Cardi B wins defamation case against YouTuber

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Cardi B has won her defamation action against YouTuber Latasha Kebe. This isn’t surprising given that Kebe basically admitted in court that she didn’t fact check the allegations she made against the rapper and that she suspected the woman behind many of those claims was a liar.

She posted all those allegations anyway, she admitted, because they generated traffic to her YouTube channel and therefore revenue.Cardi B – real name Belcalis Almanzar – sued Kebe back in March 2019 in relation to various videos the YouTuber posted to her unWinewithTashaK channel which, the rapper claimed, included defamatory statements.

Among other things, Kebe said Almanzar “was a prostitute … was a user of cocaine … had and still has herpes … had and still has HPV … engaged in a debasing act with a beer bottle and … committed infidelity”.When fighting efforts by Almanzar to get a summary judgement in her favour, Kebe successfully argued that there was a “genuine dispute of material fact” as to whether the allegations she had made about the rapper were, in fact, “false and defamatory”.

That was in part due to comments previously made by Almanzar herself that possibly suggested some of the claims were true.The YouTuber’s lawyers again presented that argument once the case was before a jury this month, with one legal rep noting in her concluding statement last week that “the plaintiff has built her entire career using the persona of an extremely promiscuous person”.Kebe’s team also stressed that other women had made allegations against Almanzar – including that the rapper had herpes – before their client talked about such things on her YouTube channel.