Cardi B has responded to a new lawsuit alleging that she and estranged husband Offset tricked the owner of a massive Beverly Hills mansion into letting them shoot a music video for her song “Like What” for virtually free.
“The problem is people want to find loopholes and move on, but iron your best bitch,” the Grammy-winning rapper wrote on X. “I’ll see you in court!!!!”
According to the mansion owner's 11-page complaint we obtained, Rolling StoneCardi and Offset had their sights set on using the very distinctive glass and aluminum home formerly inhabited by Justin Bieber and “developed a plan” to use it “without paying full market value.” The property owner, identified as Bi LLC, alleged that the couple reached out through their representatives in late 2023 or early 2024 and anonymously reserved the home “under false pretenses” to use it in a TikTok video. The lawsuit alleges that Cardi and Offset later appeared and made the property’s “distinctive architecture” the “centerpiece” of their full-length music video.
“All Defendants have improperly benefited from their unauthorized use of the property at Plaintiff’s expense, and continue to do so,” the lawsuit said. The plaintiffs accuse the celebrity couple of trespass, unjust enrichment, and intentional misrepresentation, and seek all profits from the “Like What” video, as well as punitive damages.
In her social media post following the lawsuit filing on Tuesday, Cardi claimed the complaint was full of fallacies. “We paid these people $10,000 cash to rent the property for a full 24 hours on the same day from 6am to 6am the next day and we skipped an hour that we charged the real estate agent extra for in March,” she wrote. The “Money” singer added that the property had “cameras everywhere” and both the agents and the owners were present “the entire time.”
“I got pics and videos of them on set!! Now they want to trick us by trying to say we told them it was a TikTok video when that was nowhere in the contract like they didn’t hear the whole song or see how long we were filming,” she wrote. “Why does it take us 24 hours to film a TikTok video?”
We paid those people $10,000 IN CASH to rent the property for a whole 24 hours that same day 6am to 6am the next morning and we went over by ONE hour which we paid overage fees to the realtor for in March. There was cameras all over and both the realtors and the owners was there… pic.twitter.com/qu8KogsZzs
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 17, 2024
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, included still images from the filming of the video and noted that “Like What” had more than 26 million views on YouTube in six months.
Earlier this month, Cardi and Offset welcomed their third child together. The couple, who announced their split over the summer, announced the news with a series of Instagram photos.
Cardi has indicated that she will release a new album after her first album. Privacy violationAnd her representative confirmed that. Rolling Stone She plans to release an album in 2024. In July, the rapper was featured on Rob49's new song, “On Dat Money,” along with a music video filmed in a New Jersey mansion.
