A Los Angeles County Superior Court docket choose has ordered rapper Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty to pay $500,000 to a safety guard who filed an harm lawsuit towards the couple. Based on XXL, Choose Lynne M. Hobbs on Friday handed a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff after the couple failed to answer the lawsuit.
The plaintiff, recognized as Thomas Weidenmuller, accused Minaj and her husband of bodily assaulting him throughout her 2019 live performance in Germany. Weidenmuller within the 2022 lawsuit mentioned the alleged violent assault occurred whereas he was working as a safety guard on the Pink Friday rapper’s live performance. The lawsuit acknowledged that it was on March 22, 2019.
The lawsuit acknowledged that in the course of the occasion, a fan with none authorization went to the stage space. And although safety personnel rapidly led the fan out of the realm, Minaj bought angered by the breach and commenced screaming at a feminine additionally working as a safety guard on the live performance, per the lawsuit.
Weidenmuller is claimed to have in the end stepped in to try to calm tempers, however Minaj bought infuriated. The 41-year-old rapper and Weidenmuller then bought right into a heated argument earlier than she allegedly threw a shoe on the plaintiff, XXL reported.
The lawsuit additionally acknowledged that the rapper, born Onika Tanya Maraj, later knowledgeable her husband about what occurred between her and Weidenmuller. The plaintiff mentioned Minaj later made him come to a non-public room the place Petty and her two bodyguards had been additionally current. The lawsuit claimed Petty then bodily assaulted Weidenmuller, including that neither Minaj nor her bodyguards intervened as they watched on.
Weidenmuller mentioned he suffered extreme accidents from the assault. Apart from present process eight surgical procedures to repair a damaged jaw, the plaintiff mentioned he additionally suffered head, neck, and facial pains.
Weidenmuller was looking for a $724,000 settlement to cowl his medical payments and for the emotional misery he suffered from the alleged violent assault.
