Nicki Minaj sues blogger who called her a “cokehead”

Nicki Minaj sues blogger who called her a “cokehead”
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Nicki Minaj has filed a $75,000 defamation lawsuit against a blogger who said she was a “cokehead” and was known for “shoving” cocaine up her nose.

In the lawsuit, the rapper says Marley Green, a blogger known as Nosey Heaux, “falsely and maliciously” called her a drug addict in a Twitter video posted Monday that “outrageously defamed” her and sparked a “firestorm of social media attention,” Rolling Stone reports.

The filing includes a transcript of the video in which Green calls Minaj a cokehead: “[Minaj is] shoving all this cocaine, shoving in all this cocaine up her nose. Allegedly. Thank you. Allegedly. But we all know it’s true. F*** – listen, I can’t even say allegedly with that ‘cause I – we know it’s true. I’m not saying allegedly on that. Nicki Minaj is a cokehead.”

The lawsuit says that Green’s “statement was false because [the] plaintiff has never used cocaine.”

Green says she’ll countersue.

“Nicki Minaj has been in a rage for several days now. She threatened me, sent her barbz to harass and threaten to kill me, now doxxing me. She has gone way too far and I’m definitely suing her. #Survivingthepettys,” Green tweeted.

“Marley Green is a disgrace – someone so lacking in fundamental decency that she has posted vile comments about Nicki’s one-year-old son,” Minaj’s lawyer Judd Burstein said in a statement sent to Rolling Stone.

“She will no longer be permitted to use the name ‘Nosey Heaux’ because we will take her trademark from her when she does not have enough money to pay the judgment,” he added. “Anyone else who spreads lies about Nicki will suffer a similar fate.”

Nicki’s lawsuit follows Cardi B successfully suing blogger Tasha K for defamation in April. She was awarded more than $4 million in damages.

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