Nairobi, September 3- A Los Angeles jury has cleared Cardi B of all charges in a high-profile civil lawsuit accusing her of attacking a security guard during a 2018 incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Grammy-winning rapper, who was facing a $24 million (Ksh3 billion) claim, was accused of scratching the guard\u2019s face with a long fingernail, spitting on her, and using racist and fatphobic slurs outside a private medical clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After about an hour of deliberation, the jury ruled in Cardi\u2019s favor, dismissing all five claims\u2014assault, battery, negligence, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case had been filed by Emani Ellis, a former guard at the OB-GYN clinic where Cardi, then four months pregnant, had gone for an appointment. Ellis insisted her lawsuit was about \u201caccountability\u201d rather than money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cardi, whose real name is Belcalis Alm\u00e1nzar, denied ever touching Ellis but admitted to shouting at her, saying the guard had invaded her privacy by filming her without consent and refusing to give her space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t lay my hands on that girl,\u201d Cardi said after the verdict, warning she would countersue anyone bringing \u201cfrivolous lawsuits\u201d in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medical staff at the clinic backed Cardi\u2019s account during the trial, which also made headlines for lighter moments, such as Cardi explaining wigs in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the jury\u2019s decision, Cardi emerges unapologetic and victorious, closing the chapter on a case that drew widespread public attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, September 3- A Los Angeles jury has cleared Cardi B of all charges in a high-profile civil lawsuit accusing her of attacking a security guard during a 2018 incident. The Grammy-winning rapper, who was facing a $24 million (Ksh3 billion) claim, was accused of scratching the guard\u2019s face with a long fingernail, spitting on her, and using racist and fatphobic slurs outside a private medical clinic. After about an hour of deliberation, the jury ruled in Cardi\u2019s favor, dismissing all five claims\u2014assault, battery, negligence, false imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The case had been filed by Emani Ellis, a former guard at the OB-GYN clinic where Cardi, then four months pregnant, had gone for an appointment. Ellis insisted her lawsuit was about \u201caccountability\u201d rather than money. Cardi, whose real name is Belcalis Alm\u00e1nzar, denied ever touching Ellis but admitted to shouting at her, saying the guard had invaded her privacy by filming her without consent and refusing to give her space. \u201cI didn\u2019t lay my hands on that girl,\u201d Cardi said after the verdict, warning she would countersue anyone bringing \u201cfrivolous lawsuits\u201d in the future. Medical staff at the clinic backed Cardi\u2019s account during the trial, which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}