Following Cardi B’s victory in her defamation lawsuit against Tasha K, the latter is now seeking a new trial, claiming the rapper failed at disproving her alleged claims.

In the new court documents acquired by AllHipHop, the Youtuber is arguing that Cardi B failed to dispute accusations of prostitution and HPV in their legal dispute. Tasha was held culpable by a jury of her peers, for defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional cause of emotional distress earlier this year.

According to Tasha K’s lawyer Olga Izmaylova, “[Cardi B’s] claims were based on six statements, which she alleged were Defamatory.”

“However, Plaintiff failed to prove, with clear and convincing evidence, that the Defendants published any of those six statements with actual malice. The gist of Plaintiff’s evidence consisted of her testimony that those six statements were not true. Meanwhile, the Defendants presented a plethora of evidence, showing the origin of each one of the six statements and proving the Defendants did not act with actual malice.”

Tasha K goes on to assert that the trial was biased towards her, with her lawyer also claiming that the court wrongly disallowed character testimony from being presented to the jury.

The filing stated: “At trial, the Defendants were prohibited from presenting evidence of [Cardi B’s] character and specific instances of Plaintiff’s conduct, even though under Georgia law, when there is an assertion of damage to reputation (like in this case), Plaintiff’s character is substantively at issue.

“The district court’s erroneous exclusion of Plaintiff’s character evidence resulted in a very lopsided presentation of evidence to the jury. Because the jury did not get to learn the type of conduct Plaintiff engages in or who the Plaintiff truly is as a person, the jury returned a general verdict for the Plaintiff, against both Defendants.”

Izmaylova then states that Cardi B failed to prove that the vlogger’s statements were made with intent of malice, and that her client provided a “plethora of evidence” which was based on statements the rapper herself had made prior.

“Ms. Kebe testified that when she said [Cardi B] was a prostitute, she believed that to be a true statement because ‘Ms. Almanzar has made various videos over the course of her career bragging about being a prostitute and having tricks,” Izmaylova wrote. “The Defendants proved that Ms. Kebe did not act with actual malice when Ms. Kebe said Plaintiff was a prostitute, so Plaintiff cannot prevail on the defamation claim with that statement.”

She then addressed Tasha K’s STD allegations, saying:

“Ms. Kebe has never made the statement that [Cardi B] has genital herpes and no evidence of such a statement was introduced at trial,” Izmaylova wrote. “When asked whether Jones said Plaintiff had herpes, Ms. Kebe clarified ‘[c]old sores to be exact.’”

Izmaylova add, “Ms. Kebe testified that when she says Plaintiff has cold sores or herpes, she is basing that statement on the following information: the definition of cold sores as an ‘infection with the herpes simplex virus around the border of the lips; a video in which Ms. Kebe believed she heard Plaintiff admit to having cold sores; pictures of Plaintiff with cold sores on her lips; pictures of Plaintiff’s husband with cold sores on his lips; tons of tweets, dating back to 2015, stating that Plaintiff has cold sores or herpes; hearing other celebrities say that Plaintiff has cold sores or herpes; and knowing that those pictures, tweets, and statements (published long before the Jones interview) are still available to the public and that Plaintiff has never sued any of the people, who made those statements, for defamation.”

In her request for a new trial, Tasha K claims that a jury wrongly found her responsible for defamation and invasion of privacy. According to her lawyer, if the case is retried, the initial verdict “must be reversed in its entirety” and character evidence must be permitted.

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