In her 2020 memoir, Mariah Carey wrote about her older brother, Morgan Carey, being violent, selling drugs, and spending time in prison. According to her brother, none of these descriptors are true. Alleging that the memoir destroyed his reputation, Morgan sued and now, his lawyers seek evidence that supports Mariah’s claims. In January, lawyers plan to question Mariah Carey about the claims she made about her estranged brother in the memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, reported The U.S. Sun.
In the memoir, 55-year-old Mariah alleged that her older brother didn’t really look out for her. “More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too,” she wrote. At one point, she referred to him as her “sometimes drug-dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk a– brother.”
Because of the way he was portrayed in the memoir, Mariah’s brother Morgan filed a lawsuit against her in 2021. In the lawsuit, he also drew attention to a passage that he believes implied that he sold cocaine.
In her memoir, Mariah recalled how Morgan “discreetly supplied the beautiful people with their powdered party favors.” Morgan has called the claims “false and defamatory.” He said that the information included in Mariah’s memoir caused “emotional distress” and damaged his reputation, per The U.S. Sun.
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Now, Mariah is expected to be questioned under oath due to some of the claims. After Morgan filed the lawsuit against his sister, a judge dismissed some parts of it. However, in January, Mariah will face questioning over two of the claims: that her brother was a drug dealer and that he has spent time in prison.
According to the outlet, Morgan’s lawyers want Mariah to provide evidence that supports these claims about her brother.
Morgan’s lawsuit noted that he is “by no means envious of his sister’s enormous artistic and personal success, has enjoyed his own successes both professional and personal and has always wished her well.” Moreover, he “brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them.”
Meanwhile, Mariah responded to her brother’s lawsuit in 2022, asserting that what she wrote about her brother was “fully accurate.” The estranged siblings have had a complicated relationship for years. In her memoir, she referred to Morgan as her “ex-brother.” They seemingly have not spoken to each other since 1994.
