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Published 16:34 23 Sep 2020 GMT
Cardi B and her sister have reportedly been hit with a defamation lawsuit over a video posted by the 'I Like It' rapper, in which a group of beachgoers - some wearing MAGA hats - were branded as "racist".
As reported by TMZ, Peter Caliendo, Pauline Caliendo, and Manuel Alarcon are suing Cardi B, her sister, Hennessy Carolina, and her sister's girlfriend, Michelle Diaz following the hostile incident captured on camera.
In footage recorded by Carolina and later shared to Twitter by the Hustlers actress, both parties can be seen and heard shouting profanities at each other.
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"I’ll beat the f**k outta you," Carolina tells the beachgoers. She can also be heard telling them to "back the f**k up" a number of times.
Carolina then refers to Mrs. Caliendo as a "Karen", adding: "I hope you know that you will be online and your husband".
TMZ obtained documents on the altercation, which occurred at Smith Point Beach in the Hamptons earlier this month.
The documents state that the two Caliendos along with Alarcon claim they had been minding their own business while at the beach with their families when Carolina, entirely unprovoked, approached the group in anger.
The plaintiffs allege that the famous rapper's sister began spitting, insulting, and threatening.
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They claim Carolina, 24, had targeted the group all because one member was wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
Cardi B's tweet and accompanying footage of the incident tells a different story. The outspoken performer claimed that the plaintiffs were "harassing" the couple "all because they are a Afro/Hispanic gay couple [sic]."
She wrote:
"You wanna know why joe gotta talk to me Candice cause I have the #1 song & yet my sister can’t go to the beach in the Hampton’s wit out trump supporters harassing cause they were by themselves & Santa Claus was harassing my sis GF all because they are a Afro/Hispanic gay couple".
Cardi B had posted another video on the same day with audio in which her sister recounts how someone in the opposing group had told her to go back to her country.
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The rapper tweeted alongside the audio:
"Nooooo that big pink man was harassing my sister girlfriend to move her car for no reason and then my sister came there had a back and forth and they stood quit when she Wip that phone out. They was harassing 2 Women! Ya going to catch the right f**kin one! [sic]."
Speaking to ABC 7 New York, the plaintiffs' lawyer, John Ray, states footage and audio circulated across social media has been "deviously edited" to tarnish the reputation of the "peaceful Suffolk County residents".
He said: "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.
"Real threats of harm were made. They live in fear now. Their reputations have been ruined. We seek substantial damages."
As reported by Vanity Fair, Cardi B or her representatives are yet to comment.
