{"id":21228,"date":"2025-09-03T02:34:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/09\/03\/cardi-b-was-not-liable-in-a-lawsuit-of-24-million-us-dollars\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:34:32","slug":"cardi-b-was-not-liable-in-a-lawsuit-of-24-million-us-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/09\/03\/cardi-b-was-not-liable-in-a-lawsuit-of-24-million-us-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B was not liable in a lawsuit of 24 million US dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction to the Case<\/h2>\n<p>A jury in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Cardi B, dismissing a lawsuit filed by a security guard who claimed the rapper attacked her in 2018. The guard, Emani Ellis, had originally sued Cardi B for $24 million.<\/p>\n<h2>The Alleged Attack<\/h2>\n<p>Ellis claimed that Cardi B cut her face with her fingernail outside a doctor&#8217;s office in 2018. However, Cardi B maintained that Ellis had been following and filming her without permission, leading to a heated argument. Cardi B was pregnant at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<h2>The Trial<\/h2>\n<p>During the trial, Ellis&#8217; lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, claimed that Cardi B had attacked Ellis, spitting on her and using racist language. However, Ellis had dropped some of her claims, including the $24 million in damages, and was seeking compensation for her medical expenses and $250,000.<\/p>\n<h2>Testimony<\/h2>\n<p>Both Cardi B and Ellis testified during the trial. Ellis claimed that she had called out to Cardi B when she saw her in the doctor&#8217;s office, but had not spoken to anyone on the phone or recorded Cardi B. Cardi B, on the other hand, accused Ellis of &quot;penetrating&quot; her privacy and claimed that the verbal argument that ensued did not involve physical contact.<\/p>\n<h2>The Verdict<\/h2>\n<p>The jury ultimately ruled in favor of Cardi B, dismissing the lawsuit. After the verdict was announced, Cardi B spoke to the press outside the court building, stating that it had been &quot;really difficult&quot; to deal with the lawsuit during the rollout of her new album. She also warned that she would counter-sue anyone who tried to file a &quot;careless&quot; lawsuit against her in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>Moving Forward<\/h2>\n<p>Cardi B is set to release her second album, &quot;Am I The Drama?&quot; The rapper has been open about the challenges she faced during the trial, including missing her children&#8217;s first day of school. Despite the difficulties, Cardi B has emerged victorious and is ready to move forward with her music career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to the Case A jury in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Cardi B, dismissing a lawsuit filed by a security guard who claimed the rapper attacked her in 2018. The guard, Emani Ellis, had originally sued Cardi B for $24 million. The Alleged Attack Ellis claimed that Cardi B cut her face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3952,5039,505,5038,416,1565],"class_list":{"0":"post-21228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cardi-b","9":"tag-damages","10":"tag-lawsuit","11":"tag-lawyer-ron","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-rapping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21230,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions\/21230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}