{"id":765602,"date":"2022-01-25T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/cardi-b-wins-1m-defamation-suit-against-gossip-blogger-tasha-k\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:48:01","slug":"cardi-b-wins-1m-defamation-suit-against-gossip-blogger-tasha-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/cardi-b-wins-1m-defamation-suit-against-gossip-blogger-tasha-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Wins $1M Defamation Suit Against Gossip Blogger Tasha K"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A staggering $1.25 million in damages has been awarded to musician, Cardi B\u00a0against Latasha Kebe, a blogger and YouTuber known online as Tasha K for defamation.<\/p>\n

The jury\u2019s January 24 verdict concluded a two-week federal trial during which Cardi B testified that she had experienced extreme anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation due to Kebe\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

Cardi took Kebe to court in 2019 over dozens of videos featuring wild allegations, among which was the high- (or low-)light that the rapper B \u201cf\u2013ked herself with beer bottles\u201d onstage when she was working as a stripper. Kebe also claimed that Cardi had prostituted herself, was addicted to hard drugs, was unfaithful to her husband Offset, and had contracted herpes.<\/p>\n

Cardi testified last week that she felt\u00a0\u201cextremely suicidal\u201d<\/em>\u00a0over Kebe\u2019s claims.\u00a0\u201cI felt defeated and depressed and I didn\u2019t want to sleep with my husband,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she added, chalking up fatigue, weight loss, migraines and anxiety to the ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly an evil person could do that s\u2013t,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Cardi reportedly said, subsequently apologizing to the court for her language.<\/p>\n

The rapper also disclosed that the herpes rumor in particular dogged her online, as some of Kebe\u2019s million-plus followers harassed her over pictures of her kissing daughter Kulture on the lips and called her \u201cHerpes B.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kebe reportedly admitted in court that she had knowingly published lies about the rapper, but attempted to walk that statement back when her attorneys examined her. Ultimately, jurors sided with Cardi B on all three claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n

They allotted $1 million for\u00a0\u201cgeneral damages (pain and suffering and\/or reputational injury)\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and $250,000 for medical expenses. Tuesday proceedings will determine whether Tasha K will also owe more punitive damages or need to pay for Cardi B\u2019s legal expenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A staggering $1.25 million in damages has been awarded to musician, Cardi B\u00a0against Latasha Kebe, a blogger and YouTuber known online as Tasha K for defamation. The jury\u2019s January 24 verdict concluded a two-week federal trial during which Cardi B testified that she had experienced extreme anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation due to Kebe\u2019s claims. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1503,3094,1003,3095,3096,3097,1000],"class_list":["post-765602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-blogger","tag-cardi","tag-defamation","tag-gossip","tag-suit","tag-tasha","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}