Mariah Carey has won the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit brought by her brother over claims made in her bestselling memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.<\/p>\n
A New York judge ruled on Monday that Morgan Carey had failed to sufficiently establish “actual malice” in his case against the singer.<\/p>\n
Morgan sued his sister in 2021, alleging that her 2020 book had damaged his reputation by suggesting he had sold cocaine and spent time in prison.<\/p>\n
His original lawsuit also challenged passages portraying him as violent.<\/p>\n
Most of his claims were dismissed in 2022, but two passages relating to alleged drug dealing and imprisonment were allowed to proceed.<\/p>\n
In the latest ruling, Judge Leslie A Stroth said: “The Court finds that Plaintiff has not sufficiently pleaded actual malice on the part of Defendant.”<\/p>\n
Under New York law, the legal standard in this case required Morgan to show that his sister knew the statements were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth.<\/p>\n
Morgan had claimed damages exceeding $20 million.<\/p>\n
Carey\u2019s lawyer, John Rosenberg, told Billboard the singer was “gratified” by the decision, which he said recognised that her memoir addressed matters of public interest.<\/p>\n
However, Morgan\u2019s lawyer, Richard Altman, said he disagreed with the ruling and intended to appeal.<\/p>\n
“We respectfully disagree with today\u2019s decision as being inconsistent with prior rulings in the case,” he told Billboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey has won the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit brought by her brother over claims made in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-660252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}