Rapper Unhealthy Bunny sued for $40 million over ex-girlfriend’s voice recording

Puerto Rican rapper Unhealthy Bunny is being sued by his ex-girlfriend for $40 million over claims he used a recording of her voice with out permission or compensation.

Carliz De La Cruz Hernández claims that in 2015, previous to her cut up with Unhealthy Bunny — whose actual title is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio — and earlier than his rise to worldwide fame, she recorded the phrase “Unhealthy Bunny child” on her cellphone.

That voice recording, she says, has been used on two of the Grammy-award profitable artist’s songs, his 2017 single “Pa Ti” and the 2022 track “Dos Mil 16.” Each tracks have greater than 200 million performs every on Spotify and the latter seems on the chart-topping album “Un Verano Sin Ti.”

In accordance with courtroom paperwork filed in Puerto Rico earlier this month, De La Cruz stated she got here up with the phrase and her “distinguishable voice” is getting used with out her permission. Her attorneys argue Unhealthy Bunny’s use violates Puerto Rico’s “regulation of the correct to personal picture.”

“1000’s of individuals have commented immediately on Carliz’s social media networks, in addition to each time she goes to a public place, about ‘Unhealthy Bunny child,'” the lawsuit states. “This has prompted, and presently causes, De La Cruz to really feel apprehensive, anguished, intimidated, overwhelmed and anxious.” 

De la Cruz and Unhealthy Bunny dated on and off beginning in 2011, in response to the lawsuit. She alleges within the courtroom paperwork that Unhealthy Bunny supplied her $2,000 to purchase the recording in 2022 however she declined. A deal was by no means reached and he then went forward and used the recording with out her categorical permission, in response to the lawsuit.

De la Cruz is now searching for a minimum of $40 million.

Unhealthy Bunny, 29, has not publicly addressed the lawsuit. His label, Rimas Leisure, and his supervisor, Noah Kamil Assad Byrne, are additionally named within the go well with. CNBC reached out to Rimas Leisure for remark.

Unhealthy Bunny rose to prominence in 2018 after being featured on the Cardi B chart-topper “I Like It.” He is since change into one of the vital prolific hit makers in Latin music and was the most-streamed artist on Spotify for the previous three years.

Unhealthy Bunny is ready to headline the 2023 Coachella music pageant subsequent month.