Coleman Rayner paid for the pics. Coleman Rayner and TMZ are two different organizations.
But the really sad part of this is that most of the royal reporters seem to think that money is not the primary motivator for Meghan’s family. They wanted to be acknowledged. They wanted ‘human contact. They wanted respect. They were resentful because Meghan was discarding them.
That’s very sad. I think that is, in many ways, worse for Meghan than her family doing it for money. Meghan could have stopped all of this with a few phone calls and a couple of conditional invitations. She just didn’t want anything to to with them