After two days of testimony by the rapper, the civil lawsuit filed by Beverly Hills security officers against her was sometimes colorful, and the jurors’ laughter caused laughter.
Emani Ellis sued Cardi B for $24 million, accusing her of being beaten, assaulted and intentionally causing emotional distress in the aftermath of a confrontation after the confrontation. Ellis claimed that during the setting period, the rapper stretched out her with long nails, leaving facial scars.
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More than an hour of deliberation.
“I swear to God that I will say on my deathbed that I didn’t meet that woman,” Cardi B said outside the court after the trial. She added that she missed her first day with the child due to the civil trial.
“I want to thank my lawyer, I want to thank the jurors, I want to thank the judges, I want to thank the respected media,” she said.
Cardi B’s real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, who testified that she had never touched, scratched or spitted, and that she thought she was shooting her video on her phone. The rapper was four months pregnant and made an appointment on the day of the incident (February 24, 2018).
Ellis, who worked as a security guard at the Beverly Hills building, where Cardi B appointed medical treatment, testified that she was doing her own tour when she saw the celebrity exit the elevator. She testified that she had overcome her with excitement and declared, “Wow, this is Cardi B.”
Ellis claimed the performer then turned to her and said, “Why F-You told people you’ve seen me?” Cardi B then accused her of trying to spread news about her in the doctor’s office, where she testified during the four-day trial.
Cardi B cursed her, used the N-word and other slander, called her name, threatened her work, humiliated her, and laughed at her career. She claimed Cardi B spit on her, swinged her, scratching her left cheek with her 2 to 3-inch nails.
But jurors believe in Cardi B’s version of the incident, That’s Ellis, the invader.
The rapper blew up the plaintiff in Alhambra court and said she was looking for payment. Cardi B said the two made breast-to-breast exchanges of angry words, but that’s all.
She told the juror that she told Ellis: “B-, get my face. Why are you on my face? Why are you recording me? Shouldn’t you be safe?”
“I was thinking about myself, ‘Girl is big!'” she testified. “She was wearing big black boots. I thought, ‘D-, am I going to do it now? ‘”
The rapper said she was 5-foot-3, weighed 130 pounds at the time of the incident and was pregnant. She said she would not try to fight the bigger guards.
When asked if she was “disabled” in the incident, Cardi B’s comments sparked laughter in court: “At that moment, when you were pregnant, I was very disabled.” “Do you want me to tell you something I can’t do?”
Tierra Malcolm, the receptionist for Dr. David Finke, was appointed Dr. David Finke that day, told jurors she saw Ellis Corner as a celebrity. The receptionist said, then she was between them, and the guard reached for the rapper. Malcolm said she ended up having her forehead cut.
Fink testified that he saw the guards because of injuries and hit the receptionist’s shoulder. He further said Ellis was not injured. Both testify that they have never seen Cardi B hit Ellis.
In the end of the debate on Tuesday, Ellis’ attorney Ron Rosen Janfaza told the jurors: “Cardi B needs to take responsibility.” He told the jurors: “There is no camera…so it really comes down to one thing – do you believe it, Ms. Ellis, a guard with a good record? She is a citizen of the model.”
He said Rosen Janfaza pointed out that under cross-examination, the rapper admitted that she and Ellis were breast-to-breast with the exchange of experts, and that’s all, an unwelcome touch and battery to customers. He told jurors that the receptionist and doctor could not see Cardi B marking his client’s fat for 40 to 50 seconds, spit and swing at her.
He said his client suffered seven years of suffering, “It was a violent attack.”
Cardis B’s attorney Peter Anderson said jurors need to use common sense to reject security staff stories, and a lot of evidence suggests his client was just yelling and cursing, “This is not something you can sue.”
“The question is whether Cardi hit the plaintiff,” Anderson said. He said there was evidence that she did not. Anderson said the guards testified that she never filed a police report, did not seek immediate medical care, and did not even use band-aids on scratches, but went home.
