Cardi B Wins 2020 Defamation Suit After Sister Hennessy Called MAGA Supporters Racist

Long Islanders Sue Rapper Cardi B, Sister Over Beach Confrontation Video (September 2020)

According to TMZ, the rapper and her sister, reality star Hennessy Carolina, recently won a defamation suit filed against them by three individuals who got into an argument with Carolina in The Hamptons in September 2020.

The 3 plaintiffs alleged Carolina and her companions decided to park and blocked one of their vehicles, according to a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County at the time and acquired by Billboard. When the plaintiff wearing a MAGA ball cap approached the driver — Carolina’s girlfriend — Carolina started filming the quarrel and reportedly began “shouting foul and threatening language and defamatory statements.”

According to the trio, the “Love & Hip Hop” alum accused the individuals of just being “racist MAGA supporters,” taking issue with being branded as racists on-camera.

They also attempted to claim Carolina and Cardi B, who decided to share the video online after believing her sister was just being targeted because she was gay and Afro-Latina edited the videos “to remove portions thereof, and thereby hold plaintiffs in a false light, so as to tend to expose and in fact expose each plaintiff to public contempt, ridicule and disgrace and harm.”

A New York trial judge, on the other hand, rejected the defamation, assault, and battery case, stating that Carolina’s epithets were too general to be considered defamation.

Cardi’s victory comes 2 months after she managed to win her own defamation lawsuit against celebrity news blogger Tasha K, with a Georgia jury awarding the “WAP” performer $1.25 million in damages after two weeks of deliberation.

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