What did Mariah Carey say about her brother? Singer sued, to be questioned under oath over memoir claims 

Mariah Carey will be questioned under oath over her brother's claims that she lied about him in her autobiography, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, released in 2020. She will be deposed by her brother's lawyers on January 17, 2025, with the singer required to appear in person, and the whole hearing will be filmed.

As per The New York Post, the autobiography by the singer includes claims that her brother, Morgan, was violent with her and their family. Calling him her “ex-brother,” she wrote in her book:

“I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me. More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too.”

Mariah Carey also mentioned that Morgan used to deal drugs in the 1980s when he used to work in a New York nightclub. Morgan filed a lawsuit against his sister in 2021, claiming that the information in the book was “false and defamatory.” He also asserted that the text in the book caused him “emotional distress.”

“He is by no means envious of his sister’s enormous artistic and personal success, has enjoyed his own successes both professional and personal and has always wished her well. Morgan brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,” the lawsuit states.

However, Mariah Carey is adamant and claims that whatever she mentioned in her autobiography was true.

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The judge dismissed a large chunk of Morgan’s lawsuit against Mariah Carey in 2022

A year after Mariah’s brother filed the lawsuit, a judge dismissed a considerable chunk of the lawsuit in 2022. However, two sections were kept in consideration, one of which was the part where Mariah alleged that Morgan was a drug dealer. In a statement to The Sun, Richard Altman, Morgan’s lawyer, said:

“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.”

People Magazine also shared passages from the lawsuit in which Morgan said:

"This detail is conspicuously absent, which makes it clear that 'inspiration' was not on the agenda. Mariah's agenda merely focused on book sales and her image, all at my expense with no regard to the truth or my well-being during this world crisis."

As per The Daily Beast, the brother and sister have not had a good relationship since childhood. In her memoir, Mariah also mentioned that she has not been on talking terms with Morgan since 1994.

Mariah Carey, born in 1969, is nine years younger than her brother, Morgan. The siblings also had a third sister, Alison, who died at 63 in August 2024. Mariah also mentioned details about her relationship with Alison in her book and claimed that the two had a strained relationship for a long time.

In her book, she claimed that Alison drugged her and was struggling with drug abuse herself.

“My sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine, inflicted me with third-degree burns, and tried to sell me out to a pimp,” Mariah Carey claimed.

Alison, too, sued Mariah Carey in February 2021 for $1.25 million, asserting that her claims distressed her emotionally.

"Already struggling with the unspeakable trauma of her childhood and having her own children abandon her, she has become severely depressed and uncharacteristically tearful since the publication of the defendant's book and now struggles, after a long time clean, with alcohol abuse," Alison's lawsuit read.

However, when Alison died, Mariah Carey was the one to inform the masses about her death, as she revealed that both her mother and sister died on the same day.

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At the moment, Mariah has not spoken up about the recent development of the judge’s decision to question her under oath while being filmed.