“It looks like I’m giving oral sex to somebody that’s not my wife, somebody that’s not my partner, and an image that I never signed off on, ever."
After a five-year legal batter, Costa Mesa surfer, tattoo model and RVCA team manager Mike Brophy has lost his five-million dollar lawsuit against Afro-Latinx rapper Cardi B despite his back art being used on the cover of her 2016 album Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1.
The album’s cover shows a tattooed man eating hell out of Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar aka Cardi B’s “wet ass pussy”, while she examines the photographer with a quizzical eye, apparently able to have orgasms indefinitely until physical exhaustion intervenes.
Brophy’s lawyer told the court his client’s life had been “disrupted” and that the album cover turned his “Michelangelo piece” into something “raunchy and disgusting.”
“It looks like I’m giving oral sex to somebody that’s not my wife, somebody that’s not my partner, and an image that I never signed off on, ever,” Brophy told the court. “Being a father of two and a devoted husband and a man of faith as well, this goes against everything that I stand for, and I would never ever sign off on something like this.
“For me, it was something I took a lot of pride in… Now, that image feels devalued. I feel robbed. I feel completely disregarded. There’s a lot of things I would like to be spending time on. But the only way to get this removed was to come here to this courtroom.”
Yeah, well, on Friday a Santa Ana jury ruled the cover didn’t “cast Brophy in a false light or constitute a misappropriation of his likeness.”
Cardi B said the album cover’s graphic designer Tim Gooden only used “a small portion” of Brophy’s tatts and that the cover use was “transformative fair use of Brophy’s likeness.”
Exiting the court, Brophy reportedly told his nemesis, “At the end of the day, I do respect you as an artist.”
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this is my second trip back…re-read!
I would TOT-ally eat hell out of Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar aka Cardi B’s “wet ass pussy”…
Music has clearly devolved
Unless her WAP is actually located on her stomach, then no, he ain’t, if you examine that image as little more critically.
Wet Ass Paunch
The Holy Bible is GOD’S WORD…
You should not tattoo your body…
CD, didn’t you send me big file on D. Metz some time back?
My das could beat your dad in a fight.
post toasts it!
Is Tommy Bolin hiding in that video?
disney-plus …knives out!
Afro-Latinx? WTF?
Made up words to describe something that’s immaterial?
Someone not named Brophy put that big tiger snake, awesome as Michelangelo, tattoo on his back. That tattoo artist should sue Brophy for 2.5 million for not giving him any credit for that snake and ball and tiger and fish and snail (is that a snail?) tattoo.
This story reminds me of the nirvana man-baby and his judicial quest to right all the wrongs brought upon him from being the most famous naked infant of the 90s.
Seems like he did sign a release but now wants a bigger cut. Seller’s remorse and now presumably has to
pay costs that are more than his initial
fee for the session. Whoops.
Doesn’t the Bible have something about not marking one’s skin or something?
I only read non-fiction.
Are you 14?
Heads up derek, shart attack “surfing” story hitting the news!
Wow. Well…
DR: We removed our runways especially for you…love, Joni Mitchell and Grace Slick
dog walkers all over my ‘hood/
hylan’s blonde on blonge/
plastic bags are outlawed…
Anyone know any Brophys’ that aren’t complete wanktards?
Homies probably just sore he didn’t actually get to have a good ol munch and still copped an earful from his dry ass god fearing wife
Tatts life