Nicki Minaj is reportedly being sued by one in every of her Barbz. In line with TMZ, Tameer Peak filed a lawsuit with Los Angeles Superior Court docket, accusing the Grammy Award-nominated rapper of slander.
Peak claims he was a sufferer of the “Nicki hate practice” in 2017, when she supposedly lashed out at a number of of her ardent followers. He says Minaj publicly ridiculed him and accused him of being a “stalker.” At one level, she allegedly invited him to her lodge to movie and embarrass him in entrance of 100,000 viewers on Instagram Dwell.
Peak additionally accuses Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, of battering him at a Tremendous Bowl occasion in 2020, which he says Minaj addressed in a personal message. Earlier this yr, he was informed by a number of others that Minaj needed him to “cease saying dumb s###.”
Different allegations embody Minaj portray him as mentally unstable, saying, “It’s clear they’re not essentially, you already know, a full basket umm on the picnic.” In one other alleged occasion, she supposedly mentioned he was “one sandwich in need of a picnic” and receiving authorities checks, implying he was on welfare.
Peak is suing Minaj for $5 million in damages for reputational hurt, emotional misery and monetary loss.
Nicki Mina has confronted a number of authorized challenges all through her profession, one of the crucial notable being a lawsuit filed by singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman in 2018. Chapman sued Minaj for copyright infringement, claiming that the rapper used a portion of her 1988 tune “Child Can I Maintain You” in her monitor “Sorry” with out permission.
The dispute arose when Minaj’s workforce allegedly reached out to Chapman for clearance, which was denied. Regardless of this, the monitor was leaked on-line and performed on the radio, main Chapman to file a lawsuit searching for damages. The case ultimately resulted in a settlement, with Minaj agreeing to pay Chapman $450,000, marking a big second within the ongoing discussions round copyright and sampling within the music trade.
One other authorized situation involving Minaj surfaced in 2021, when she and Petty have been sued by Jennifer Hough, a girl who accused Petty of sexual assault in 1994. Hough claimed that Minaj and Petty engaged in a marketing campaign of harassment and intimidation, trying to stress her into recanting her allegations. Hough alleged that Minaj provided her cash and different inducements to vary her story, and when she refused, she confronted threats and harassment. The lawsuit sought damages for emotional misery and different hurt attributable to this alleged conduct.
