Cardi B‘s $3.9 million judgment won in her defamation lawsuit against YouTuber Tasha K has been years in the making, but a payment plan for the full amount has finally been officially laid out.
As previously reported, Tasha’s legal team recently agreed to a payment plan that will equate to just under $1.2 million over the course of five years as part of her bankruptcy filing. In return, Cardi dropped her objections to said bankruptcy filing.
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But clearly that amount only covers a portion of the full $3,911,680.95 judgement – and now according to documents viewed by HipHopDX, a judge has signed off on Tasha’s plan to pay Cardi portions of any income she brings in over time until she satisfies the full amount.
Throughout this process, the blogger will have to submit copies of her tax returns to Cardi’s legal team as well as file quarterly reports with the court about the income she’s generating.
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As part of the plan, Tasha is also barred from making any derogatory or defamatory comments about the Bronx superstar or her family.
The battle has been ongoing since Cardi B first filed the lawsuit in 2019 over what her lawyers said was a “malicious campaign” to hurt Cardi’s career and reputation. She made videos claiming Cardi had committed sex acts “with beer bottles on fucking stripper stages,” while others accused her of being a prostitute who’d contracted herpes.
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Bardi won in 2022, which resulted in Tasha (real name Latasha Kebe) being ordered to take down over 20 illicit and defamatory videos about Cardi and never post about the “Bodak Yellow” rapper again.
However, it’s since been a battle to get the money, with Tasha filing for bankruptcy back in 2023.
Cardi then attempted to get the YouTuber’s bankruptcy case thrown out, claiming claimed that Tasha and her husband had “orchestrated a months-long scheme to hinder, delay, and defraud” the Bronx rapper’s efforts to collect the $3.9 million.
Tasha then hit back in court in January, claiming that Cardi’s attempt to get the bankruptcy attempted nixed is actually a backdoor attempt to silence her voice. She says that Cardi is insisting on a non-disparagement clause “so broad that it would undermine [Tasha’s] Career.”
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“She seeks to sabotage Debtor’s Career through unreasonable restrictions on her First Amendment rights,” the filing continues. “Having failed to bully Debtor into accepting an overarching non-disparagement clause, Claimant filed the Motion to Dismiss to harm Debtor’s Career and end Debtor’s bankruptcy case.”
As mentioned above, Cardi withdrew her objection to Tasha’s bankruptcy so that the payment plan could go through.
