Editor’s note: Story was updated to clarify attribution of quotes and add additional context.
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(NewsNation) — Eagle-eyed fashion observers almost fell out of their chairs this week when Meghan’s preview for her Netflix holiday segment dropped.
During a portion of the video promoting her “With Love, Meghan” Christmas special, Prince Harry’s wife was seen wearing a gorgeous green Galvan “Ushuaia” one-shouldered gown … which looked very familiar.
The gown is the exact same one she wore in Variety’s 2022 Instagram Reel promoting the Duchess as its cover subject.
Unfortunately, after appearing in the video, Meghan was then accused of pilfering several items from an anonymous photo shoot … again.
Meghan theft allegations
In an appearance on Andrew Gold’s “Heretics” podcast last year titled, “Exclusive: Meghan Markle New Stealing Allegations,” veteran journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis, whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Vanity Fair, described how several items of clothing that had been pulled for Meghan during a photo shoot allegedly went missing — and not for the first time.
Grigoriadis started out talking with Gold about a 2016 shoot where things allegedly went missing — items that they say later showed up in press photographs.
“People who are into deep cuts of Meghan may have noticed that back in the day, Tom Bower reported that at a Reitman’s shoot, Meghan was doing the shoot and everything was fine,” Grigoriadis said.
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, in “With Love, Meghan” on Netflix. (Netflix) 
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, participates in The Archewell Foundation Parents’ Summit “Mental Wellness in the Digital Age” as part of Project Healthy Minds’ World Mental Health Day Festival on Oct. 10, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) 
FILE – Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex, appears at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York, on Sept. 23, 2021. The first podcast from Prince Harry and Meghan’s partnership with Spotify will focus on harmful labels and stereotypes applied to women. The “Archetypes” podcast will be hosted by Meghan and is expected to launch this summer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) 
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrives at Variety’s Power of Women on Nov. 16, 2023, at Mother Wolf in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) 
FILE – Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, arrives at the Invictus Games venue in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, April 15, 2022. Meghan will be in New York Tuesday, May 16, 2023, along with Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown, to receive the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award, as the nation’s oldest women’s foundation marks its 50th anniversary. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) 
PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 05: Meghan Markle is seen during the Womenswear Spring Summer 2026 as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 05, 2025 in Paris, France. (Photo by Andrea Cremascoli/Getty Images)
Reitman is a Canadian clothing store for Meghan did a campaign for before she married Harry. In Tom Bower’s book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors,” he claims Meghan left the set of a 2016 ad shoot for Reitmans with wardrobe items — specifically mentioning she “forgot to leave behind the Aquazzura shoes” used for the campaign, shoes that later showed up on the official photo of her engagement announcement to Harry a year later.
”The photo shoots, the celebrities or the important person are never supposed to take the clothes that they’re actually wearing in the shoot home, right?” Grigoriadis continued.
“Those clothes are being lent by top designers of the world, perhaps jewelry. Jewelry is incredibly expensive, right? The kind of jewelry that celebrities wear on the red carpet is, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
“And (Bower) reported that Meghan, at the end of that shoot, the crew that was there was sort of surprised because she had some high-heeled shoes on that no longer seemed to be in the room for the shoot, right?”
“Sticky fingers at the end of a photoshoot is not unheard of,” Grigoriadis said before alleging Meghan had committed the same sin again.
“Recently, that’s happening again. And I think that’s what might be most surprising to people because she’s now somebody who’s now, I mean, I can’t remember the exact figures, but what was it? $100 million for the Netflix documentary, $20 million for Spotify, despite having done pretty much no work, being called effing grifters for the work that they did in that,” Gold said.
“You would think that this is somebody who now has a reputation to uphold and doesn’t need the money, but she’s been stealing stuff,” Gold continued.
Meghan’s rep didn’t return emails about the Galvan gown — and whether or not Meghan took it (unpaid) from the Variety shoot.
However, a source close to Meghan said she didn’t take the dresses and that retaining select items worn by the Duchess is standard practice.
But the allegation could explain why many magazines are not rushing to work with her.
As Gold explained:“It’s that [Markle’s] trying to pretend she’s some sort of heroic, worthy, charity-giving, feminist, whatever, when actually she’s the diva, money-grabbing, stealing person, who we might admire if they weren’t just pretending they’re something else.”
While Meghan is on the cover of the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar, we’re sure everything was returned … under the eagle eye of the stylists on set.