Nicki Minaj may be forced to give up her million-dollar mansion if she does not pay the security guard who is owed $500,000 over an alleged backstage assault.
Former security guard Thomas Weidenmuller has been waiting years to collect his default judgment after the rapper and her husband, Kenneth Petty, never responded to a lawsuit claiming Petty attacked the guard and broke his jaw at a 2019 show in Germany.
On Monday, Los Angeles judge Cindy Pánuco said she is ready to force Minaj’s hand after Weidenmuller filed a motion saying he has exhausted every option to collect his payment, Rolling Stone reported. The judge said she is considering granting an application that would allow the house to be sold, saying the only document that she needs to proceed is a detailed mortgage statement from Bank of America showing how much of Minaj’s $13.3 million loan has been paid.
The final bank papers will be submitted ahead of the follow-up hearing January 22, when the ruling is made official.
The Hidden Hills mansion, listed in court documents as Minaj’s sole property after she bought it in October 2022, is worth about $20 million, meaning the “Roman Holiday” songwriter will still have millions of dollars left to recover after the sale. Still, the judge’s move is one of the most extreme measures allowed in California law. Weidenmuller’s application said, “There is no doubt that the sale of the swelling would satisfy the entire judgment.”
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