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Cardi B gets awarded additional $2.8M in damages after winning federal libel lawsuit against blogger
Cardi B was awarded an additional $2.8 million on Tuesday by a jury after winning her federal libel case against blogger Tasha K.The 29-year-old rapper was awarded an additional $1.5 million in punitive damages, plus $1.3 million for her attorney's fees, according to an article Tuesday by TMZ.A jury on Monday found Tasha K, real name Latasha Kebe, liable on two counts of slander and one count each of libel and invasion of privacy. Additional awards: Cardi B,shown last month in Santa Monica, California,was awarded an additional $2.8 million on Tuesday by a jury after winning her federal libel case against blogger Tasha K Cardi, real name Belcalis Almánzar, was awarded $1 million in general damages by the jury in Georgia on Monday, along with an additional $250,000 for medical expenses.The 39-year-old blogger 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.