The video the photo thief didn't show

Two unflattering photos clipped from a You Tube video have appeared on pages across the internet and in newspapers and magazines.  The worse use is in a 33-minute "documentary" allegedly made on the instructions of Mariah Carey that consists entirely of negative information about the now-deceased Alison, starting with Mariah's voice repeating her claim that Alison drugged her when she was 12 years old.

Not included is any mention of the horrific abuse Alison endured as a child at the hands of her mother, abuse that impacted the rest of her life and that her family has never acknowledged. 

Here is Alison describing some of the abuse in a video I made in 2022 which was posted on the web page of the British newspaper The Sun.

There was more in my video that the newspaper's editors evidently decided was too graphic to use. 

It has been viewed 53,000 times.

The anonymous person who made the "documentary" slamming Alison somehow missed this highly relevant information. 

Click on the link below and then hit "Continue to destination" to view my video. 

bit.ly/4jTGul7

Questions on Carey videos

 No denial from Mariah that she instructed someone to produce You Tube videos trashing her two siblings

By David Baker 

Posted on April 18, 2025

   A posting here on March 28 reported on a filing by Morgan Carey’s attorneys in his defamation claim against Mariah Carey on a motion requesting the court’s permission to file a second  amended complaint.

    The posting reported that a section of the proposed amended complaint contains a new paragraph in which the attorneys allege that a video posted on YouTube repeats many of the statements for which Morgan, is suing and that:  

  “On information and belief, the individual identified as responsible for this video, one “Lambily” is within the employment and control of Mariah, and the statements in it were made were her both personal and through Lambily”

   In a filing opposing Morgan’s amended complaint, Mariah’s attorneys write that :

 “….plaintiff’s [Morgan’s] recklessly alleges -- ‘on information  and belief ‘ and without a single supporting factual allegation  -  that Lambly is’within the employment and control of Mariah".

  This is true: Morgan’s filing presents no evidence that Mariah employs and controls the anonymous person who produced this video. 

  But there is something missing in the filing, and from Mariah herself: 

  A denial. A flat-out statement that she had absolutely nothing to do with the video, and that she became aware of it only after it was posted on You Tube.

  The fact that neither she or her lawyers have said that speaks volumes.

***

   So who is this ‘Lambily”,  and why has or she spent so much time and effort trashing Morgan and, in another video, the memory of Mariah’s deceased sister Alison?

   The You Tube channel contains only an email address; it does not identify the person behind the name. A message was sent on March 29 to that address, protesting that a photograph to which I hold the copyright that appears in the Alison video has been used without my permission and must be removed.

   It has not been removed. And no response has been received.  

*********

Request ignored

Video cruelly attacking Alison Carey still on a YouTube channel

By David Baker
Posted April 7, 2025
   There has been no response from “Lambily” — a person alleged to be acting on instructions from Mariah Carey — to my demand for payment for the retroactive use of an extremely unflattering photograph of Alison Carey for which I hold the copyright. 
   The photograph, clipped from a video I shot in 2021, was used without my permission and without credit on a YouTube channel that generates revenue from advertising. As of today the video had been viewed 338,000 times. 
   The request also demanded that the entire video slamming the deceased Alison be taken down.
   As of Monday afternoon it was still on the channel.

   Meanwhile, the image has appeared on webpages across the internet. With one exception, requests for its removal have been ignored.

******

It was not their to take

Unauthorized use of photo in video slamming

 Alison Carey brings payment demand

 Alison died in August. The video, allegedly made on

Mariah Carey's instructions, is evidence of her malice

By David Baker

Posted March 31, 2025

   A post on a YouTube channel that consists entirely of negative information, some of it decades old, about Alison contains an extremely unflattering  photo of her. 

  This image was lifted from a video I shot of Alison in October 2021 when she was very unwell. 

   Which means I hold the copyright to it.  Anyone wanting to use a copyright image is supposed to contact the copyright holder and ask for permission to use it, perhaps paying a fee for the permission. Which I would not have given to this person, or to the creators of several other sites where this image has been used.

   The person who, allegedly on Mariah’s Carey’s instructions, created this 35-minute “essay” slamming Alison five months after she died didn’t ask me for authorization to use it.

   So last week I sent an email, demanding that my image be taken out of this video or, if he or she is unwilling or unable to do that, that the entire video be taken down.

   I also demanded $500, for the retroactive use of my image, used without credit which, since January, has been viewed 304,000 times.

