Cardi B pleads guilty to assault charges

Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar, has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges on Thursday — admitting she paid a friend $5,000 to beat up a woman who worked at a Queens strip club in 2018.

Cardi also admitted to striking the bartender, pulling her hair and slamming her head into the bar during the attack in August 2018.

She had previously faced 12 charges including two felony counts of attempted assault stemming from her alleged involvement in the attack on the sisters, identified as Jade and Baddie G., at the Flushing strip club Angels.

The rapper wore large tinted sunglasses and told reporters she was doing “Good” as she flashed a quick wave while entering the courthouse Thursday morning, according to footage obtained by The Post.

Inside the courtroom, she sat on a bench and tapped her foot nervously before the hearing — but also chatted, laughed and turned to say “hi” to members of the media.

Her lawyer, Drew Findling, said she’d accepted the plea deal — after previously rejecting one in 2020 —  in effort to simply move on with her life.

“There are too many things that she has planned for her family, for her career and for the community and she just felt, quite honestly,  that a three-week jury trial was going to be a distraction from the things that she felt was most important and so, hence, we made contact with the prosecution,” Findling said after the plea.

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