Nicki Minaj Dropped From Harassment Lawsuit by Husband’s Attempted Rape Victim

The woman who sued Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty for harassment has dropped Minaj from the lawsuit, as TMZ reports and Pitchfork can confirm. On Wednesday (January 12), Jennifer Hough, the woman whom Petty assaulted in 1994 when they were both teenagers, and her lawyers voluntarily dismissed their claims against Minaj “without prejudice,” according to court documents. Petty is still named in the lawsuit, which alleges sexual assault and battery.

Hough filed her complaint in a New York federal court in August 2021. The lawsuit alleged a pattern of harassment by both Minaj and Petty, including reaching out to Hough directly, offering her large sums of money via proxies, and sending people to her house unannounced, which eventually led her to move out of her home in August 2020. In December, Hough’s lawyers had accused Minaj of victim shaming. 

“What they tried to do to Nicki was disgraceful,” Minaj’s attorney Judd Burstein told Vulture. “They finally realized that they had to surrender without Nicki paying a penny. And now, Nicki and I are going to make them pay for this in the courts.”