Mariah Carey Defamation Lawsuit Court Date Set

Three years ago pop star Mariah Carey's brother, Morgan Carey, filed a defamation of character lawsuit against her after she accused him of being a drug dealer in her autobiography, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey [click here if you missed that]." 

The court date has been set...

From The Sun

MARIAH Carey will face questioning from lawyers over claims she made in her memoir about her brother Morgan allegedly selling drugs just weeks after the deaths of their mom and sister.

A date has been set for the singer to give a videotaped in-person deposition on January 17 at the law offices of her brother's legal team in New York, according to court papers obtained by The U.S. Sun.

Morgan filed a lawsuit against his younger sister Mariah back in March 2021 claiming she had written lies about him in her autobiography The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.

Morgan, 64, and Mariah, 55, are not believed to have spoken since 1994 and in the book she calls him her "ex-brother."

In the bestseller, Mariah alleges her brother had been violent towards her, had sold drugs when he worked in a New York nightclub in the 1980s and implied he had been in prison - all claims Morgan denies.

In one passage in the book, she describes an alleged incident where "12 cops" had to pull apart a violent altercation between Morgan and their father.

"I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me," she wrote.

"More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too."

In another passage she describes Morgan as her "sometimes drug-dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk a** brother," insinuating he had been in prison.

The lawsuit also references another paragraph in the book where Mariah alleges that Morgan "discreetly supplied the beautiful people with their powdered party favors" when he worked in a hip New York nightclub in the late 1980s, which his lawyers said is "reasonably understood as a reference to cocaine."

Morgan strongly denied all the claims, alleging in the suit that she had inflicted "emotional distress" on him by printing "false and defamatory, personally invasive and painful" claims about him which had caused "serious damage" to his reputation.

"[Morgan] brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,” the lawsuit said.

"He is by no means envious of his sister's enormous artistic and personal success, has enjoyed his own successes both professional and personal and has always wished her well."

A judge tossed out most of the lawsuit in February 2022 but did allow two parts to continue, including the claims that Morgan was a drug dealer and the implication he had been prison.

In an affidavit filed in the case in August 2022, Mariah said she stood by her statements "as fully accurate, as stated in my own literary style."