Nicki Minaj has finally paid a concert security guard allegedly assaulted by her husband during the Nicki Wrld Tour in 2019, avoiding a looming court-ordered sale of her Los Angeles area mansion to satisfy the debt.
Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, had refused for nearly two years to pay a $500,000 assault judgment to German security guard Thomas Weidenmüller. A judge had been set on Thursday (Jan. 22) to enforce the payment by ordering the sale of the couple’s 11,000 square-foot home in Hidden Hills, California — but upon arriving in court, Weidenmüller’s lawyer, Paul Saso, announced that the drastic step is no longer necessary.
“In an eleventh-hour development, the judgment debtors have satisfied the judgment,” Saso told Judge Cindy Pánuco.
Following the hearing, Saso told press gathered outside the courthouse that Weidenmüller “is incredibly gratified and happy” and that “it’s been a long time coming to have justice finally done here.”
Asked what message he wanted to relay to Minaj, Saso said, “She has been very vocal online recently and demeaning to various types of people.”
“She’s certainly been very vocal about her thoughts on the gay and trans community, and I’m happy that this case has helped her transition — transition from a person who avoids responsibility to a person who is being forced to take responsibility,” he added. “And my hope is that it helps her transition from a person of violence to a person of peace.”
Minaj came under fire this week for using homophobic slurs to refer to journalist Don Lemon. The rapper has recently adopted a number of conservative viewpoints, and she shocked the music industry by appearing at a Turning Point USA conference last month.
A rep for Minaj did not immediately return a request for comment on Thursday.
The litigation stemmed from an altercation at Festhalle arena in Frankfurt, Germany, where Minaj performed during her Nicki Wrld Tour in March 2019. After the show, Minaj allegedly berated a female security guard for allowing a fan to get up on stage while she was performing.
Weidenmüller, who was working as head of security that night, says he intervened on the female guard’s behalf and escorted her away from Minaj. This supposedly enraged Minaj and Petty, the rapper’s boyfriend at the time. Weidenmüller alleges that later in the night, he was summoned to Minaj’s dressing room and punched in the face by Petty.
Weidenmüller allegedly spent over a week in the hospital with a broken jaw and had to have multiple surgeries to fix the damage. He says he reported the incident to German police, but Petty left the country before he could be apprehended.
The guard sued both Petty and Minaj in 2022 for battery, negligence and conspiracy. He won a $500,000 default judgment in 2024 after Minaj and Petty ignored the claims, and the couple then stonewalled multiple attempts by Weidenmüller to collect the money.
Weidenmüller ultimately put a levy on Minaj and Petty’s Hidden Hills home — a legal maneuver that paves the way for a court-ordered sale to enforce an unpaid judgment. Judge Pánuco had been set to do just that on Thursday, writing in a tentative ruling that Weidenmüller had “satisfied all of these requirements” to hold a sale.
Minaj and Petty’s house is worth $20 million, far more than the $500,000 owed to Weidenmüller. If a forced sale had gone forward, roughly $13 million of the proceeds would have been set aside to pay off a separate mortgage lien to Bank of America, presumably leaving the couple with a little over $6 million back in their pockets.
This is not the only time Petty has been accused of violence. He pled guilty in 1995 to first-degree attempted rape, and he recently ended a three-year term of probation imposed by a federal judge after he failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to California with Minaj in 2019.
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