Mariah Carey sued by elder sister

Latter demands $1.25m for ‘emotional distress’

Singer Mariah Carey has allegedly been sued by her sister Alison A Carey in New York over the content shared in the songstress’s memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey. Alison described her relationship with Mariah as “deeply estranged,” reported Variety.

The lawsuit carried by Alison, filed on Monday in NYC Supreme Court, requested for minimum of $1.25 million for “the infliction of immense emotional distress caused by defendant’s heartless, vicious, vindictive, despicable and totally unnecessary public humiliation of defendant’s already profoundly damaged older sister.”

The legal suit states that the We Belong Together hit maker “callously dismisses plaintiff as her ‘ex’ sister. But instead of saying no more than that, defendant used her book to humiliate and embarrass plaintiff as stories about the memoir appeared in newspapers around the world, on TV and across the Internet, most of them with headlines repeating defendant’s allegations — all of them published without giving plaintiff any opportunity to respond.”

Carey had some words of admiration as well as sympathy for her sister, describing her as “deeply wounded” and “the most brilliant and broken person I have ever known,” but the autobiography rather exposes Alison to drugs and older men when Mariah was 12 and Alison 20.

Released in late September, The Meaning of Mariah Carey debuted at the top spot on the New York Times’ list of nonfiction bestsellers in early October.