A judge is on the verge of forcing Nicki Minaj to sell her $20 million Los Angeles mansion to pay out a security guard after a default judgment.
Rolling Stone reports that Judge Cindy Pánuco recently awarded a security guard, Thomas Weidenmuller, $500,000 after he sued Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, for an alleged backstage assault at a concert in Frankfurt, Germany.
“My tentative is to grant this,” Pánuco said at a hearing. “I just want to make sure we’re getting it right.”
The judge said the only outstanding document in the application to force the sale of the rapper's home was a statement from Bank of America showing how much of Minaj’s $13.3 million mortgage she has already paid since purchasing the home in October 2022.
“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,” Pánuco explained. “If it doesn’t cover what the sale is required to cover—including the judgment, in this instance—then I would use that evidence to help me to determine that.”
While Weidenmuller’s attorney, Paul Saso, argued that the home’s sale would cover the default judgment, Pánuco is set on receiving the bank statement first. The next hearing is slated for Jan. 22, when she will rule on the matter.
Weidenmuller said he tried to figure out another way to enforce the default judgment, but Minaj and Petty didn’t respond.
“There is no doubt that the sale of the dwelling would satisfy the entire judgment, with millions to spare,” Weidenmuller’s application for the order read. “Although it is regrettable that the extraordinary measure of forcing the sale of Minaj’s dwelling is required, that result is entirely the product of her intransigence in not making payment.”
Weidenmuller sued Minaj and her husband in January 2022, accusing Petty of attacking him from behind and punching him in the face when Weidenmuller defended a woman he worked with, also a security guard, during an altercation with Minaj at the 2019 concert in Frankfurt.
Weidenmuller said that Minaj was annoyed that the security guard allowed a fan to jump the barricade and get on stage. Minaj yelled at the security guard and recorded the exchange; Weidenmuller interjected, telling Minaj that the security guard’s career might be “ruined” due to Minaj’s recording.
Minaj then allegedly threw a shoe at Weidenmuller and missed. Weidenmuller’s interaction with Petty came after.
“I now have five plates in my jaw, and my jaw has not yet been fully reconstructed," Weidenmuller wrote in a statement. "The doctors must still insert implants into my jaw as a part of the reconstruction process. In the interim, the doctors have inserted donor bones from a deceased person into my mouth in order to preserve space for the future implants."
He was awarded the money last week when Minaj and Petty failed to respond to his lawsuit.