Mariah Carey is reportedly going to be questioned about claims her estranged brother sold drugs, just a few weeks after losing their mother and sister on the same day.
It’s been reported that lawyers will quiz the singer, 55, after she wrote in her memoir about her brother Morgan allegedly selling drugs.
It is said she will be filmed while giving her deposition on January 17 at Morgan’s lawyers’ office, according to court papers.
The 64-year-old filed a lawsuit against her in 2021, accusing her of defamation in The Meaning of Mariah Carey, in which she refers to him as her ‘ex brother’.
A judge ordered the siblings to sit for depositions in his lawsuit before January 31, 2025. The order was filed on August 27, three days after their mother Patricia, 87, and sister Alison, 63, died.
Morgan and Mariah are pictured in the 90s above. They haven’t spoken since 1994
Mariah had a famously fraught relationship with her mother – who inspired her singing
Lawyers will quiz the singer, 55, after she wrote in her memoir about her brother Morgan
According to The Sun, the chart topper will be questioned under oath in New York.
Mariah and Morgan haven’t spoken since 1994 when they had an argument.
The star detailed her rough childhood in her memoir, as she claimed her brother abused her and sold cocaine.
Morgan went on to sue his sister in 2021 as he denied the allegations and accused her of ruining his reputation with alleged lies.
Describing a fight between him and her parents, Mariah wrote in her book: ‘It took twelve cops to pull my brother and father apart. The big bodies of men, all entangled like a swirling hurricane, crashed loudly into the living room.
‘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.’
She added in another passage: ‘Suddenly there was a loud, sharp noise, like an actual gunshot.
Pictured are Morgan’s wife Ilana, Morgan and Mariah Carey
‘My brother had pushed my mother with such force that her body slammed into the wall, making a loud cracking sound.’
Mariah also wrote that her mother had told her Morgan was dealing drugs, including cocaine.
The lawsuit also references another paragraph where Mariah alleges that Morgan ‘discreetly supplied the beautiful people with their powdered party favors’ when he worked in a nightclub in the late 1980s.
His lawyers said this is ‘reasonably understood as a reference to cocaine.’
Morgan denied the violent incidents ever happened or that he sold drugs.
His lawsuit said he brings the legal action ‘in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods’ instead of in anger.
A judge tossed out most of the lawsuit in 2022 but allowed two parts to continue, including against claims that he was a drug dealer and suggesting he had been in prison.
The singer said she stood by what she said ‘as fully accurate, as stated in my own literary style’ – saying the alleged drug dealing was ‘inner-circle common knowledge at the time’.
In August, the singer announced announced that her mother and sister had died.
Alison – who had been estranged from Mariah since 1994 – is pictured in 2018
Carey with daughter Monroe and her mother Patricia
She told People: ‘My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.
‘I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed.
‘I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.’
Mariah had a famously fraught relationship with her mother and sister over the years – and was estranged from Alison, a recovering drug addict, for three decades before her death.
Patricia was married to Mariah’s father, Afro-Venezuelan Alfred Roy Carey, until she was aged three. Mariah’s father died at age 72 in 2002.
Her parents’ interracial marriage upset her mother’s side of the family and they later divorced.
As well as substance abuse, Alison endured homelessness throughout her life. She was also HIV positive.
In 2016 Alison made an impassioned plea to her famous sibling with DailyMail.com, begging her to mend the rift between them and help save her life, saying: ‘Mariah I love you, I desperately need your help.’
In a heartbreaking statement the singer announced her mother Patricia and sister Alison, 63, (pictured 2016) had passed away
She was in dire need of financial support as she battled back to health following a devastating home invasion attack that left her brain damaged and seriously ill. She had been in and out of the hospital.
In addition to Mariah and Alison, Patricia and Roy also had a son Morgan, now 64.
Julliard-educated Patricia was an opera singer and vocal coach.
Mariah opened up about complicated relationships with her mother and sister in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning Of Mariah Carey.
‘Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It’s never been only black-and-white – it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions,’ she explained.
