"CARDI B CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE, KATY PERRY'S $15M MANSION MAYHEM & JULIO FOOLIO'S KILLER WANTS BOND"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Friday, August twenty ninth, twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Cardi B took the stand and actually said with a straight face that she was defending herself when she spit on her security guard and attacked her with design her fingernails, because nothing says self defense like saliva. Katie Perry wants you to know she's seeking justice in her fight to take a fifteen million dollar mansion from the family of a veteran who was literally dying when he supposedly signed the contract. California Girls Indeed, and the woman accused of orchestrating rapper Julio Fulio's assassination at his birthday party wants out on bond because apparently arranging a rapper's execution is a bondable offense in Florida. Plus sentencing updates on the yaker who faked his death and the trooper who killed a teenager while speeding to a non emergency. All that and more on today's Celebrity Trials. Let's start with the Cardi B trial, where yesterday the rapper herself took the stand and delivered a master class in how not to testify in your own defense. Carti real name Belcalis Almanzar, is being sued by former security guard Immani Ellis for assault, battery, and infliction of emotional distress stemming from a February twenty

1:35 twenty incident at Carti's Beverly Hills home. Ellis testified earlier this week that Cardi attacked her unprovoked, spit on her, used racial slurs, and struck her with those weaponized acrylic nails. Multiple witnesses corroborated Ellis's version, but yesterday Carti told a very different story. According to Carti's testimony, Ellis was the aggressor. The security guard allegedly came at her aggressively and got in her face. Carti claims she was simply defending herself, defending herself by spitting on someone. Make it make sense. Here's Carti's version. Ellis was being disrespectful and challenging her authority.

2:16 When Carti tried to address the situation, Ellis allegedly stepped toward her in a threatening manner. So naturally, Carti's response was to spit on her, because that's what you do in self defense. Situations you expectorate on your attacker. Defense attorney Alan Jackson tried to paint this as a brief altercation, that Ellis is blowing out of proportion for money. He had Carti testify about her difficult childhood, her rise from stripper to superstar, how hard she works. Classic celebrity defense. I had a hard life, so I should be allowed to assault employees. But prosecutor James Martinez wasn't having it. On cross examination, he got Carti to admit she did spit on Ellis, she did strike Ellis with her nails.

2:59 She did I'd use profanity during the incident. She never called police if she truly felt threatened. She never filed a complaint about Ellis's supposed aggression. She continued employing Ellis for days after this supposedly threatening incident. That last one's the killer. If your security guard attacks you, do you keep them on payroll or do you immediately fire them and hire someone who won't aggressively come at you. The jury also heard from two more witnesses yesterday. Marcus Johnson, another security guard, stuck to his story that Carti was the aggressor, but under pressure from the defense, he admitted he didn't see who made first physical contact. Then came Maria Santos, Carti's former assistant, who'd previously testified she saw Ellis crying with scratches yesterday. The defense got her to admit she didn't actually see the altercation itself, just the aftermath.

3:51 But here's what nobody can explain away the spit. Multiple witnesses saw Carti's spit on Ellis. Carti herself admits she spited ou Ellis. There is no self defense justification for spitting on someone. It's not protecting yourself, it's not preventing harm. It's pure humiliation and assault. The defense is trying to argue that even if Cardi did assault Ellis, the damages should be minimal. No medical bills, no therapy receipts, no lost wages. But that's not the point. The point is that Cardi, b worth eighty million dollars, thought she could spit on and attack her employee because she was disrespectful. That's not how employment works, that's not how human dignity works.

4:35 You don't get to assault people because they challenge your authority. This isn't the Bronx streets. This is Beverly Hills, and even there, you can't spit on your bodyguard. Closing arguments are set for Monday. The jury will then decide whether being a successful rapper gives you the right to treat employees like punching bags. My prediction, Cardi loses. The spit seals it. You can maybe explain away push or even striking as heat of the moment, but spitting that's deliberate degradation. That's showing someone there beneath you, literally marking them with your bodily fluids. The jury will see through the self defense nonsense and hold Cardi accountable. The only question is how much it'll cost her. Now, let's talk about Katy Perry's real estate nightmare that's turned into a moral nightmare.

