Cardi B Up Over $4 Million After Winning Defamation Case Against YouTuber LaTasha Kebe

Cardi B gained her libel case in opposition to YouTuber LaTasha Kebe and was awarded a complete of $4.05 million in damages. On Monday, a choose sided with the 29-year-old rapper on claims of defamation, invasion of privateness, and intentional infliction of emotional misery, in line with court docket paperwork obtained by Rolling Stone. Her ruling resulted within the award of $1 million for “ache and struggling and/or reputational harm” and $250,000 for medical bills, per the outlet. Billboard later reported on Tuesday that the jurors concerned within the trial elevated Cardi’s award by $3 million, together with $1.5 million in punitive damages. It was additionally ordered that Kebe pay the rapper $1.3 million for her authorized bills.

The Invasion of Privateness rapper filed her lawsuit in opposition to Kebe, identified on YouTube as unWinewithTashaK, on March 19 after the web character allegedly accused her of: being a prostitute; utilizing cocaine; dishonest on her husband, Offset; and contracting numerous STDs, in line with Folks Journal. The outlet additionally revealed Cardi B alleged Kebe made feedback whereas she was pregnant together with her now-3-year-old daughter, Kulture, that the kid can be born with particular wants.

Throughout Cardi’s two-week trial, she instructed the courtroom she felt “extraordinarily suicidal” and “helpless” resulting from Kebe’s movies, Billboard reported. The blogger posted not less than 38 movies concerning the rapper, in line with the lawsuit obtained Folks Journal.

Following the ruling in Cardi’s favor, she tweeted, “Why am I pleased however unhappy on the identical time?” In a press release to Billboard on Tuesday, she mentioned: “The reality is that the intentional hurt that was achieved to me, is finished to numerous others day-after-day. The one distinction between me and the excessive schooler who’s being cyberbullied and lied on by their classmates is the cash and assets I’ve entry to.” She added, “We collectively need to say sufficient is sufficient.”