Cardi B has another legal victory under her belt.
The rapper and her sister, reality star Hennessy Carolina, just beat a defamation case brought against them by three people who got into a confrontation with Carolina at The Hamptons in September 2020, TMZ reports.
According to the lawsuit filed by Billboard in Suffolk County at the time, the three plaintiffs alleged that Carolina and her friends parked and blocked one of their vehicles. When the plaintiff, wearing a MAGA hat, approached the driver — Carolina’s girlfriend — Carolina began filming the altercation and allegedly began “yelling abusive and threatening language and defamatory statements.”
The trio claimed the “Love & Hip Hop” grad accused them of being “racist MAGA supporters” and specifically took issue with being called racists on camera.
Carolina has been sued after she called three beachgoers “racist MAGA supporters.” Gilbert Carrasquillo
They also claimed Carolina and Cardi — who shared the footage online and believed their sister was targeted as a gay Afro-Latina woman — edited the clips “to remove portions of it, thereby laying the plaintiffs in a false light.” Keeping light tends to expose, and indeed expose, every plaintiff to public contempt, ridicule, shame and harm.”
Cardi B and Hennessy Carolina just beat their defamation lawsuit. WireImage
However, a New York trial judge dismissed the defamation, assault and battery case, saying the insults hurled by Carolina were too general and did not reach the level of defamation.
The win comes two months after Cardi won her own defamation lawsuit against gossip blogger Tasha K, with a Georgia jury awarding the “Be Careful” artist $1.25 million in damages after two weeks of deliberation.