A jury has cleared rapper Cardi B in a civil suit claiming the rapper attacked a security guard. -AP
A California jury has unanimously cleared pop star Cardi B of assault allegationsin a civil lawsuit brought by a security guard over an encounter outside a Beverly Hills obstetrician's office in 2018.
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The 12-member Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for less than an hour before reaching a verdict siding with the 32-year-old, Grammy-winning hip-hop performer, whose biggest hits include Taki Taki and I Like It.
The plaintiff in the case, former security officer Emani Ellis, claimed in the $US24 million ($A37 million) lawsuit that Cardi B physically attacked her, spit on her and shouted racial slurs at her. Both women are Black.
Cardi B testified that she never touched the plaintiff but acknowledged cursing at the security guard when Ellis tried to take mobile phone video of the singer on her way to an obstetrician visit when she was pregnant but had yet to publicly announce the pregnancy.
At the time, Cardi B was expecting the first of her three children fathered by rapper Offset.
Speaking to reporters after the verdict, Cardi B repeated her assertions of innocence, saying, "I did not touch that woman, I did not lay my hands on that girl." She vowed to file a countersuit if she were ever named again as a defendant in a "frivolous lawsuit".
