Nicki Minaj’s husband gets home confinement for failing to register as a sex offender


Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty married in October 2019. Photo: TNS

Kenneth Petty, the husband of rapper Nicki Minaj, will not serve prison time for failing to register in California as a sex offender.

Instead, US District Judge Michael Fitzgerald sentenced Petty on Wednesday (July 6) afternoon to a year of home confinement and three years of probation. The judge also ordered Petty to pay a US$55,000 fine, according to US Department of Justice spokesperson Ciaran McEvoy, whose office prosecuted the case.

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