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'It's Showtime': Judge Tees Up Cardi B Trial in $5 Million Suit Over 'Sexual' Cover Art
"I think it's a very interesting case, and it's one I think the jurors would enjoy," U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney said after it became clear that earlier settlement discussions in the case had lost their momentum
Cardi B is speeding toward an Aug. 3 trial date for the $5 million lawsuit that claims she misappropriated a California man's tattooed likeness and portrayed him in a "sexual" context on the cover of her 2016 mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1.
At a lengthy hearing Monday, a federal judge in Santa Ana, California, set the trial's ground rules, confirmed Cardi is expected to testify in person, and hammered out a statement of the case that he plans to read to prospective jurors before a panel of eight is selected to hear the expected four-day trial. (Federal law allows civil trials to proceed with as few as six jurors, but such slimmed-down panels must reach unanimous verdicts to avoid a mistrial.)
"It's showtime," U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney said after it became clear that earlier settlement discussions in the long-running dispute had lost their momentum."I don't think this case is a complex case, but I think it's a very interesting case, and it's one I think the jurors would enjoy," Judge Carney said as he painstakingly edited the statement of the case set to be delivered to the jury pool at the outset of the selection process. "I'd like them to know this is the case before they think about whether they want to get off the case or not."
Plaintiff Kevin Michael Brophy Jr. claims in his 2017 lawsuit that he has suffered "distress and humiliation" because the cover art in question shows his distinctive back tattoos on a faceless man photographed with his head between Cardi's legs as she drinks a beer inside a limousine.
For her part, the superstar rapper born Belcalis Almánzar contends Brophy's tattoo art was superimposed without her knowledge on the back of a male model who posed with her for the photo during a shoot in Toronto. She argues it's clear Brophy, who is caucasian, is not the same person as the Black model in the photo — and, either way, the tattoo design on her cover art "is demonstrably different" from the image of Brophy that he says was used to add his likeness through "photoshopping."
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