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

nme.com:

Nicki Minaj is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who claims the rapper smacked him in the face at a Detroit concert last year.A 10-page complaint was filed in Los Angeles yesterday (January 3), in which Minaj and her company Pink Personality were named as lead defendants in the suit, with claims including assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.Per Rolling Stone, plaintiff Brandon Jovan Garrett claimed he was working for Minaj as a “day-to-day manager” when her head of security summoned him to a meeting at her dressing room in the Little Caesars Arena on April 21, 2024.Garrett alleges Minaj was upset at the time, and that her stress about the state of her staff turned into “rage” after one employee used picking up her prescriptions as an example of his good performance.According to the suit, Minaj was frustrated that Garrett had assigned the task to the other employee.

Garrett says he tried to reason with the ‘Super Bass’ singer and remind her she wanted the prescription picked up “immediately,” and that he had no choice but to delegate as he was busy assisting Minaj in her quick-change room ahead of the show.“Are you fucking crazy having him pick up my prescription?” she allegedly screamed at Garrett. “You have lost your fucking mind, and if my husband was here, he would knock out your fucking teeth.