Mariah Carey is celebrating an important win. A court has ruled to dismiss her brother's $20 million lawsuit against her, which alleged she'd defamed him in her 2021 memoir "The Meaning of Mariah Carey." The decision was made by a New York court this Monday.
© Getty ImagesMariah's brother, Morgan Carey, filed the lawsuit in 2021. He claimed that Mariah's memoir had tarnished his reputation, saying that her book portrayed him as violent and that it accused him of drug trafficking.
Ultimately, the judge found that Morgan didn't provide enough evidence to show that Mariah acted with malice, and thus dismissed the suit.
“Plaintiff has not sufficiently pleaded actual malice on the part of [Mariah],” wrote Justice Stroth, according to the reported ruling published by Billboard.
© Mariah Carey“Plaintiff fails to provide any proof that [Mariah] made such statements with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard of their falsity or with reckless disregard for the truth. While plaintiff alleges that [Mariah] demonstrates ill will towards her brother, such statement is insufficient, and plaintiff has not satisfied the pleading requirement for actual malice.”
More details about Carey's memoir
Shortly before the release of "The Meaning of Mariah Carey," the singer opened up about the long and arduous road of putting the pen to paper and opening up about some of the most difficult moments she's faced in her life, many of them involving her family.
“I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams that contributed to the person I am today," she said in a statement on social media back in 2020.
© Mariah Carey“Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it’s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else’s lens, largely satisfying someone else’s assignment to define me.”
Carey's book was written with Michaela Angela Davis and received positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising the deconstruction of a diva and Carey's resiliency.
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