Cardi B recently prevailed in a lawsuit for copyright infringement brought against tattoo artist Kevin Michael Brophy over the cover art for her 2016 Gangsta B*tch Music Vol.
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1 mixtape CD. According to TMZ, Cardi filed a lawsuit in 2017 over a tattoo on a woman who was featured on the rapper’s 2016 mixtape album cover. On the cover, the WAP hitmaker might be seen seated in a limo with a man’s head in front of her knees.
The album cover showed a tiger and snake tattoo on the man’s back, even though the camera obscures his face. The model’s tattoo matched his own, according to Brophy, who claimed that the cover was a “misappropriation of his image.”
While the attorneys for both parties agreed that the altered body art on the record cover was widely available online, Brophy’s attorney contended that the image led many people to believe the figure was Brophy.
The tattoo model had before testified in court that the cover art was “against everything” he believed in:
It appears that I am engaging in or*l s*x with a person who is not my spouse or romantic partner, and this is an impression that I have never, ever approved of. This goes against everything I believe in as a father of two, a devoted husband, and a man of religion, and I would never approve of anything like this.
Brophy’s attorneys said that Cardi B’s cover caused him “anxiety and reputational loss,” and the man asked for $5 million in compensation.
The Whole Story of Kevin Michael Brophy
Kevin Michael Brophy is a tattoo model that works as the marketing manager for the RVCA line of surf and skateboard gear in Newport Beach, California. Brophy stated that he works for a “socially responsible surf and lifestyle” company in an interview with the Courthouse News Service.
When he filed a lawsuit against Cardi B for the tattoo design on the Gangsta B*tch Music Vol. 1 mixtape album cover, Brophy gained notoriety. Brophy is not active on any public social media platforms, therefore little is known about his private life.
What did Cardi B have to say on the legal dispute involving the tattoo and the album cover?
Cardi B won her legal dispute against Kevin Michael Brophy over the tattoo art on the cover of her 2016 mixtape album. Brophy’s charges were contested by the rapper’s lawyer, Peter J. Anderson, who also said that mistaking the guy for the model on Cardi’s album cover was “unlikely”:
“That’s a hairy black person, and that’s a shaven white man.”
According to The Rolling Stone, Anderson also added that he could not name “any individual, any member of the public, or any acquaintance who” mistaken Brophy for the guy on Cardi’s album cover:
“You imposed that harm on yourself.” He did this by identifying himself as the person in the photograph when no one else had.”
The defense team additionally underlined that the tattoos displayed on the model in Cardi’s album were discovered on Google but changed into a “newly made piece of art” following a series of altercations.
On Friday, a federal jury concluded in Cardi B’s favor, stating that the cover image did not distract from Brophy’s look. While speaking to Rolling Stone, the rapper’s attorney referred to the parties involved as “gracious winners,” and revealed that Michael Brophy and Cardi B shook hands after the judgment.
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