Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B was discovered not liable in a $24 million civil assault lawsuit filed by a former safety guard.
• The jury reached a verdict in underneath an hour, siding with Cardi’s declare that no bodily contact occurred.
• The case highlights how celebrities are sometimes focused with lawsuits throughout susceptible moments, comparable to being pregnant.

Cardi B stays undefeated in 2025 — even in court docket. Tuesday (Sept. 2), a Los Angeles jury dominated in her favor after being accused of assault in a $24 million lawsuit filed by a safety guard.

Jurors deliberated for lower than an hour earlier than clearing the “Outside” artist of all legal responsibility. The guard, Emani Ellis, claimed Cardi scratched her face with a fingernail and spat on her within the hallway of a Beverly Hills OB-GYN workplace in February 2018. According to music/music-news/cardi-b-trial-closing-arguments-1235419754/”>Rolling Stone, each side agreed the altercation unfolded after Ellis tried to movie Cardi, who on the time was secretly pregnant along with her first youngster with Offset.

“I will say it on my deathbed: I did not touch that woman. I did not touch that girl. I didn’t lay my hands on that girl,” the Grammy-winning rapper advised reporters exterior the courthouse. She additionally sent a stern warning to anybody considering of submitting one other “frivolous lawsuit” towards her, vowing to reply with a countersuit.

“I’m gonna make you pay, because this is not OK,” she continued. “I am not that celeb that you sue, and you think [is] going to settle. I’m not gonna settle. Especially when I’m super completely innocent. I know I got a little reputation, but I swear to God, I’m innocent. I swear to God. Like, I’m really innocent for real.”

In her preliminary submitting, Ellis painted a a lot darker image of the confrontation. She accused Cardi of physically attacking her, spitting on her, and throwing out “racial slurs.” She additionally claimed the conflict — together with the musician’s “celebrity status” — price her her job. It’s necessary to level out that Ellis finally dropped her preliminary $24 million declare and as a substitute requested compensation for medical bills plus $250,000.

Cardi, in the meantime, on the stand described the confrontation as nothing greater than a screaming match. She recalled yelling, “B**ch, get the f**k out of my face,” earlier than shutting down any suggestion of assault. “She didn’t hit me. I didn’t hit her. There was no touch,” the rapper testified.

As Cardi identified, the trial couldn’t have come at a extra inconvenient time. She missed her children’ first day of college attributable to court docket and joked that her brow was left feeling “raw, raw, raw” after a number of wig modifications all through the proceedings. As if that wasn’t tense sufficient, she’s proper in the course of rolling out her new album, AM I THE DRAMA?

Speaking of the extremely anticipated sophomore launch, Cardi handled followers to a snippet of latest music. She previewed a observe tentatively titled “Bodega Baddie,” which could discover its approach onto the upcoming venture.