Unflattering photo brings claim

British newspaper faces my copyright

 lawsuit over unauthorized photos of Alison

By David Baker
Posted Jan. 27, 2026

    When Alison and her mother died on the same day in August 2024 it got a lot of media attention.  A search found stories here in the U.S, in the U.K. and in several other countries around the world.

   Along with these stories many of them used photographs, some taken when Alison and her sister were children, and others more recently.

   One of those recent photos were two stills that someone lifted from a video I recorded in 2021 for a GoFundMe page of Alison asking for donations for replacement teeth. 

   These extremely unflattering images  - which I would never have licensed for publication - was then screen-grabbed by someone, posted on the Web and used by numerous news outlets to accompany those stories - all without my permission and without any photo credit. 

   An editor at one of those publications, the Daily Mail, immediately acknowledged the paper’s unauthorized use when contacted and offered payment. 

   But the management of another British newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which, like most of them, also has a site on the internet, ignored two requests for payment.  This after it had run the two photos with four stories in at least three of its publications in the two days after Alison died. 

   So earlier this month I decided I’d had enough of this wholesale theft of my intellectual property; on January 25. representing myself, I filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court, New York City against Reach PLC, the company that publishes dozens of newspapers in Britain, including the Mirror, the Daily Express and a celebrity magazine, OK! 

   In addition to a request for nominal payment for the photos,  I also demanding putative damages of at least $25,000.

   Punitive damages are intended to be a penalty - the equivalent of a fine - and also to deter others for the same conduct. My hope is that publishers who routinely publish photos without permission will now think twice before stealing something they have no right to print. 

  My complaint can be read or downloaded from my Dropbox account with this link:

https://bit.ly/45xypOr

   The suit will be served on the defendants next week. They will then have 20 days to file a response.

Depositios pending

 Carey vs Carey lawsuit update

 By David Baker

January 23, 2026

   The judge in Morgan’s defamation claim against Mariah has ruled on his motion for permission to file a second amended complaint.

   It’s a split decision; Morgan wanted to add to as a defendant add the owner of a You Tube channel - listed as “Lambily”.

   Morgan claims that a 30-minute video posted on the channel defames him; it repeats, in part, some of the same allegedly defamatory statements for which he is suing Mariah in the current lawsuit.

   Writing in her decision, Leslie A. Stroth said Morgan had presented no evidence to support his claim that “Lambily’ was in the  employ or control” of  Mariah or that she is connected to the video.

   It’s not known if Morgan has subpoenaed You Tube for the identity of ‘Lambily’’, which, if granted, might allow him to add this person as a defeated in his claim.

  The judge allowed a part of the complaint that removes as defendants the publishers of Mariah’s memoir that had earlier been denied earlier in the case. But the current judge denied Morgan’s request to add another claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress as duplicative.

  Stroth had earlier ordered that depositions in the case be completed within 90 days of this new decision -  meaning by April 15. So far, partly due to Mariah’s repeated excuses, no depositions have been taken.

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News briefs

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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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.

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   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.  

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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.

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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.

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