After all the fuss generated by the constant outings in which Bad Bunny has been seen with Kendall Jenner, with whom an alleged romance between them is presumed, now the “Bad Rabbit” is involved in a fairly large controversy , since he is facing a million-dollar lawsuit from an ex-girlfriend.
The Puerto Rican singer is being sued for a sum of 40 million dollars, an amount that his ex-partner believes is sufficient payment because the interpreter of titi asked me he used a recording of her without her consent in two of his songs.
Benito used the catchphrase “Bad Bunny, baby” without his permission
The lawsuit against Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, better known by his stage name Bad Bunny, was filed by Carliz De La Cruz Hernández in Puerto Rico. According to Carliz, he was a sentimental partner of the singer long before he was famous. In addition, he assures that the Puerto Rican has used a recording of his without his permission.
Under the argument that she never legally accepted that the “Bad Rabbit” used the recording saying the phrase “Bad Bunny, baby” that the 29-year-old interpreter has used in famous songs like for you, which has more than 355 million views on YouTube, and two thousand 16, which has more than 60 million views, the girl denounced him for “violation of image rights, author’s moral rights, damages.”
In addition, the legal action was also against Rimas Entertainment, the label in charge of editing the song. for you and the disk a summer without youas well as Noah Kamil Assad Byrne, Rimas Classics LLC and nine other corporations that have been involved in the dissemination of songs with said recording of the voice of Bad Bunny’s ex-girlfriend.
In addition to excluding her name from the artistic works created, the defendants used the plaintiff’s distinguishable voice without her consent for songs, records, promotions, concerts around the world, and social and music platforms, television and radio, which the plaintiff considers ‘commercial exploitation of your voice, your identity without your consent, in all facets of the music business around the world’. During that time, they never spoke about the use of the plaintiff’s voice in the song ‘Pa ti’.
The girl recorded the phrase with her cell phone in 2015
According to some media outlets, Carliz De La Cruz Hernández met Bad Bunny in 2011, when they both worked in a supermarket while studying at the university, many years before the singer became famous, since their relationship lasted until 2016. , apparently, because Benito met another girl.
The ex-partner of the “Bad Rabbit” assures that she recorded several versions of the slogan “Bad Bunny, baby” with the voice notes of her phone in 2015 and that she did it in the bathroom of a friend’s house, since it was the place calmer and quieter, so after recording them, he sent them to the Puerto Rican singer.
For their part, De La Cruz’s lawyers argue that even a few days before the latest album was released a summer without youthe representatives of the interpreter of little fridge they offered to buy the girl the rights to the recordings for two thousand dollars, which she refused and still released the record material using her voice without her permission.
Since the news of the lawsuit was released, users have not stopped commenting and tagging the account of Bad Bunny’s ex-girlfriend on social networks, where they have not only talked about the use of the girl’s recording, but also Various threads were also opened that tell a little more about the relationship they had. Below we leave you a Twitter thread that briefly talks about the relationship of the “Bad Rabbit” with De La Cruz.
🧵 I open a thread about the relationship between Bad Bunny and Carliz de La Cruz.
Very few know the story behind the voice of “Bad Bunny, baby”, who is now asking for compensation after the Puerto Rican singer used the voice notes in different songs without his consent. pic.twitter.com/ZLFZ1zgBln
—neli (@nelivana) March 21, 2023