One other controversy follows Nicki Minaj after the rapper’s former tour supervisor accused her of assault and battery.
In accordance with a media report, Brandon Garrett, Minaj’s former worker who acted as a supervisor on her Pink Friday 2 tour, filed a lawsuit, alleging that the “Tremendous Bass” hitmaker attacked him throughout a present in Detroit again in April 2024.
Within the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, Garrett claims that he was confronted by Minaj backstage, and he or she went off on him for asking one other worker on the tour administration to gather the rapper’s prescriptions.
Garrett recounted that Minaj “angrily screamed” at him and was “visibly upset,” saying, “Are you f*cking loopy having him decide up my prescription?” and “If my husband have been right here, he would knock out your f*cking enamel.”
Minaj additionally allegedly mentioned to Garrett: “You simply f*cked up your complete life and you’ll by no means be anybody, I’ll be certain of it.”
The tour supervisor then accused Minaj of “open-handedly” hanging him on his face and the wrist.
After the alleged assault, Garrett filed a police report in Chicago the place he requested an escort to his resort as he feared for security. He then subsequently filed a police report in Detroit.
The lawsuit additionally acknowledged that Garrett was “fearful and traumatized,” looking for damages for battery, assault, and infliction of emotional misery.
Following the lawsuit, Minaj’s lawyer launched a assertion, calling Garrett’s claims “utterly false and frivolous.”
“Right now, no criticism has been served upon [Minaj], and subsequently, we’re unaware of the precise allegations. Nonetheless, 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 can be resolved swiftly in [Minaj’s] favor,” the assertion learn.
This isn’t the primary time Minaj was hit with a lawsuit the place the plaintiff seeks damages for emotional misery. In August 2024, a 15-year-old tremendous fan filed a lawsuit in opposition to the rapper, alleging he was publicly humiliated by Minaj by calling him a “mentally unstable stalker.”
As reported by U.Ok.’s Day by day Mail, the tremendous fan, named Tameer Peak, additionally accused Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Perry, of battery throughout a Tremendous Bowl LIV occasion again in 2020.
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