     I also sent demands for payment in various amounts to these other people who evidently think that because an image has appeared elsewhere -- likely also without permission  -- they can take it, in at least one case, for a web page that charges a fee. 

   These people would not take say, outdoor furniture from someone’s porch. But they think it’s okay to steal intellectual property. 

   As some people are now being reminded: It’s not.

********

Anonymous attacks

 In two You Tube videos, Mariah Carey 

slams her estranged brother and dead sister

The Alison video is titled "A Deep Dive 

 Into Mariah Carey's Toxic Older Sister"

By David Baker
Posted March 26, 2025

Updated March 28,2025

    Lawyers for Morgan Carey in his defamation claim against Mariah Carey have just filed a new complaint, which amends and adds to an earlier document that started the lawsuit.

   Some of it is a clean up - removing sections now irrelevant following a judge's rulings.  But one new section is highly significant: it refers to a video posted on You Tube in January titled  "A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey's Disturbing Older Brother." 

   Here are the relevant paragraphs from the lawsuit:

   

63. On information and belief, the individual identified as responsible for this video, one Lambily, is within the employment and control of Mariah, and the statements in it were made by her both personally through Lambily. 

64. On information and belief, the posting of this defamatory video is an attempt to damage Morgan’s reputation and credibility, as this action continues to move forward to discovery and tri

   Incredibly, in the video Mariah has re-published - in her own voice - statements over which she is currently facing a defamation lawsuit.  This will likely be claimed as further evidence of malice, which could greatly increase her exposure for damages. 

    The Video on Morgan Carey's - titled  "A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey's Disturbing Older Brother"- is on a You Tube channel which his attorneys allege is under the control of Mariah Carey. 

***** 

    But another video also posted in January about Mariah’s older sister, Alison, on the same channel also reveals Mariah Carey as a callous, vindictive individual.

    Alison is dead: Unlike Morgan Carey, she can’t defend herself against these repeated allegations of criminal conduct that Mariah claims happened 43 years ago, made without a shred of evidence.

    And this video was posted five months after Mariah Carey refused to grant Alison’s dying wish that after 30 years she speak at least once with her younger sister.

   Alison’s death at an early age - she was 63 - was sad.  But at least she has been spared more of the distress caused by the baseless accusations in Mariah’s 2020 memoir.  After a life of pain, it’s hoped that Alison is now resting in peace.

                                                       ***************

From the photo library - Oct. 2017

 

(Photo: Copyright David Baker. davidbaker@fastmail.com 

All rights reserved)

Final wishes denied

This is how I will remember Alison.

 

(Photos: Copyright David Baker. davidbaker@fastmail.com 

All rights reserved)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

For Alison, even in death, a final indignity

       By David Baker

      First posted Jan. 28, 2025

   In the last weeks of her life, Alison had two wishes:  First, that she reconnect with her sister Mariah, and second, that she be buried, not cremated.

   Both wishes were denied.  

   Despite being told that the sister she hadn’t spoken to since 1994 was close to death, there was no call from Mariah .

   I was in contact with Alison virtually every day for nine years, spending countless hours assisting her.  But not one of her family members asked me if I knew what she wanted when she was gone. That was even after I had told her only daughter that Alison had said when I asked abut her final wishes that she didn’t want to be cremated.  Her wish was for a final resting place in her own space on this earth.

  And now I have independently confirmed it:  she was cremated.

  I also know a memorial service was held for her.  But members of her so-called family didn’t tell me where or when it would  be.  Evidently, all those years when I was her sole support meant nothing to these callous people.

   All four of her children did come to her home shortly before she died and separately spent about five minutes at her bedside. 

   It was too late.  After they left I said to her wasn’t it nice that her eldest child, Shawn —  who had’t seen her since at least 2015 — was here.

   And looking confused, she said: “Shawn was here?”

   But I was able to tell her while she was still able to hear me and respond that she would not be forgotten.  And despite her family’s efforts to erase her from this earth, she won’t be;  her spirit will live on in my heart  — and through my unpublished collection of photos, videos and an audio recording of a 90-minute wide-raging conversation we had in 2015 in which she recalled harrowing details of the life-changing trauma inflicted on her by her mother when she was a child, and memories of her sister, her brother, her first husband and her four children.

   Against her wishes, Alison has been reduced to smoke and throw-away ashes.  But she will still be seen and heard.  After the nine years she was in my life, it’s the least I can do for her.

*******