Cardi B's legal fight over racy mixtape cover art has been settled.

On Friday, a jury ruled in favour of Cardi B in a case involving a man who claimed the Grammy-winning rapper used his back tattoos for her sexually suggestive 2016 mixtape cover art.

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Kevin Michael Brophy did not prove Cardi B stole his likeness, according to a federal jury in Southern California.

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The rapper hugged her attorneys and smiled as the jury forewoman read the verdict.

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Cardi B expressed gratitude to the jurors, admitting that she was "pretty nervous" before hearing the verdict.

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"I wasn't sure if I was going to lose or not," she said as she walked out of the courtroom. She was surrounded by reporters, photographers, and more than 40 high school students who chanted her name.

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One fan held up a sign asking if she could take him to his homecoming dance, to which she replied “Yes, I’ll see what I can do.”

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Brophy's lawsuit was filed a year after the rapper's 2016 mixtape was released. He referred to himself as a "family man with minor children."

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A. Barry Cappello, Brophy's lawyer, stated that photo-editing software was used to place the back tattoo, which has appeared in tattoo magazines, onto the male model featured on the mixtape cover.

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