Cardi B Pleads Guilty to Charges from Strip Club Brawl

Cardi B pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges on admitting she paid a friend $5,000 to beat up a woman who worked at a Queens strip club in 2018. Cardi admitted in court to sending her friend an Instagram message offering to pay her $5,000 to attack the victim on her behalf, and her pal agreed to do it. Cardi B also admitted to striking the bartender, pulling her hair and slamming her head into the bar during the attack in August 2018.

The 29-year-old hip-hop star was placed on a three-year order of protection and sentenced to 15 days’ community service over a brawl in which she hurled a hookah at two bartender sisters and ordered a pal to attack one of them for supposedly sleeping with her husband.

She had previously faced 12 charges including two felony counts of attempted assault stemming from her alleged involvement in the attack on the sisters, identified as Jade and Baddie G., at the Flushing strip club Angels.

Asked by Queens Supreme Court Justice Michelle Johnson if she understood the terms of her plea agreement, the rapper answered “Yes” in a quiet voice.“

Her lawyer, Drew Findling, said she’d accepted the plea deal — after previously rejecting one in 2020 —  in effort to simply move on with her life.