A California judge says she is close to forcing the sale of Nicki Minaj’s $20 million mansion—after the rapper allegedly refused to pay damages that were awarded to a former security guard who claims he was assaulted by her husband, Kenneth Petty.
According to Rolling Stone, during a recent hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Cindy Pánuco said, “My tentative is to grant this. I just want to make sure we’re getting it right.” She noted the only remaining document needed was a Bank of America statement showing Minaj’s mortgage payments since October 2022 and daily interest accrual.
Pánuco outlined a potential scenario, stating, “Let’s say there’s no bidder who offers the full $20 million, and it goes up for auction, and they don’t get fair market value, and it doesn’t cover everything… then I would use that evidence to help me to determine that.
Pánuco explained that she wants to review this document to ensure that a forced sale of the property will actually be able to cover the $503,000 that is owed to Minaj’s former security guard, Thomas Weidenmuller, even if the property sells for well below its market value.
The dispute stems from a 2019 concert in Germany, during which Weidenmuller alleges Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, attacked him. Court filings claim Minaj called a female security guard a “f**king bitch,” threw a shoe at Weidenmuller, and that Petty “PUNCHED Weidenmuller from the side and made contact with the right side of [his] face.” Weidenmuller required surgery for a broken jaw.
He was later awarded more than half a million dollars in damages by a judge.
However, he claims that money still has not been paid to him—an error that Minaj, 42, has since blamed on one of her financial advisers.
On Oct. 6, Weidenmuller filed legal documents asking the court to order Minaj to sell her 11-bedroom, 16-bathroom dwelling in Hidden Hills, which she purchased for $19.5 million in December 2022.
Weidenmuller’s legal team stated that the star has a $13.3 million mortgage lien on the property and a “$722,151 homestead exemption—together just under $14 million.”
“The property’s current fair market value is appraised at $20 million, yielding approximately $6 million in equity beyond the lien and exemption,” the filing notes. “That amount is more than sufficient to satisfy the judgment, plus accrued interest and enforcement costs.”