8/14/2021- 8:20 a.m.
New York – Superstar Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, have been sued by the woman he was accused of raping in 1994.
He was arrested on suspicion of rape and pleaded guilty to attempted rape and served four and a half years in prison.
The woman, now 43, alleged she was attacked at knifepoint as a 16-year-old in Queens, New York City by Kenneth Petty. The victim has filed a lawsuit alleging Minaj and Petty, who have an 11-month-old son, have been harassing and intimidating her to force her to recant her story.
The lawsuit, filed in the US district court for the eastern district of New York, claims Minaj offered her $500,000 to drop the story.
Kenneth Petty was arrested in March 2020 for failure to register as a sex offender in California, it is alleged the victim was contacted by a childhood friend who acted as an intermediary between her and Minaj.
It is also claimed there was a $20,000 cash offer and that Minaj offered to send the woman’s daughter a video message for her 16th birthday “as a bonus”.
The lawsuit says the woman has not worked since May 2020 “due to severe depression, paranoia, constant moving, harassment and threats” from Minaj, Petty and their associates.
She is living in isolation in Florida out of fear of retaliation, it states.
It is then claimed the accuser’s brother called her and stated two people contacted a family member saying Minaj had offered half a million dollars if she wrote a letter recanting her rape allegation against Petty. The woman is said to have hung up and been left “distraught”.
