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Originally Posted by jet

The articles that I read always added: Mr. Markle was not paid for this Interview.
How do you know if he was?

Him and a photographer staged photographs that were sold to the global press for a 6-figure sum. There's no "proof" that he got a slice of that/was paid in advance by said photographer, but you'd have to be pretty naive to not think it likely.

edit: to add to that, I can't find many that state he was NOT paid for comments and interviews, only reports that say it is "unknown" whether or not he was given financial incentive. There's no rules on having to disclose it. Though for press transparency there probably SHOULD be.