A day after a jury ordered YouTuber Tasha K to pay $1.25 million for defaming Cardi B by posting false rumors, the jurors tacked on $1.5 million more in punitive damages and ordered the blogger to repay the star’s $1.3 million legal bill.
At time of publishing, a formal verdict form had not yet published by the court, but the details of Tuesday’s new damages awards were conveyed tosimply: “We disagree with the verdict and we will be filing an appeal.”
A trial kicked off on Jan. 10 in Georgia federal court, during which both women took the stand. Cardi B testified that she felt “suicidal” in the wake of Kebe’s videos, and said that “only an evil person could do that sh–.” Kebe initially admitted that she knowingly published lies about the rapper, but she later tried to walk back that statement when examined by her own attorneys.
Tuesday’s added awards dealt with so-called punitive damages, which are reserved only for more egregious bad behavior. Jurors ordered Kebe to pay $1 million in such damages, and ordered her company Kebe Studios LLC to pay another $500,000.
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