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Cardi B is being sued for $4,400,000 after ‘tainting’ dad’s back tattoo with raunchy album cover-Metro News Reporter and Jonathan Landrum Jr-Entertainment – Metro
It now features on a raunchy album cover/
Kevin Brophy’s tattoo and rapper Cardi B, who replicated the image on her album cover (Pictures: Supplied/AP)
Cardi B is being sued for £4.4million by a tattoo fan after his inkings were used for album artwork that showed a man with his head between her legs.
Kevin Brophy says the US rapper infringed his copyright because his distinctive design – of a tiger fighting a snake – was edited onto the back of the male model without his consent.
He says when he saw the cover of her 2016 mixtape Gangsta B**** Music Vol 1, he felt that his body art had been turned from a ‘Michelangelo piece’ to something ‘raunchy and disgusting’.
‘It was something I took a lot of pride in,’ he added. ‘Now, that image feels devalued. I feel robbed.’
Father-of-two Mr Brophy’s wife even asked him whether he had posed for the image, lawyer A Barry Cappello told a court in California. ‘Their life has been disrupted,’ he said as WAP singer Cardi, 30, real name Belcalis Almanzar, watched from the defence side.
Mr Brophy alleged the cover artist had used a snap he found in an online search for back tattoos. He added he sent a cease and desist letter but got no reply.
But in court filings the rapper argued artist Timm Gooden used only a ‘small portion’ of the tattoo without her knowledge.
Her defence argued fair use, and said Mr Brophy and the cover image are unrelated – pointing out the mixtape model is black, while Mr Brophy is white, and the tattoos on his neck were not shown.
Her lawyer Peter Anderson added: ‘Brophy’s face wasn’t on the mixtape. It has nothing to do with Brophy.’
Last month, Cardi was told to undergo community service for a 2018 strip club assault.
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