Cardi B has claimed victory in her defamation lawsuit after it was dismissed by a judge.
The rapper, 29, had been sued after her sister Hennessy Carolina clashed with a man wearing a MAGA hat [Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan] and two others in an incident the star was not present for.
It started in September 2020 in the Hamptons, New York, when Hennessy and her friends headed to Smith Point Beach and got into an argument with two men and a woman over where they'd parked their car.
She filmed an argument with them, during which she and the woman swore at each other and told the other to "shut up".
The three people claimed that Hennessy spat on one of them and engaged in insulting and threatening behaviour.
The lawsuit also claimed that Hennessy called the group "racist MAGA supporters" and that the term "racist" was defamatory.
Cardi wasn't there but later tweeted the video, claiming her sister and her friends had been targeted because they were Afro-Hispanic and gay.
The three beachgoers sued for defamation as well as assault and battery, but a New York trial judge has dismissed the case, TMZ reports.
The judge said the insults were all just general and did not rise to the level of defamation.
The alleged spitting was the basis for the assault and battery claim, but the judge said that even if Hennessy did spit, there was no proof that she intended to target any of the plaintiffs.
And the judge noted that the plaintiffs had never even alleged that was Hennessy's intent.
Meanwhile, Cardi recently gave fans a tiny glimpse of her six-month-old son but told them that "that's all you get".
She's kept the son she shares with rapper husband Offset, 30, out of public sight, but recently shared a close-up picture of the little one's eye, complete with gorgeous long eyelashes.
"That's all y'all will get," she captioned it, referencing fans' requests for a picture of her son.
The couple have however happily shared pictures of their daughter Kulture over the years.
