Bad Bunny’s ex-spouse is suing him for $40 million for using his voice on two songs.
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According to court documents obtained by Billboard magazine, Carliz De La Cruz Hernández has filed a lawsuit in Puerto Rico, alleging that the singer used a voice memo she sent him in two of her songs in 2015 without her consent.
The voice memo in which she says “Bad Bunny, Baby” first appeared in 2016’s song Pa’ Ti and then in 2022’s Dos Mil 16.
Carliz De La Cruz Hernández said in her filing that she recorded the phrase through her phone’s voice memo app at the singer’s request.
She insists she hasn’t given Bad Bunny – real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – legal permission to use it in her music.
The complaint also states that the memos were used without naming them. In the documents, Carliz De La Cruz Hernández claims that Bad Bunny representatives sent him a contract in May 2022, a day before the release of the album, which contained Dos Mil 16, in order to obtain permission to use the recording of his vocals, but the album was released without permission with Dos Mil 16 on the track listing.
Among other things, she is suing the rapper, his manager Noah Kamil Assad Byrne and Rimas Entertainment for damages of at least $40 million
The couple reportedly dated between 2011 and 2017.