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12 Long Island has learned that Suffolk County beachgoers have sued rapper
Cardi B, her sister Hennessy Carolina and model Michelle Diaz over an incident
that happened on Labor Day weekend.
Hennessy
is accused of assault, battery, threatening and defaming three beachgoers on
the Atlantic Ocean, according to a lawsuit filed in court on Sept. 18.
Hennessy’s
sister, Cardi B, and her partner Diaz were also
named in the lawsuit, for defamation and civil rights violations, according to
the beachgoers’ Miller Place attorney, John Ray.
“These
peaceful Suffolk County residents were quietly enjoying a Sunday at the Smith
Point beach with their families, when rap celebrity Hennessy Carolina suddenly
approached them, raging, spitting, insulting, assaulting, defaming and
threatening them, all the while videotaping them, because one of them wore a
MAGA hat,” said Ray.
“Then
Hennessy, Cardi B and 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,” Ray said. “Real threats of harm were made. They live in fear now.
Their reputations have been ruined,” Ray said. “We seek substantial damages.”
A
press conference will be held in Miller Place this afternoon.