Nicki Minaj has been on the heart of controversy all through 2021. The “Starships” rapper has been implicated in a high-profile courtroom case that alleges wrongdoing on the a part of Minaj in addition to her husband, Kenneth Petty.
Kenneth Petty was accused of rape by Jennifer Hough
In September 1994, Kenneth Petty was charged with tried rape, when each he and a lady named Jennifer Hough have been youngsters. In an interview on The Actual in September 2021, Hough described intimately the horrific occasions of that day practically three many years prior. She claimed that he held her at gunpoint and compelled her to stroll to his home, the place he tried to rape her earlier than she freed herself. Petty was convicted and served 4 years in jail.
Hough additionally alleged that Minaj tried to get her to recant her story. “In March of 2020, [Minaj] called me and said she got word I was willing to help them out in the situation,” Hough stated. “I didn’t understand what she was referring to, and she offered to fly me and my family to L.A. I turned it down. I told her, woman-to-woman, this really happened and I haven’t spoken to her since.”
Hough claimed that Minaj despatched associates to pay her massive sums of cash to assist change her thoughts. “[They were] sending people to negotiate numbers as far as money is concerned with family members, and Nicki is the one who personally reached out to me in regard to helping her, helping them in this situation,” she stated. “And then the threats that I received because I kept saying no to every offer, to every suggestion. The last incident was when one of their associates put $20,000 on my lap, and I still kept saying no. The last message I received was that I should have taken the money ’cause they’re going to take that money to put on my head.”
Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty allegedly labored with the Bloods gang
Hough and her attorneys are suing Minaj and Petty for $20 million. In courtroom paperwork obtained by All Hip Hop, Hough’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, cited a latest journey to Queens, New York as proof of Minaj and Petty’s continued threats.
Hough and her attorneys claimed a person named Black related to Minaj and Petty threatened her life on social media after refusing his supply of $20,000 in money. They stated members of the Makk Balla Brims gang — a part of the Bloods gang in New York — have been threatening to retaliate in opposition to Hough, to the purpose she was pressured to transfer to one other state.
“[Kenneth] Petty and [Nicki] Maraj were both in this district, in Jamaica, Queens, New York,” Blackburn informed the decide. “As seen on an Instagram Live video currently up on Maraj’s Instagram page, both Maraj and Petty were seen associating with members of the Makk Ballers set of the Bloods Gang. Petty and Maraj are both members of this gang.”
“Shortly after Petty and Maraj are spotted with their gangster colleagues, a member of the gang posted a death threat to Ms. Hough on Twitter, stating: ‘Jennifer, if you see this, the Makks are coming to get you.’”
Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty’s courtroom circumstances
Petty first reemerged within the highlight in 2018 when he began courting Minaj. The 2 have been childhood sweethearts. In 2020, he was arrested for failing to register as a intercourse offender in California.
Minaj herself hasn’t spoken publicly in regards to the allegations in opposition to herself or her husband. However she’s nonetheless courted controversy regardless: in October 2021, for instance, she defended Little Combine star Jesy Nelson for blackfishing and referred to as out her former groupmates.