Mariah Carey’s new family heartache with brother Morgan after tragic deaths

Superstar singer Mariah Carey is embroiled in a family feud over drug allegations just months after her mother and sister died on the same day.

Superstar singer Mariah Carey will be questioned under oath over her brother’s claims that she lied about him allegedly selling drugs in her best-selling autobiography.

Carey is due to a video-taped deposition on January 17 at the law offices of her estranged brother Morgan’s legal team in New York, according to court papers reported by The US Sun.

Morgan Carey filed a lawsuit in 2021 over claims that his sister lied about him in her 2020 biography The Meaning of Mariah Carey.

Mariah Carey performs on the Sunset Stage during the Rock in Rio festival in September in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Picture: Getty Images

In her memoir, Mariah claimed that Morgan was violent towards her and their family.

The star is the youngest of three children born to Patricia Hickey, a former opera singer of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of both African-American and Afro-Venezuelan lineage.

“I was a little girl with very few memories of a big brother who protected me,” she wrote.

“More often, I felt I had to protect myself from him, and sometimes I would find myself protecting my mother from him too.”

In another passage she described Morgan as her “sometimes drug-dealing, been-in-the-system, drunk a** brother,” insinuating he had been in prison.

Mariah Carey and her brother Morgan.

The lawsuit also referenced another paragraph in the book where Mariah alleged that Morgan “discreetly supplied the beautiful people with their powdered party favours” when he worked in a hip New York nightclub in the late 1980s,

Morgan strongly denied all the claims, The US Sun reported, alleging in the suit that

Mariah had inflicted “emotional distress” on him by printing “false and defamatory, personally invasive and painful” claims about him which had caused “serious damage” to his reputation.

“[Morgan] brings this action more in sorrow and disappointment in his sister’s betrayals and malicious falsehoods than in anger at them,” the lawsuit said.

Mariah Carey and mother Patricia. Picture: mariahcarey/Instagram

“He is by no means envious of his sister’s enormous artistic and personal success, has enjoyed his own successes both professional and personal and has always wished her well.”

A judge threw out most of the lawsuit in February 2022 but did allow the allegations that Morgan had been a drug dealer and the implication he had been in prison to continue.

Alison Carey died after years of substance abuse.

The latest family drama comes just months after Mariah and Morgan lost their mother, Patricia, and sister, Alison, on the same day.

Mariah announced both deaths in a statement on August 26, she was “heartbroken” at the loss of her mother who was 87.

“Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day,” she added.

Mariah’s sister, Alison, 63, died from multiple organ failure after years of struggling with drug addiction.

Alison had a complex relationship with her superstar sister and the pair had been estranged for decades.

“We don’t even know each other. We didn’t grow up together,” Mariah told interviewer Oprah Winfrey of Alison and Morgan in 2020. “By the time I got into the world, they had already been damaged.”

Originally published as Mariah Carey’s new family heartache with brother Morgan after tragic deaths