Mariah Carey’s sister has field a $1.25m lawsuit against the singer over the contents of her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
According to a two-page complaint filed Monday in New York Supreme Court, Alison Carey is seeking the money for Mariah’s “heartless, vicious, vindictive, despicable and totally unnecessary public humiliation” of her in the book.
Alison, who is representing herself in the lawsuit, says in the chapter titled “Dandelion Tea,” Mariah details serious allegations against her character.
In the book, Mariah accuses her older sister of giving her Valium when she was 12, trying to “pimp her out,” and of throwing a cup of boiling-hot tea on her causing third-degree burns.
According to Alison, she is “permanently damaged as a result of being forced by Mariah Carey and their mother, while a pre-teen, to attend terrifying middle-of-the-night satanic worship meetings that included ritual sacrifices and sexual activity.”
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She accused the singer of using her “status as a public figure to attack her penniless sister” in order to promote her book by creating “sensational” headlines.
She also said she suffers from a traumatic brain injury from a brutal attack during an unsolved home invasion in 2015 that left her with short-term memory loss and permanently damaged vision in one eye.
Alison, who is representing herself, sent a settlement offer to the singer’s attorneys, but has yet to receive a response.