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Nicki Minaj is seemingly beginning the yr off with some authorized points. On Friday (Jan. 3), Billboard reported, “Nicki Minaj has been sued for assault by a person who claims the rapper bodily attacked him following a live performance in Detroit final April, in response to paperwork filed in Los Angeles Superior Court docket.”
The lawsuit asserted that her former supervisor, Brandon Garrett, claimed that Minaj attacked him, hitting him a number of occasions backstage on April 21, after he had one other tour worker seize her prescription on his behalf. After discovering out, Garrett acknowledged that Minaj responded, “Are you f**king loopy having him decide up my prescription? You might have misplaced your f**king thoughts and if my husband was right here, he would knock out your f**king tooth. You’re a lifeless man strolling. You simply f**ked up your complete life and you’ll by no means be anybody, I’ll be certain that of it.”
The grievance additional famous that Minaj “open-handedly struck” Garrett on his face and wrist earlier than ordering him out the room. Shortly after, Garrett claimed he locked himself within the toilet for hours earlier than receiving a textual content claiming that he wouldn’t be capable of take the tour bus from Detroit to Chicago. After taking a flight to the following tour cease, he instantly contacted Chicago Police Division for a police escort exclaiming, “He feared for his security and didn’t know if his belongings had been eliminated or tampered with.”
Billboard additional reported that Minaj’s authorized illustration, Judd Burnstein, shared, “At the moment, no grievance has been served upon Mrs. Petty, and due to this fact, we’re unaware of the precise allegations. Nevertheless, if the lawsuit is as reported by TMZ, it’s utterly false and frivolous. We’re assured that the matter introduced by this ex-assistant shall be resolved swiftly in Mrs. Petty’s favor.”
Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, has had a historical past of public threats and going through authorized issues. In 2023, he was hit with a 120-day home arrest order after a Central District of California courtroom dominated that he violated his probation phrases after threatening Offset on social media. The husband of the Sagittarius rapper has been the topic of jokes on social media as a consequence of his authorized points.