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Cardi B awarded $1.25 million in libel lawsuit against blogger Latasha K
Cardi B emerged victorious in her federal libel lawsuit against Latasha K on Monday.The 29-year-old rapper was awarded $1 million in general damages by a jury in Georgia, along with an additional $250,000 that the 39-year-old blogger will be required to pay for medical expenses, TMZ reported on Monday.She was sued by the hitmaker for defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress after claiming in videos posted to her YouTube channel that Cardi had once worked as a prostitute and had suffered from drug abuse and sexually transmitted diseases. Legal victory: Cardi B, 29, was awarded $1.25 million on Monday in her libel suit against blogger Latasha K, who falsely claimed she was a prostitute and drug addict; seen December 7, 2021 in Santa MonicaThe trial took a just over a week before a jury found Latasha K (real name: Latasha Kebe) liable on three counts.Cardi (given name:Belcalis Almánzar) sued the YouTuber back in 2019 for a 'campaign of slander' after she refused to take down the offending videos.
