Mariah Carey gets defamation lawsuit filed by her brother cut back, but not dismissed

completemusicupdate.com:

A New York judge has significantly cut back a defamation lawsuit filed against Mariah Carey by her brother in relation to the star’s 2020 memoir ‘The Meaning Of Mariah Carey’.

However, his defamation claim in relation to allegations he sold drugs at New York clubs in the 1980s will be allowed to proceed.Both of Carey’s siblings – Alison and Morgan – sued their sister over claims she made about them in her 2020 book.

Morgan took particular issue with nine passages in the memoir which, he said, damaged his reputation and, in the process, caused a movie producer to abandon plans to adapt a screenplay he had written.Judge Barbara Jaffe rejected most of Morgan’s defamation claims earlier this week.

She concluded that passages relating to alleged drunken and violent conduct on Morgan’s part, and his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot, as well as a section about time he spent in a psychiatric hospital as a child, did not sufficiently rise to the level of defamation under New York law.However, implications that Morgan had been a drug dealer did.