Plaintiffs Manuel Alarcon, Peter Caliendo and Pauline Caliendo filed a lawsuit on September 21, 2020, alleging that the video of the quarrel leaked online by Cardi after it was first published by Hennessy’s younger sister Carolina Almanzar unjustly accused them of being “racists.” Alarcon was said to be wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and a vehicle near the Caliendos beach camp wearing a “Trump” flag when Hennessy “outraged” them with “threats, disgusting and intimidating language” and “slanderous statements”. . They said some of the derogatory remarks were directed at “Donald Trump and his supporters.” They also claimed that Hennessy hit Alarcon and Peter Caliendo when he allegedly “sprayed her plenty of spit”. Cardi, Hennessy and a third-party plaintiff named Michelle Diaz, identified as Hennessy’s girlfriend, described the lawsuit as “unfounded” in a response to her dismissal. The judge accepted the request on Friday, ruling that Cardi was not even at Smith Point Beach on the day of the showdown on September 6, 2020, and when she shared a video excerpt later that day, she did not identify anyone by name or make any defamatory statements. “[Plaintiffs] “They have failed to claim any specific harm or defamation per se,” Judge William Condon wrote in his ruling. “They can not specify to whom the slanderous statements were made. In addition, neither Cardi B nor Michelle Diaz made defamatory statements or posted videos on the Internet about the incident. “The words spoken to the plaintiffs do not come from defamatory language, as they were just general insults.” Judge Condon also ruled that Hennessy did not make “threatening gestures” and never intended to spit “in order to have physical contact with the plaintiffs”, so their allegations of assault and battery also failed. Lawyers on both sides did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Rolling Stone on Friday. In their most rejected lawsuit, Alarcon and Caliendos claimed that Hennessy and Diaz illegally parked their Mercedes G6 on the beach, blocking one of their vehicles. “My sister can not go to the beach in Hampton with the minds of Trump supporters harassing them because they were alone and Santa Claus harassing my sister GF because they are an Afro / Hispanic gay couple,” Cardi B wrote in the video. he wrote on Twitter. September 6. Do you want to know why Joe has to talk to me Candice because I have the number 1 song and yet my sister can not go to the beach at Hampton’s in the spirit of his Trump supporters harassing them because they were alone & Santa Claus harassing his sister my GF all because they are an afro / hispanic gay couple pic.twitter.com/ISfJStODme – Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 6, 2020 In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, filed last September, the lawyer representing Cardi, Hennessy and Diaz argued that Hennessy’s statements in the video were “obviously” not intended to be “taken literally.” She exclaimed: “I took a dildo, I will pick it up in your ass and then in your husband’s ass”, despite the fact that it was in the middle of a full beach without a dildo. “This exaggerated and metaphorical language cannot be the basis of a defamation claim,” the statement said. Cardi’s legal victory on Friday was filed after she won a $ 4 million defamation verdict against YouTube blogger Tasha K in January. In that case, Cardi was the plaintiff and successfully persuaded jurors that she had been defamed on false allegations that she had herpes, used cocaine and worked as a prostitute.
