ATLANTA, July 3 -- The $4 million defamation verdict Cardi B won against gossip blogger Tasha K in 2022 was designed to be conclusive. Tasha K, whose legal name is Latasha Kebe, would stop posting about Cardi B and her family. Cardi B would stop collecting on the judgment. The court had spoken. The feud would end on paper, if not in memory.

That did not happen. A contempt settlement filed July 1 in federal court requires Kebe to pay Cardi B an additional $60,000 after what the rapper's attorneys documented as more than two dozen violations of the non-disparagement clause that was supposed to make the original judgment final.

The settlement agreement, which lawyers for both parties said was reached to avoid "the expense, delay and uncert...