5:27 The pop star and her actor husband Orlando Bloom are in court fighting for a fifteen million dollar Montecito mansion they claim they rightfully purchased. The seller's family says the contract should be voided because the man who signed it was dying of Huntington's disease and wasn't mentally competent. This week, Perry herself testified that she's a seeking justice in this case, justice for a millionaire pop star trying to take a house from a dying veteran's family. Here's the backstory. Carl Westcott, an eighty four year old veteran and six cessful businessman, owned this gorgeous estate in Montecito. That's the ultra wealthy enclave where Oprah and Prince Harry live. In July twenty twenty, in the middle of the pandemic, Westcott allegedly agreed to sell the property to Perry and Bloom for fifteen million dollars.

6:17 The contract was signed, supposedly, and the deal was set to close. But here's where it gets dark. Westcott was suffering from Huntington's disease, a degenerative brain disorder that affects cognitive function, decision making, and judgment. His family says he wasn't competent to sell anything. Days after supposedly signing the contract, Westcott tried to back out. His family says when his medication was adjusted and he had moments of clarity, he realized what had happened and wanted to cancel the sale. Perry and Bloom said, no, a deal's a deal. They sued to force the sale. This week in court, Perry testified that she and Orlando had been searching for the perfect family home. They fell in love with this property made plans for their future there. She painted herself as the victim of a seller trying to renege on a legitimate contract. But Westcott's son, Chart testified that his father was severely impaired. By July twenty twenty. He was confused, having delusions, unable to manage basic affairs. The family had been in the process of getting conservatorship when this sale happened.

7:25 The defense presented medical records showing Westcott's cognitive decline, brain scans showing the damage from Huntington's testimony from doctors about how the disease affects decision making capacity. Perry's team argues none of that matters. The contract was signed, Westcott was represented by a real estate agent. The deal should stand. Think about that argument. It doesn't matter if someone's brain is deteriorating, doesn't matter if they have a fatal neurological disease. If you can get them to sign on the dotted line, the house is yours. The real estate agent, Christine Navoros, testified she believed Westcott was competent during negotiations, but she also admitted she's not a doctor, has no training in cognitive assessment, and stood to make a massive commission from this sale. Here's what really happened. Perry and Bloom wanted this house. They found out an elderly owner might sell.

8:20 They pushed through a deal during the pandemic when normal safeguards were relaxed, and when the dying man tried to back out, they sued to force it through. Carl Westcott is dead now died in twenty twenty two from Huntington's never got to see how this played out. His family is fighting to honor his wishes and void a sale he tried to cancel when his dying brain had moments of clarity. But Katy Perry needs justice. The woman worth four hundred million dollars needs justice in taking a home from a dead veteran's family. The judge will decide in the coming weeks whether the contract stands, whether a signature from someone with generative brain disease is binding, whether pop stars get to profit from the confused decisions of dying men.

9:07 This is your California justice system, folks, where celebrities can literally take advantage of people with brain diseases and call it a real estate transaction. Perry's testimony about seeking justice. The only injustice here is that she's trying to enforce a contract signed by a man whose brain was being destroyed by disease. But hey, she needs a new mansion for her family, and apparently Carl Westcott's families need to honor their dying father's wishes. Matters less than Katie Perry's house hunt. We'll be right back with updates on rapper Julio Fulio's assassination and two sentencings that prove sometimes the system actually works. Now to Jacksonville, where the woman accused of orchestrating rapper Juliofulio's murder wants out on bond because apparently setting up a rapper's assassination is the kind of thing you should be allowed to do from home while awaiting trial. Julio Folio real name Charles Jones, was gunned down at a Tampa holiday inn on June twenty third while celebrating his twenty sixth birthday. Surveillance footage shows three shooters ambushing him in the parking lot, firing multiple rounds.

10:33 He died trying to celebrate another year of life he'd never complete. Alicia Andrews is charged with being the mastermind. Prosecutors say she tracked Fulio's movements through social media, coordinated with the shooters, and set up the kill first degree murder charges. This week, Andrews's attorney filed for bond, arguing she's not a flight risk and poses no danger to the community. No danger to the community. She allegedly orchestrated a public assassination at a hotel, but sure, no danger. The defense tried a novel approach. They wanted to argue Andrews was a victim of domestic violence, that she was controlled by others in the conspiracy. Judge Tatiana Salvador shut that down immediately. You don't get to play victim when you're accused of planning murder. Here's what's really twisted. Two of Andrews's alleged co conspirators are out on bond. Isaiah Chance and Tavon Stevens, both charged in the murder plot, were released on two hundred fifty thousand dollars bonds. So the actual shooters are walking free while the alleged mastermind sits in jail. Make that make sense? The state argues Andrews is the most dangerous because she was the planner.

