Cardi B Seeks Sanctions Against Tasha K for Discussing Offset’s Gambling

Cardi B ’s lawyers are once again going after Tasha K, claiming the gossip blogger violated a gag order by publicly mocking her ex-husband Offset over his alleged gambling issues.

In court filings Monday, Cardi (Belcalis Almánzar) says Tasha (Latasha Kebe) breached a bankruptcy settlement signed last year that barred her from making harmful statements about the rapper — a deal necessary because Tasha owes Cardi $4 million after losing a defamation lawsuit.

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Cardi’s lawyers say Tasha’s statements about Offset — she allegedly said “he would probably still be in a certain relationship if he wasn’t gambling away all that money” — were clearly in reference to Cardi and an obvious violation of the settlement.

“Willful violations of court orders must have consequences,” writes Cardi’s attorney Lisa Moore in the court filing obtained by Billboard , later adding that Tasha is trying to “weaponize” the settlement as “a revenue-generating business model.”

An attorney for Tasha did not immediately return a request for comment on Tuesday (May 5).

Monday’s filings are the latest in Cardi’s long-running legal battles with Tasha. In 2022, she won a $4 million judgment after a jury found that the blogger made defamatory statements about drug use, STDs and prostitution on YouTube and other platforms.

Cardi has repeatedly vowed to recover that money by any means necessary — saying “imma come for everything” and “b—- better have my money.” But Tasha filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023, saying she still owed $3.4 million to Cardi and had less than $60,000 in assets.

Bankruptcy doesn’t typically absolve people of judgments over fraudulent or malicious conduct, and Cardi’s lawyers quickly moved to dismiss the case . Faced with that outcome, Tasha’s lawyers struck a deal: a gradual repayment plan for $1.2 million and a court-approved promise to avoid saying anything else about Cardi or her associates.

But last month, Cardi’s lawyers said Tasha was flouting that deal. They said the blogger had continued to “target and harass Ms. Almánzar and her family” with “thinly coded” attacks to more than 1 million viewers, including by referencing Offset and NFL star Stefon Diggs, Cardi’s recent ex-boyfriend.

In a response last week, Tasha’s lawyers said she was still allowed to speak publicly about “newsworthy events involving independent public figures,” even if they have a connection to Cardi.

“The non-disparagement clause prohibits defamatory statements regarding Ms. Almánzar and her family,” Tasha’s lawyers wrote on Friday. “It does not grant her a veto over all public commentary regarding independent third parties.”

But in Monday’s filing, Cardi’s lawyers said Tasha’s arguments were just excuses from a woman with a “delusional belief that the law does not apply to her” who is now trying to evade a settlement that she “never intended to honor.”

“She has made clear she resents it, views it as an obstacle to be overcome, and intends to continue as well as to escalate and resume the very defamatory conduct that generated the $4 million judgment once the Plan terminates,” Moore writes for Cardi. “These are not the actions of someone navigating an ambiguous order in good faith.”

Cardi’s lawyers also made a separate bombshell accusation: That Tasha’s court filings included a citation to a fake cases that appears to be an AI-generated “hallucination.”

“Using fake and hallucinated cases casts a shadow of invalidity on the judicial process,” her lawyers write. “Ms. Almánzar does not presume to know whether this citation was generated through AI assistance [or] some other mechanism. What she does know [is that it] does not exist.”

Such accusations have become increasingly common over the past three years. In one high-profile case last year, a Wyoming federal judge punished two lawyers for citing AI-fabricated cases in a lawsuit against Walmart. In another case last month, the elite firm Sullivan & Cromwell was forced to apologize to a bankruptcy judge after hallucinated case citations were included in its court filings.

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/pro/cardi-b-tashak-offset-gambling/)._