Cardi B cleared of assaulting security guard in LA trial

ALHAMBRA – A jury has found Cardi B not liable for assault in a lawsuit brought by a security guard who alleged the then-pregnant rapper attacked her at a medical office in 2018.

The Alhambra Superior Court jury Tuesday rejected plaintiff Emani Ellis’ story that the then-pregnant singer accosted her outside a Beverly Hills OB-GYN office on Wilshire Boulevard on Feb. 24, 2018. Ellis worked as a security guard there.

The Black plaintiff alleged that Cardi B, who also is Black, shouted racial slurs, spat on her and used her long fingernails to cut her  face.

In often colorful testimony, Cardi B, now 32, contended that Ellis was the aggressor and that the plaintiff was trying to record her with her
phone as she entered the doctor’s office while visibly pregnant, a condition the performer had not yet revealed to the public.

“At the time, (Cardi B) was roughly four months pregnant with her first child and had taken great care to keep her pregnancy private and away from the scrutiny of tabloids and critics,” according to her attorneys’ court papers.

Ellis aggressively approached the singer and engaged her in a profanity-laced screaming match and appeared to be recording a video, but due  to her vulnerable condition, Cardi B backed up and the argument ended quickly when staff from the obstetrician’s office intervened, the rapper’s attorneys further state in their pleadings.

Ellis’ claims for civil rights violations and false imprisonment were dismissed before trial. She filed the suit in February 2020.

The singer’s real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar.

After the verdict was read, Cardi B thanked her supporters and again maintained that she never assaulted Ellis.

“I swear to God, I will say it on my death bed, I did not touch that woman. I did not touch that woman,” she said. “I didn’t lay my hands on that girl. “With that being said — with that being said — this time around I’m going to be nice,” the rapper told reporters. “But the next person that tries to do a frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m going to counter-sue and I’m going to make you pay. Because this is not OK. … Don’t you ever think that you’re going to sue me and I’m going to settle and just give you money Because it’s not going to happen.” (CNS)

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