11:46 She used Instagram to track Fulio's location when he posted that he was at the Holiday Inn after being kicked out of an Airbnb for exceeding occupancy, Andrews allegedly texted the shooters the address he's at the Holiday Inn on Fowler Avenue. Those texts are the state's smoking gun, along with surveillance footage showing Andrews's car near the scene, cell phone towers placing her in communication with the shooters before, during, and after the murder. But Andrews wants to go home. Her attorney argues, she's a mother, has ties to the community. Won't flee. You know who else had ties to the community, Julio folio until Andrews allegedly had him executed in a hotel parking lot. The bond hearing is set for next week.

12:33 The judge will decide if someone accused of social media stalking and murder coordination gets to await trial at home. Meanwhile, Fulio's mother, Sandria Mobli, has to bury her son. His kids have to grow up without a father, his fans lost an artist, all because of what prosecutors say was a Jacksonville gang war that Andrews turned into a birthday massacre. The judge hasn't ruled yet on bond, but here's my prediction. She stays in jail. The coordination, the planning, the use of social media to hunt someone down. That's not impulse. That's calculation, and calculated killers don't get bond. Quick updates on two cases we've been following. First, Ryan Borgwart, the Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning to run off with a woman in Eastern Europe. Remember this sociopath left his wife and three kids thinking he was dead while he was shacking up in Uzbekistan. Today he was sentenced.

13:32 The judge gave him six months in jail and three years probation six months for traumatizing his children, wasting thirty five thousand dollars in search resources, and perpetrating a fraud that lasted fifty four days. He also has to pay full restitution for the search costs. But six months. His kids thought he was dead for two months and he gets six months. Judge Daniel Dorriff said he considered the psychological damage to the children, but also Borgwart's lack of prior record and his eventual cooperation. Cooperation. He only came back because they caught him. That's not cooperation, that's surrender. Borgwart cried during sentencing, said he was deeply sorry. Sorry he got caught is more like it. You don't fake your death and flee to Eastern Europe if you have the capacity for genuine remorse. His wife wasn't in court.

14:23 The divorce is proceeding. Those kids will need therapy forever, and daddy will be out in six months, probably less, with good behavior. Second sentencing AJ Scott, the Georgia state trooper who killed seventeen year old Sabriel Powell while speeding ninety miles per hour to a non emergency call. The jury found him guilty of vehicular homicide and violating his oath of office. Today, Judge James Newsom sentenced him to fifteen years, with five to serve in prison, the rest on probation five years for killing a teenager because he couldn't be bothered to use lights and sirens while going ninety in a sixth The judge said he considered Scott's service as a law enforcement officer, but had to balance that with the tragic and preventable death of Sabriel Powell.

15:11 Sabriel's mother, Tiffany Powell, gave a victim impact statement. He took my baby, he took her future, He took her from us because he thought his badge meant the rules didn't apply to him. Scott will appeal, of course. His attorney says the sentence is too harsh for what was essentially an accident, an accident. Choosing to drive ninety without emergency signals isn't an accident. It's a choice, a choice that killed a seventeen year old girl. At least Scott got prison time. That's more than most cops get for killing civilians. But five years for a life. Sabriel Powell would be twenty now, maybe in college, maybe starting a career. Instead, she's gone and her killer will be out before she would have graduated. That's Celebrity Trials for Friday, August twenty ninth. Now, before you go into your Labor Day weekend, I need to warn you about what's coming. Tomorrow. We begin our three day Labor Day Family Massacre series. Three fathers who annihilated their families. Three days of the darkest content we've ever presented content warning. These episodes contain extremely graphic descriptions of violence against children and pregnant women. We'll be discussing the murders of multiple children, including toddlers and infants. The details are taken from court records and autopsies. They are disturbing and traumatic. Saturday Chris Watts, who strangled his pregnant wife and smothered his daughters before stuffing them into oil tanks.

16:44 Sunday John List, who executed his entire family in their mansion and disappeared for eighteen years. Monday Labor Day Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret who blamed hippies for massacring his family. These are not easy at they're not entertaining. They're examinations of evil that walks among us. If you have children, if you've experienced family violence, if you're in a vulnerable state, maybe skip this weekend. But if you want to understand how fathers become family annihilators, how the people we trust most become the greatest danger, join us. The content warning is real. This is the darkest material we've covered, but sometimes we need to look evil in the face to recognize it when it's sitting at our dinner table. I'm read Carter. Regular programming returns Tuesday. This weekend, we descend into Hell. Enjoy your barbecues, hold your families close, and remember, the most dangerous person at your Labor Day gathering is statistically someone you love. See you tomorrow if you dare