Kenneth Petty’s Accuser Amends Complaint To Remove Nicki Minaj As A Defendant

A lawsuit against Nicki Minaj and her husband has been amended to include evidence from the original case and remove Nicki as a defendant.

A lawsuit against Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, filed by the woman Petty pled guilty to attempting to rape in 1994 has been amended to include evidence from the original case and remove Nicki as a defendant.

Jennifer Hough has filed a new version of her complaint that includes some allegations made in earlier versions of the complaint along with new evidence from the underlying criminal case, legal journalist Meghann Cuniff reports in Legal Affairs and Trials. Among the new evidence includes excerpts from the transcript of Petty’s plea and sentencing hearing in May 1995 where he admitted to trying to engage in sexual intercourse with Hough “by means of forcible compulsion.”

“I attempted to rape her,” the transcript says Petty told the court.

The amended complaint was filed with exhibits from the 1994 case in which Petty pleaded guilty to attempted rape, including the full transcript from Petty's change of plea and sentencing in May 1995.

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While the transcript was already public, Hough’s lawyer filed them as exhibits in August with a motion seeking to amend or correct his complaint. The new evidence also included a photo of the large knife Petty used to intimidate Hough along with images of her bruises after the assault.

In August, Petty’s lawyer made an opposition brief claiming Hough wanted to amend her complaint “to feed her and her counsel’s desire and need for publicity and to attempt to publicly embarrass Mr. Petty (and his celebrity wife).”

“Plaintiff publicly filed the unnecessary sixteen ‘supplemental’ Exhibits with her letter motion, fourteen of which concerned Mr. Petty’s arrest in 1994. Plaintiff and her counsel then gave interviews to the media and made numerous posts on social media concerning the Exhibits and the proposed Second Amended Complaint,” according to the letter from attorney Steven D. Isser of New York City. “That it is not necessary to include such ‘evidence’ attached to a complaint, combined with Plaintiff and her counsel’s public statements concerning the ‘evidence’ and Proposed Amendment, demonstrates that Plaintiff’s true purpose in making the motion was in bad faith.”

While Nicki Minaj is no longer listed as a defendant in the lawsuit, she is still heavily mentioned throughout the complaint for allegedly calling Hough in 2020 and trying to get her to recant her claims against Petty as well as allegedly sending people to Hough’s house.

Petty is currently on house arrest related to threatening remarks he made toward Cardi B’s husband Offset in September. It’s part of Petty’s federal case for failing to register as a sex offender when he relocated to California to live with Nicki.