Cardi B has emerged triumphant in Los Angeles after being found not liable for assault and battery in a civil case against her.
On Tuesday, a unanimous jury decided against requiring the “WAP” rapper to pay any damages in the $24 million case brought by a former security guard.
According to TMZ, the mom of three — who was accused of spitting on and using racial slurs against Emani Ellis in a 2018 alleged incident — plans to countersue following the verdict.
Cardi B, 32, denied a physical altercation during testimony last week, citing her pregnant condition and Ellis’ size.
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She counterclaimed that she and Ellis verbally sparred after the security guard violated her privacy by recording her during a doctor’s visit while she was pregnant with her first child, Kulture.
In a dramatic claim, Ellis alleged that the rapper had injured her cheek after striking her with her fingernail — though a doctor at the rapper’s Beverly Hill’s OB-GYN office testified they did not witness her striking the guard.
Ellis first brought the lawsuit against Cardi B in 2020.
A rep for the “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
Earlier in the day, Cardi B lashed out by throwing a marker at a paparazzo who questioned her about pregnancy rumors allegedly circulated by estranged husband Offset, as she exited the Los Angeles courtroom.
After hurling the marker — which she snatched from a fan with an outstretched arm — the rapper reprimanded the photographer for showing “disrespect.”
“Do you see women asking those type of questions to me?” she asked in part, while wagging her finger at the paparazzo. “Why do you feel as a man, you get to ask me those type of questions?”
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