Cardi B Pleads Not Guilty To Additional Charges Following Strip Club Fight
Jun. 25 2019, Published 9:05 p.m. ET
Cardi B has officially pleaded not guilty to new charges stemming from a fight in a New York strip club last summer.
The rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, was arraigned in Queens on Tuesday, June 25, and charged with two counts of felony attempted assault and various lesser charges, including harassment and reckless endangerment.
"Not guilty sir, honor," she said, when asked for her plea.
As RadarOnline.com first reported, Cardi B and her entourage allegedly threw glass bottles, chairs and even hookah pipes at two bartenders during a fight inside a strip club, causing minor injuries to both.
After rejecting a plea deal earlier this year that would have resulted in no jail time, prosecutors put the case in front of a grand jury, which upgraded the top charges to felonies.
Check out this RadarOnline.com gallery to learn what the fight was about, and what comes next for the troubled singer.
Quite A Turnaround
Fresh off winning Album of the Year and Best Female Hip Hop Artist of the Year at the BET Awards, Cardi B found herself in court on Tuesday.
The Attack
The “Money” rapper, 26, was arrested last October after allegedly bursting into a New York strip club in August and attacking two female bartenders.
Hook Up
Sources said the fight arose from rumors one of the women was hooking up with Cardi’s husband, Offset.
‘It Got Crazy’
“The women came in here and started arguing for about 10 minutes,” the security guard at Angels Strip Club in Queens told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “Once the women started arguing it, escalated into something different, and afterward it just got crazy.”
Not ‘Cool!’
“They were arguing about some guy, and who was cheating on who. Next thing you know, things were being thrown, glass was breaking. It wasn’t cool.”
Aftermath
In the aftermath of the attack and cheating allegations, Cardi B and Offset called it quits, after just one year of marriage.
All Out Of Love
“It’s nobody fault I guess we just grew out of love but we are not together anymore,” she shared in an emotional post on Instagram last December. “I don’t know it might take time to get a divorce and I’m going to always have a lot of love for him because he is my daughter’s father.”
Charges
Cardi B. and alleged co-defendants Tawana Jackson-Morel and Jeffrey Bush were previously indicted on 14 charges, including two counts of felony attempted assault with intent to cause serious physical injury or weapon.
More Charges
She was also indicted on charges of misdemeanor conspiracy, criminal solicitation, and reckless endangerment, among others.
Pleas
Cardi B, Jackson-Morel and Bush each entered not guilty pleas to Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas. They each face up to four years in prison if convicted on each attempted assault charge.