Cardi B just walked out of a major legal fight with a clean win, but the woman who sued her isn’t ready to let it go. Now Cardi’s team is calling out what they describe as an unnecessary attempt to redo a case the jury already dismissed with ease.
The original lawsuit came from Emani Ellis, a security guard who claimed Cardi attacked her back in 2018 at a Beverly Hills doctor’s office while the rapper was about four months pregnant. Ellis accused Cardi of cursing her out, spitting on her, and scratching her face with an acrylic nail, even saying she needed surgery afterward.
But when the case finally made it to trial, the jury wasn’t convinced at all. After hearing the evidence, they needed less than an hour to completely reject every claim, including assault, battery, emotional distress, and negligence.
Instead of moving on, Ellis is now pushing for a new trial, Billboard reported Thursday. One of her arguments is that Cardi supposedly threw a pen at a reporter outside the courthouse and that jurors might have seen it and felt intimidated. Cardi’s team shut that down immediately, pointing out that the claim wasn’t even brought up during the trial. They also say Ellis hasn’t met any of the legal standards required for getting a new trial, calling the entire request “entirely frivolous.”
Cardi’s lawyers are also highlighting something Ellis’s side would prefer to ignore. Her attorney, Ron Rosen Janfaza, is facing potential sanctions for alleged misconduct during the trial. Cardi’s team argues that the motion for a new trial is nothing more than a distraction from those issues.
With the jury siding decisively with Cardi and the rapper’s team pushing back hard, the fight now moves to whether the judge will even entertain reopening a case that already ended so clearly.
