T.I.’s ‘Virginity Exams’ On Daughter Deyjah Harris Dominated As Inadmissable Proof In Trial In opposition to MGA Leisure

A federal decide has issued a “key victory” in T.I. and Tiny Harris’ civil trial towards MGA Leisure. As reported by Rolling Stone, the trial will exclude the usage of “virginity checks” initiated by the rapper on his daughter Deyjah Harris.

T.I. and Tiny need “financial justice” after a toy firm made “hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” off a line of dolls allegedly impressed by the OMG Girlz group the couple launched in 2009 https://t.co/5113ccm7YX

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 19, 2023

MGA Leisure Just lately Filed A Movement To Use The Exams As Proof In The Trial

In response to the outlet, MGA Leisure filed a movement Thursday night time. And “sought the courtroom’s permission to indicate jurors” clips of “the household strife” that ensued after T.I. revealed that he took his daughter to the gynecologist to substantiate that her hymen was nonetheless intact. The moments had been recorded on the couple’s VH1 actuality present T.I. & Tiny: Buddies & Household Hustle.

I say, ‘Look, Doc, she don’t trip no horses, she don’t trip no bike, she don’t play no sports activities. Simply examine the hymen, please, and provides me again my outcomes expeditiously.”

T.I. shares that he goes to the gynecologist yearly with daughter Deyjah to make sure her hymen remains to be intact 😳https://t.co/VSjnDd9S1S pic.twitter.com/IPZsHz8dSW

— MadameNoire (@MadameNoire) November 6, 2019

On the time, the rapper acquired main backlash from viewers. And he later defined that he was “joking,” including that his feedback had been “misconstrued” by viewers.

The decide additionally dominated that the trial will exclude different proof from the rapper’s private life. This consists of his “hashish use.”

An MGA lawyer argued that the clips of each issues be used within the trial. And added that the clips present why the corporate wouldn’t mannequin their “L.O.L Shock OMG” dolls after the household.

Opposing counsel has been in a position to play video after video after video, not solely of the OMG Girlz, but additionally your entire household wanting good, wanting just like the all-American household, and there are such a lot of movies on the market on social media, so many causes that MGA wouldn’t prefer to make a doll line off these of us, that it’s simply making a misimpression for the jury.

U.S. District Court docket Choose James V. Selna denied the movement. And defined that the clips had been aired after the L.O.L Shock OMG dolls had been launched. And added that movies of T.I.’s hashish use can be “not related to any problem on this case.”

Selna’s newest determination comes after he “beforehand excluded proof about T.I.’s prison historical past.” In response to Rolling Stone, the decide “needed to keep away from any ‘sliming’ of the events concerned within the civil case.”

Extra About The Harris’ Case In opposition to MGA Leisure

In response to the outlet, the couple hasn’t put a determine quantity on the financial quantity they’re looking for. However they’ve defined that MGA has made “hundreds of thousands” from stealing the OMG Girlz “title, picture & commerce gown.”

Coming quickly to the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, California: Rapper T.I. and his spouse, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, are going to trial to defend the mental property rights of the previous lady rap group OMG Girlz in a lawsuit with toymaker MGA Leisure. pic.twitter.com/5yTN39AXHA

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 5, 2023

Tiny Harris took the stand on Thursday and shared her ideas concerning the similarities between the lady group and the dolls.

This doll is simply too acquainted. The outfit for me is an enormous, huge deal. I wouldn’t be right here if it wasn’t the OMG model, all of the completely different coincidences, the outfit we created. This explicit outfit was designed, created, handmade, if you’ll, for the ladies’ tour… I’m merely stating that this model was ripped off.

Jennifer Keller, a lawyer for MGA Leisure responded.

This case is about greed. That’s what it’s about. It’s a shakedown.

My @LAmag roundup on the primary few days of @MGAEnt v. @Tip, a authorized battle over @Zonnique’s OMG Girlz and MGA’s OMG Dolls. https://t.co/4Rm034lnfs

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 21, 2023

T.I. is anticipated to take the stand someday this week, as reported by Rolling Stone.