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72 Bad Bunny performs during the 65th Annual Grammy Awards successful Los Angeles, California, February 5, 2023.
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Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is being sued by his ex-girlfriend for much than $40 cardinal implicit claims helium utilized a signaling of her dependable without support oregon compensation.
Carliz De La Cruz Hernández claims that successful 2015, anterior to her divided with Bad Bunny — whose existent sanction is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — and earlier his emergence to planetary fame, she recorded the operation "Bad Bunny baby" connected her phone.
That dependable recording, she says, has been utilized connected 2 of the Grammy grant winning artist's songs, his 2017 azygous "Pa Ti" and the 2022 opus "Dos Mil 16." Both tracks person implicit 200 cardinal plays each connected Spotify and look connected the chart-topping medium "Un Verano Sin Ti".
According to court documents filed successful Puerto Rico earlier this month, de la Cruz said she came up with the operation and her "distinguishable voice" is being utilized without her permission. Her lawyers reason Bad Bunny's usage violates Puerto Rico's "Law of the Right to Own Image."
"Thousands of radical person commented straight connected Carliz's societal media networks, arsenic good arsenic each clip she goes to a nationalist place, astir 'Bad Bunny, baby,'" the lawsuit states. "This has caused, and presently causes, de la Cruz to consciousness worried, anguished, intimidated, overwhelmed and anxious."
De la Cruz and Bad Bunny dated connected and disconnected starting successful 2011, according to the lawsuit. She alleges successful the tribunal documents that Bad Bunny offered her $2,000 to bargain the signaling successful 2022 but she declined. A woody was ne'er reached and helium past went up and utilized the signaling without her explicit permission, according to the lawsuit.
De la Cruz is present seeking astatine slightest $40 million.
Bad Bunny, 29, has not publically addressed the lawsuit. His label, Rimas Entertainment, and his manager, Noah Kamil Assad Byrne, are besides named successful the suit. CNBC reached retired to Rimas Entertainment for comment.
Bad Bunny roseate to prominence successful 2018 aft being featured connected the Cardi B chart-topper "I Like It." He's since go 1 of the astir prolific deed makers successful Latin euphony and was the most-streamed creator connected Spotify for the past 3 years.
Bad Bunny is acceptable to header the 2023 Coachella euphony festival adjacent month.
