A Los Angeles judge has sided with Cardi B and denied Emani Ellis, the security guard who unsuccessfully sued the rapper for assault in September, a new trial.
Ellis previously alleged that Cardi had assaulted her in a hallway of a Beverly Hills obstetrician’s office, which the rapper attended while attempting to conceal a pregnancy in 2018. Months ago, Cardi told jurors she made an effort to hide the medical visit because she didn’t want to announce she was expecting her first child with Migos and solo star Offset at that time, but claimed Ellis was recording her and blew her cover.
While she admitted that the pair got into a “verbal altercation”, she denied that she assaulted Ellis, who alleged her cheek was cut with a three-inch nail and she was spat on, leaving her “deeply traumatised”.
After deliberating for less than an hour, the jury came to a quick verdict in the rapper’s favour. Following that lawsuit being rejected, Ellis asked for a new trial, arguing that Cardi had “intimidated” jurors by throwing a pen at a reporter while talking to the media.
Cardi’s lawyers called Ellis’ request “baseless” and “absurd”, and said it should be “rejected out of hand.” At a court hearing on Friday (December 5), Judge Ian C. Fusselman rejected the pen-toss argument and finalised a ruling that denied Ellis a new trial, per Rolling Stone.
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