Cardi B, her sister Hennessy and model Michelle Diaz are facing a lawsuit from beachgoers in New York.
Suffolk County beachgoers are suing Hennessy for assault, battery, defamation, and civil rights violations after an incident on Smith Point Beach on September 6 2020.
Cardi B, 27, came to the defense of younger sister Hennessy Carolina, who claimed she and her girlfriend were being harassed by Trump supporters over a parking space during a beach trip.
In the video shared on Instagram, Hennessy, 24, was seen arguing with a woman and two men, one of whom was wearing a red MAGA hat.
The rapper shared the clip on Twitter where she accused the group of targeting her sister and her girlfriend Michelle Diaz because they are a Afro/Hispanic gay couple.
However, attorney for the group, John Ray said, “These peaceful Suffolk County residents were quietly enjoying a Sunday at the Smith Point beach with their families, when rap celebrity Hennessy Carolina suddenly approached them, raging, spitting, insulting, assaulting, defaming and threatening them, all the while videotaping them because one of them wore a MAGA hat”.
Ray says Carolina’s sister Cardi B and her partner Michelle Diaz were also named in the lawsuit for defamation and civil rights violations.
“Then Hennessy, Cardi B and celebrity model Michelle Diaz deviously edited the videotape and published the edited version all over social media, across the world for all to see, and maliciously falsely labeled these residents and their families as ‘N…s’ and as racists,” Ray said.
“Real threats of harm were made. They live in fear now. Their reputations have been ruined.
We seek substantial damages”.
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