Nicki Minaj is being sued by a former worker after she allegedly “open-handedly struck” him

Nicki Minaj is going through a lawsuit from a former worker who claims the rapper smacked him within the face at a Detroit live performance final 12 months.

A ten-page grievance was filed in Los Angeles yesterday (January 3), during which Minaj and her firm Pink Character have been named as lead defendants within the go well with, with claims together with assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional misery.

Per Rolling Stone, plaintiff Brandon Jovan Garrett claimed he was working for Minaj as a “day-to-day supervisor” when her head of safety summoned him to a gathering at her dressing room within the Little Caesars Enviornment on April 21, 2024.

Garrett alleges Minaj was upset on the time, and that her stress concerning the state of her workers was “rage” after one worker used choosing up her prescriptions for instance of his good efficiency.

Based on the go well with, Minaj was pissed off that Garrett had assigned the duty to the opposite worker. Garrett says he tried to motive with the ‘Tremendous Bass’ singer and remind her she wished the prescription picked up “instantly,” and that he had no alternative however to delegate as he was busy aiding Minaj in her quick-change room forward of the present.

“Are you fucking loopy having him decide up my prescription?” she allegedly screamed at Garrett. “You may have misplaced your fucking thoughts, and if my husband was right here, he would knock out your fucking enamel. You’re a lifeless man strolling. You simply fucked up your complete life and you'll by no means be anybody, I’ll make sure that of it.”

Garrett went on to say Minaj had “abruptly stood up, stomped her ft and walked aggressively” in direction of him whereas persevering with to insult him, and additional alleged she then “open-handedly struck” him on the appropriate aspect of his face.

This reportedly brought on his head to “swing backwards and his hat to fly off of his head,” with a second alleged strike from Minaj on his wrist knocking paperwork out of his hand. In his lawsuit, Garrett claimed that after the alleged assault, he had fled and locked himself in a rest room till 4am – later reporting the incident to the police and flying again to his native Los Angeles.

NME has reached out to representatives of Minaj for remark.

Elsewhere, Minaj confirmed late final 12 months {that a} new tour shall be launched alongside the “subsequent official album”, information that got here lower than a month forward of the drop of the ultimate deluxe model of her 2023 album ‘Pink Friday 2’.

In a four-star evaluate of ‘Pink Friday 2’, NME wrote: “‘Pink Friday 2’ seems like a consolidation and refinement of every little thing Minaj can do – together with dropping popular culture references that no different artist would consider. 13 years after ‘Pink Friday’, Nicki Minaj hasn’t misplaced her potential to catch us unexpectedly.”