Inside Cardi B's trial: When a serious lawsuit becomes a comedy show
Card B's facial expressions during the trial had viewers in stitches.
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What was supposed to be a serious $24 million civil lawsuit against Cardi B somehow turned into a courtroom comedy special starring Cardi herself.
The case came from a 2018 Beverly Hills argument where security guard Emani Ellis claimed Cardi, then four months pregnant, scratched her face and spat on her.
Ellis said the incident left her scarred, out of a job, and in need of cosmetic surgery.
Cardi denied ever laying a finger on her, admitting only to a shouting match.
But forget the legalese, because what everyone will remember about the trial is the pure Cardi-isms that had people laughing like it was a Netflix special.
Cameras, that probably shouldn’t have been allowed in court in the first place, caught it all.
From her rolling eyes, her unfiltered swearing, her rapid-fire clapbacks, and let's not forget the stunning wigs, she had us in stitches.
At one point Cardi B simply gestured with her hands.
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One of the funniest moments was when Ellis’s lawyer, Ron Rosen Janfaza, asked Cardi about her hair.
From a short black pixie style to a long blonde wavy do, Janfaza was left confused, which led him to ask her, “Which one is your real hair?”
Cardi burst out laughing, rolled her eyes and responded: “They’re wigs.”
Some people were left confused about the relevance of the question.
The lawyer’s performance didn’t exactly help his client’s case. Social media quickly dubbed him a “Temu lawyer,” cheap, confusing, and occasionally defective.
At one point, he tried to get Cardi to describe Ellis’s size.
Cardi’s response was pure gold: “She’s my height, but security heavy… like she could protect the building.” Then, when pressed further, Cardi simply gestured toward Ellis: “I mean, look.”
Even questions about whether she was “disabled” during pregnancy got the Cardi treatment.
“At that moment, when you’re pregnant, you’re very disabled. You want me to tell you the things I can’t do?” she shot back.
And when asked why she didn’t take her own bodyguard into the doctor’s office, Cardi replied: “I don’t want no guy I work with to know I’m going to a vagina doctor.”
But in the end, this wasn’t just entertainment. The jury took less than an hour to rule in Cardi’s favour, finding her not liable for assault and battery, and Ellis walked away with nothing.
Of course, Cardi couldn’t leave the courthouse without one last headline.
After the verdict, a journalist asked her about Offset allegedly bragging that he got her pregnant for the fourth time. Cardi’s response? Snatching a pen out of the reporter’s hand, tossing it at another, and yelling: “Stop disrespecting me!”
Trial over. Comedy show wrapped. Cardi B, undefeated.
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