Almost one month after a judge ruled that blogger Tasha K must pay Cardi B $4 million in a defamation lawsuit, the woman has come out to say that she has paid the Bronx rapper.
But Cardi B must have not received the payment stating that would have to check her Apple Pay.
On Saturday, the YouTube personality posted that she had just paid off her $4 million debt.
PSA Winos [clinking glasses emoji] I just paid off my 4 million dollar debt in cash [prayer hands emoji],” she tweeted. She then shared the same message on her Instagram.
The gossip blog Neighborhood Talk reposted the claim that she had paid off Cardi B, to which the rapper commented “Mhhhhmmmm [thinking man emoji]……let me check my Apple Pay.”
On March 21, Tasha K lost an appeal to have the judgment reversed. She would later go on Instagram to apologize to the WAP star and vowed to pay her.
But fans were surprised that the blogger was able to cough up $4 million so soon. It then dawned on online spectators that she announced she had paid Cardi B on April Fools Day.
Born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar Cephus, Cardi B sued Tasha K in 2019 for suggesting in a YouTube video that Cardi B was a drug addict among other malicious things said about the 30-year-old rapper. She would later win the case in January 2022, with a federal jury awarding the star $4 million in damages.
Born Latasha Kebe, Tasha K would then file an appeal stating that the judgment was a “very lopsided presentation of evidence to the jury.” But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected Kebe’s appeal.
“There are two issues here. One is whether the jury had sufficient evidence to hold appellants—Latasha Kebe and others—liable for defamation (and other privacy torts) against appellee Belcalis Almanzar (better known as ‘Cardi B’). The other is whether the district court erred by excluding evidence,” the appeals court wrote. “We hold that Kebe hasn’t preserved either issue for appeal.”
