Nicki Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty are nonetheless going through a hefty six-figure lawsuit filed by German live performance safety employees in Could 2023. Minaj is supposedly being accused of “scary” Petty to assault safety at a 2019 live performance. The altercation allegedly stems from an incidence involving a fan working onstage earlier than safety may curtail them. Minaj allegedly yelled at a feminine safety guard, along with shouting expletives and berating a safety guard by the identify of Thomas Weidenmuller whereas recording them on video.
Issues apparently obtained violent later that day when Weidenmuller met with Minaj and Petty and two of their private safety element members. Weidenmuller claims the Pink Friday 2 rapper repeatedly shouted at him, referred to as his feminine co-worker a “f###ing b####” and stood by as Petty attacked him—although he hadn’t been provoked.
“Whereas Minaj screamed obscenities at me, Petty repositioned himself out of my eyesight and with out warning struck me within the face, which surprised and disoriented me,” court docket paperwork allegedly state. “Due to the shock nature of the assault, I’m not positive as as to if Petty hit me together with his fist or with a weapon.”
The current lawsuit follows a tumultuous few months for Petty. In September, he was sentenced to 120 days of home arrest after on the lookout for Offset in New York Metropolis after a contentious on-line trade. Each Petty and Minaj have been additionally on the heart of a $20 million lawsuit final yr after his 1994 sexual assault accuser claimed the couple terrorized her for years to get her to recant the rape allegations towards Petty. Although she has been formally faraway from the lawsuit, Minaj will nonetheless be “prominently” featured within the proceedings.
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