Carey vs. Carey: The lawsuit drags on
By David Baker
Posted Dec. 14, 2025
It was in 2021 that Morgan Carey filed a lawsuit against his sister, Mariah Carey, alleging that she defamed him in her memoir, ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey.’
Four years later the case is apparently still active, although it has been delayed repeatedly by agreements between both sides for postponements of filing dates of documents and of hearings.
One of those hearings — a status conference — was scheduled for June 3. But, according to the judge, neither side appeared or asked the court for an adjournment.
The last posting on the court’s web page was on July 23. That is an order by the judge that all depositions be completed 90 days after her ruling on a request by Morgan for permission to file a second amended complaint. This one adds an allegation that Mariah was behind a 30-minute YouTube video - “A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey’s Disturbing Older Brother”, posted by ‘Lambily’ — which contains negative information about Morgan.
(A second video, “A Deep Dive into Mariah Carey’s Toxic Older Sister” was posted around the same time in December, also by ‘Lambily’ --- which is the name Mariah calls her fans.)
Meanwhile, ‘Lambily’ remans anonymous.
Whoever it is posted a new video in May, denying that Mariah had any input to these “documentaries.”
Presumably Morgan’s attorneys will have served YouTube with a subpoena, demanding that it identify everyone involved in the creation of these vile videos.
Mariah’s attorneys have denied that Mariah is behind the videos. But she apparently has not asked her ‘fan’ take them down; as of the date of this writing both videos were still on the platform.
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In November, 2024, Morgan Carey’s lawyers set a January 17 date for Mariah Carey to sit for a video taped deposition. But according to Morgan’s attorneys, Mariah has made repeated excuses — ‘she’s on tour; she isn’t in New York; she doesn’t want to go to Morgan’s attorneys’ offices for a deposition; she is unavailable"
The attorneys also say Mariah has failed to hand over documents they requested. She has produced “literally nothing,” they wrote in a filing.
Such obstructive conduct would normally be followed by a request to the judge to compel a response. But so far, that apparently has not been done.
Meanwhile, the judge has yet to rule on Morgan’s request to file the amended complaint. A ruling would normally be expected within 60 days of the ‘return date’ — which was May 1.
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Mariah seemingly took a delight in making serious, unsubstantiated allegations against her two siblings. So here is a story that, curiously, wasn’t in her memoir, and which I believe has never been revealed before.
The sisters’ father was Alfred Roy Carey. Alfred Roy was black. He had a car, a Porsche. And according to Alison, when the girls rode with him in this convertible and they passed people walking down the street, Mariah would duck down out of sight.
That, Alison told me, “...was because Mariah didn’t want to be seen by people she might know, riding in a car with a black man.”
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Since the 1990s, almost every story about Alison has stated, often in the first paragraph, that she was HIV positive.
This superposed health status became public when a columnist at a New York City tabloid newspaper reported that she had tested positive for the precursor to AIDS.
The problem was, it might not have been quite true.
Dozens of blood tests over the years each came back with the same result: the HIV virus was “undetectable.” Even after, against her doctor’s advice, she stopped taking an antiretroviral medication, the tests continued to be negative.
In addition, Alison gave birth several times after the initial diagnosis; none of her children tested positive.
Alison’s cause of death was congestive heart failure, a condition that was first diagnosed several years ago.
But becase of that newspaper’s gross invasion of privacy, Alison was publicly branded with a disease that, for all intents, she did not have — and lived with the resulting stigma to the end of her life.
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