Mariah Carey’s Brother Morgan Carey Allowed To Move Forward W/ Defamation Lawsuit Over Claims In Singer’s Book That He Sold Drugs & Had “Been In The System”

Mariah Carey, Morgan Carey

Mariah Carey’s Brother Morgan Carey Allowed To Move Forward W/ Defamation Lawsuit Over Claims In Singer’s Book That He Sold Drugs & Had “Been In The System”

It seems like Mariah Carey’s memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, has landed her in a little bit of trouble.

As previously reported, last year Mariah Carey’s older brother, Morgan Carey, filed a defamation lawsuit against her for the alleged emotional distress he suffered due to what was written about him in her New York Times best-seller. According to Morgan Carey, his superstar sister falsely painted him as a violent person when she detailed an alleged fight that occurred between him and their father, which caused him to experience “extreme mental anguish” and “serious damage to his reputation.” He also accused the ‘We Belong Together’ singer of alluding that he once tried to extort her, and claiming that he had previously been in,

“the [criminal justice] system.”

Mariah Carey

It now looks like Mariah Carey will have to prepare to face her big brother in court. According to recent reports, a judge ruled earlier this week that Mariah must face accusations that she did in fact defame her brother in her book. Despite the judge dismissing numerous allegations made by Morgan Carey, she did rule that he could sue his sister for defamation over two passages that claimed he had sold drugs and had “been in the system”.

In her decision, Justice Barbara Jaffe wrote,

“Although Carey maintains that the phrase ‘sometimes drug dealing’ is a ‘rhetorical epithet,’ in light of the earlier statement that plaintiff had supplied clubgoers with ‘powdered party favours,’ the average reader could understand this phrase to mean that plaintiff had committed a serious crime.”

She continued,

“The context reasonably permits an average reader to conclude that Carey refers in this statement to cocaine, which is a controlled substance, the possession and/or sale of which is proscribed by New York law…It thus implies that plaintiff committed a serious crime and is sufficient to support [an] action for defamation per se.”

Reportedly, Morgan Carey is very “pleased” by the judge’s decision.

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