Cardi B refuses to let her nemesis Tasha Ok. wiggle out of a $3.8 million verdict for defamation.
Earlier at the moment (October twenty eighth), the rap star’s authorized crew requested the eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals to uphold the huge verdict in opposition to the YouTuber.
In January, a jury awarded Cardi a large judgment after discovering Tasha Ok. answerable for claiming Cardi was a former prostitute with HPV and herpes.
Jurors discovered that Tasha Ok. defamed the rapper, invaded her privateness, and deliberately inflicted emotional misery on Cardi B along with her lies. Tasha Ok. has been making an attempt to enchantment the decision to have the judgment decreased or overturned.
Within the meantime, a choose dominated that Tasha Ok should put up $3.8 million within the type of what’s often known as a Supersedeas bond to make sure Cardi would get the total judgment If Tasha Ok. loses the enchantment – which appears probably.
Based on Cardi’s newest authorized submitting, the “wicked” vlogger has no likelihood of profitable the enchantment, based on Tasha’s assertion that essential proof was excluded.
“The totality of proof was greater than enough for the jury to search out that [Tasha K.’s] conduct was not merely vulgar, tasteless, impolite, or insulting. Quite, their unrelenting and self-described ‘marketing campaign’ was motivated solely by greed and spite and was so abusive and obscene that any cheap individual would discover that [Cardi B’s] intense emotions of humiliation, embarrassment, disgrace, and outrage had been the pure results of [Tasha K.s] conduct,” Cardi B’s lawyer W. Andrew Pequignot defined.
In September 2020, Tasha admitted she knew the allegations that Cardi cheated on Offset whereas spreading HPV had been faux, however she continued to publish blatant lies anyway.
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“[Tasha K.] is within the enterprise of spreading salacious rumors about celebrities for revenue. Of their phrases, they ‘promote drama,’ and they don’t let the reality get in the way in which of placing out a narrative that may become profitable for them. Kebe admitted that she wouldn’t hesitate to publish a knowingly false story if it could appeal to viewers,” Pequignot mentioned.
Tasha Ok.’s personal statements current the most important problem to profitable her enchantment. As an illustration, she hopped on an IG reside and admitted she was publishing bogus tales about Cardi B.
“I knew it was faux, and guess what, as a result of I knew it was m############ faux, I nonetheless made that s### go viral, I nonetheless made it go viral, you dumb ho, and it does nothing to my credibility in any respect,” Tasha Ok. mentioned in a video that was launched as proof in opposition to her.
Cardi and her attorneys mentioned Tasha Ok.’s habits grew extra excessive after the lawsuit was filed, and he or she launched into an ill-fated vendetta to take down the rap star by utilizing hashtags like #herpesB in an try to go viral to trigger most injury and embarrassment.
Cardi’s lawyer mentioned Tasha Ok.’s conduct has been “patently outrageous and wicked” and that her habits and statements had been “repugnant.”
The rapper and her authorized crew need the Appeals Courtroom to affirm the decision.
