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Mariah Carey will reportedly face questions from a team of her brother’s lawyers over allegations she made in her memoir surrounding her estranged sibling. The legendary singer is expected to be deposed on Jan. 17 after an ongoing court case filed by brother Morgan in 2021 after the release of Carey’s memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, according to the U.S. Sun. Morgan claims Carey lied in her memoir when she alleged Morgan was violent toward her and sold drugs in a New York nightclub. The pair have reportedly not spoken since 1994. “I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me,” she wrote. “More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too.” Morgan has denied the accusations and says Carey promoted “false and defamatory, personally invasive and painful” allegations about her brother. “[Morgan] brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,” the lawsuit said, according to the Sun. Though a judge dismissed the majority of the lawsuit in 2022, two sections were allowed to move on, including the claims he was a drug dealer. As well as a videotaped deposition under oath, lawyers are expected to demand evidence from Carey to support her allegations. “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,” Morgan’s lawyer, Richard Altman, told the Sun.
