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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

Mariah Carey wins dismissal of brother’s defamation lawsuit over her memoir

Mariah Carey and her brother Morgan Carey smile closely together at an event
Singer Mariah Carey and her brother Morgan at the American Music Awards in 1991. Carey has won the dismissal of a defamation lawsuit filed by Morgan in 2021 over claims in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey. Photograph: Barry King/Alamy

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit from Mariah Carey’s brother, five years after he accused her of defaming him in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

In the memoir, Carey described Morgan as a “sometimes drug dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk-ass brother” and called him her “ex-brother”.

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