The rapper Cardi B has beaten a lawsuit filed against her by three beachgoers who claimed they had been defamed during an altercation over parking.
A lawsuit filed in New York last year alleged that the singer’s sister, Hennessy Carolina, and Carolina’s girlfriend, Michelle Diaz, had blocked the plaintiffs in.
When one of the plaintiffs, Manuel Alarcon, who was wearing a Maga hat, approached Diaz, Carolina started filming, the suit said. The plaintiffs accused her of using “foul and threatening language and defamatory statements” and spraying “copious spittle upon said plaintiffs as she raged”.
The plaintiffs accused Carolina of using intimidating language, calling the group “racist Maga supporters”.
Cardi B, who last week became the first female rapper with multiple songs surpassing 10m sales, tweeted video of the altercation, claiming her sister was targeted because she is Afro-Hispanic and gay.
A New York trial judge dismissed the case, saying Carolina’s insults did not rise to the level of defamation. The legal win comes two months after Cardi B was award $1.25m in damages in a defamation action against the gossip blogger Tasha K.
