Cardi B is being sued for alleged battery after throwing a microphone off stage in 2023.
The 32-year-old singer was performing at Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas on July 29, 2023 when she allegedly threw her microphone at the unnamed woman in the audience.
According to the complaint, filed in the Eighth Judicial Court in Clark County, Nevada, and obtained by PEOPLE, Cardi “appeared onstage under visibly high-temperature conditions and, while holding a microphone, verbally requested that the audience splash water on her”.
The lawsuit claims that Cardi “made repeated gestures and statements encouraging concertgoers to throw water, implicitly authorising and inviting light splashing from drinks.
“[Cardi] further demonstrated her consent and participation by pouring water from a bottle over her body while onstage,” and she “physically reacted to splashes by slapping her posterior while audience-thrown liquids made contact with her”.
The alleged victim – who is referred to as Jane Done in the lawsuit – claims that in “accordance with the environment,” and “in a manner consistent with other attendees, [she] splashed a small portion of her drink in Cardi B’s direction”.
However, she claims that Cardi reacted in “apparent anger and without warning” and “suddenly and forcefully” threw her microphone directly at her, where she experienced “immediate apprehension of an imminent harmful contact”.
The woman alleged the microphone made contact with her, “resulting in offensive and unconsented physical contact and causing physical injury”.
In court papers, she claims Cardi should have known that the microphone “presented a foreseeable risk of physical injury when thrown,” and it was “an unjustified and retaliatory act that resulted in harmful and offensive contact”.
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She added that Cardi’s actions were “excessive, disproportionate, and undertaken in a public venue, causing additional reputational and emotional harm,” and claims she suffered “severe emotional distress, shock, humiliation, and physical injury”.
She is suing for assault, battery and negligence, and is also suing Drai’s Management Group for negligence.
