Superstar Mariah Carey will soon face questioning under oath about the explosive claims she made in her memoir concerning her estranged brother Morgan Carey. A date has been set for the singer’s in-person videotaped deposition on January 17th at the law offices of her brother’s legal team in New York. This comes just weeks after the tragic deaths of their mother Patricia and sister Alison.
In her 2020 autobiography “The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” the 55-year-old Grammy winner made several salacious allegations about her 64-year-old sibling. Mariah asserted that Morgan had acted violently against her and their family, engaged in drug sales while working at a New York nightclub in the 1980s, and hinted at his incarceration.
“I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me,” Mariah wrote. “More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too.” She also described Morgan as her “sometimes drug-dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk brother,”** insinuating he had been in prison.
Morgan, who has not spoken to Mariah since 1994, immediately filed a lawsuit against her last March. He vehemently denied all of his sister’s claims, calling them “false and defamatory, personally invasive and painful,” and saying they caused him “serious damage” to his reputation.
“[Morgan] brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,” the lawsuit stated. “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.”
Last year, a judge dismissed most of the lawsuit, but he allowed two crucial parts to proceed: the allegations that Morgan was a drug dealer and the suggestion that he had served time in prison.
Now, lawyers for Morgan will have the opportunity to grill Mariah extensively about the basis for these explosive allegations. They have demanded that the “Fantasy” singer provide the full names and addresses of the “well-known photographer” and “well-known hairdresser,” who she claims told her that her brother dealt drugs.
This latest legal battle comes just over two months since Mariah and Morgan tragically lost both their mother Patricia and their sister Alison on the same day. Alison, 63, had also filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against Mariah over the memoir, claiming it contained lies about her “pimping” out a 12-year-old Mariah and giving her Valium.
In a statement, Morgan’s lawyer Richard Altman expressed his dismay that Mariah “manufactured disparaging facts” about his client, all while he was “still mourning the deaths of his sister and mother.”
“More dishearteningly, Mariah, having inflicted significant harm on Morgan through her words, now pretends to be the victim,” Altman expressed. “In the end, not only will Mariah have to answer questions under oath about how she intentionally harmed her brother, but the public will learn the real truth behind their relationship and who the real victim is.”
As the Carey family continues to grapple with these deep-seated tensions and tragedies, the spotlight is once again shining on the dark underbelly of one of music’s most acclaimed dynasties. With Mariah soon to face questioning, the public may finally get a glimpse into this seemingly irreparable rift.