr.’s former storage unit in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, over the weekend after The
Daily Mail claimed to have found explicit photographs and magazines
featuring young girls in the abandoned unit.
His arrest follows reports by The Sun, a British tabloid
newspaper, that Meghan’s brother found a collection of child sexual abuse
images while clearing out the home of their father in the Philippines.
Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, recently said she
was “deeply distressed” by allegations that a collection of child sexual abuse
images had been found at her father’s former home. She also revealed that a
letter containing “troubling allegations” about him had been sent to London
police in 2018.
“It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my
father, and I was given assurances that these were being investigated,” Meghan
said of the letter. “I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain
media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and
my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children was for one
reason: to protect them.”
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