Mary J. Blige won a victory in court docket with the dismissal of a lawsuit filed in opposition to her by Misa Hylton.

In the $5 million lawsuit that Hylton filed in April 2025, she accused Blige of making an attempt to ‘coerce’ rapper Vado into terminating his administration settlement.”

​Hylton additionally alleged that Blige “wanted to sign Vado – with her company, Beautiful Life Productions”, and “sabotaged” her skilled relationship with the rapper. 

Blige accusded Hylton of harrassing her in July 2025. She additionally desribed the lawsuit as “frivolous.”

​On Tuesday, Judge Phaedra F. Perry-Bond granted a movement to dismiss the case in New York City, in line with Billboard.

​Perry-Bond mentioned that  Hylton by no means responded to Blige’s request to dismiss, which led to the case being dropped.

​”The court docket on no account condones events submitting lawsuits claiming hundreds of thousands in damages based mostly on inflammatory accusations, solely to have these exact same events abandon their allegations when confronted with a movement to dismiss and sanctions,” Perry-Bond wrote.

​Perry-Bond did “decline Blige’s request to penalize Hylton for filing the case.” The utility may be revived at a later date.

​”Plaintiffs and their counsel shall contemplate this a warning to chorus from partaking in comparable patterns of conduct sooner or later,” she added. “This written warning may serve as weighty evidence on a future application for sanctions if plaintiffs and/or their counsel continue to engage in similar bad faith litigation tactics.”

​Nicholas Ramcharitar, Hylton’s legal professional, spoke about why his shopper determined to forego the lawsuit. She obtained threats after testifying throughout Diddy’s sex trafficking trial final yr. Hylton and Diddy dated within the early ’90s and share a son Justin Combs.

​”We don’t at any level take frivolously the submitting of any matter frivolously. Especially with the claims set forth on this prior go well with,” Ramcharitar mentioned.

Before the lawsuits, Blige and Hylton had been mates for nearly 40 years. Hylton is credited with curating Blige’s iconic trend type.