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Cardi B gives warning to others thinking of taking on “frivolous” lawsuits against her after winning civil assault trial

September 3, 2025 Culture

Cardi B has issued warnings to those considering taking on “frivolous” lawsuits against her after winning her civil assault trial.

Security guard Emani Ellis alleged Cardi assaulted her in a hallway of a Beverly Hills obstetrician’s office which the rapper attended while trying to conceal her pregnancy in 2018. Cardi told jurors she made an effort to conceal the medical visit because she didn’t want to announce she was expecting her first child with Offset at that time, but claimed Ellis was recording her and blew her cover.

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While she has admitted that the pair got into a “verbal altercation”, she denied that she assaulted Ellis and fought back against her claim for $24 million in damages. Ellis alleged her cheek was cut with a three-inch nail and she was spat on, leaving her “deeply traumatised”.

Yesterday (September 2), attorneys for Cardi and security guard Emani Ellis presented their closing arguments, with the jury coming to a quick verdict in the rapper’s favour after deliberating for less than an hour.

Speaking outside the courtroom yesterday, Cardi insisted she did not “touch” Ellis. “I am not even playing around,” she said. “Even if I’m in my deathbed, I swear to God, I will say it in my deathbed, I did not touch that woman. I did not touch that girl. I didn’t lay my hands on that girl.”

Cardi went on to thank her lawyers, the jury and the judge in the case, and gave a warning to anyone considering bringing another “frivolous lawsuit” against her.

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“Let’s just put this behind [us],” she said. “But I’m giving a warning: I am not that celeb you gonna sue and you think is going to settle. Especially when I am super, completely innocent. I know I’ve got a little reputation but I swear to god I am innocent,” she added, drawing laughter from the media gathered outside the Alhambra courthouse.

“You don’t work at home, and you don’t work all day, and you don’t work for your money to give out your money,” she said. “So don’t ever think that I’m just going to give you my money that I work hard for.”

‘The next person that tries to do a frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m going to countersue and I’m going to make you pay,’ the rapper added, before asking her fans not to attack Ellis or her family on social media.

She later took to X/Twitter to address the trial, writing: “I missed my kids first day of school today for this… if you think I’m here to play with you GODDAM IT IM NOT !!”

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She also reposted a TikTok video of her dancing to her new track ‘Bodega Baddie’ in her courtroom outfit, which has become the latest in a series of colourful moments throughout the trial.

Last week, several clips of Cardi on the witness stand went viral after she delivered several funny quips, often pausing to make bemused faces in her cross-examination and delivering dry one-liners about the alleged incident.

In one video, she was seen being asked how she knew Ellis was physically bigger than her, which she responded by pointing towards her own eyes. She then flipped her hair over her shoulder with pride and told the courtroom she was “130 pounds at that time”, another line that has garnered a lot of response on social media.

Elsewhere, the attorney questioned how her hair had changed from a cropped black wig the day before to a long blonde and then black wig.

“Yesterday you had black hair, short hair. Today it’s blonde and long. Which one is your real hair? Or are they both real?” he asked her.

She laughed before clarifying they were wigs, to which the lawyer responded: “Okay. Sorry, I didn’t know that. It’s a good wig today, then.”

That line of questioning has led many on social media to question the apparent misogynistic and racial undertone of his approach, particularly in light of comments made about her wig and the length of her fake nails.