Soul diva Mariah Carey has been reported to be suing her former Personal Assistant for $3million, whom she said after she sacked her, she has constantly called her asking for $8million threatening to release an “Embarrassing video” of her.
According to the report by TMZ, Mariah Carey who said she felt betrayed by her former personal assistant, said her ex-PA secretly recorded her doing “embarrassing” things and then threatening to release the videos unless the singer coughed up $8 million
TMZ said they obtained a copy of a lawsuit Mariah Carey filed against the said PA known as Lianna Azarian.
According to the filed report, Mariah Carey said she hired Azarian back in March 2015 as an Executive Assistant. She then claims it wasn’t long before Azarian went to town with her credit card, buying personal stuff and also claiming to retailers she was buying things for Mariah, trading the singer’s goodwill to get deep discounts.
Mariah Carey says unbeknownst to her, Azarian was secretly filming her “personal activities” which would be “embarrassing,” and extremely damaging both personally and professionally if revealed.
Mariah says Azarian showed some of the videos to friends, saying if she was ever fired she’d sell them.
Carey claims she was paying Azarian as much as $327,000 a year, but ended up firing her in November 2017, and that’s when she claims the blackmail began.
Carey says Azarian demanded $8 million and if she didn’t get it she’d release videos and other damaging information.
TMZ also reported that the lawsuit does not say what’s on the videos although some are described as “intimate.”
Carey says she’s demanded the videos and other evidence of criminal activity back, to no avail. She’s suing for unspecified damages, but wants more than $3 million