Nicki Minaj accused of assaulting her manager during trial

Nicki Minaj’s former manager has accused the rap superstar of repeatedly berating and hitting him while she was on tour in Detroit.

In a lawsuit, Brandon Jovan Garrett alleged that Minaj, 42, whose real name is Onika Maraj, assaulted him on April 21 after a concert at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses Minaj of assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. His company, Pink Personality Inc., is also named as a defendant.

An attorney for Minaj did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

Garrett, who describes himself as Minaj’s “day-to-day manager,” says in the complaint that on April 21, when he was returning from buying the ice cream Minaj requested, his head of security summoned him to his dressing room.

Minaj was in the room with the head of security and five other members of her team and was upset about how tasks were being handled among her employees, according to the complaint.

A member of Minaj’s team then asked Garrett why another employee was collecting her prescriptions. Garrett said he asked someone else to pick up the prescription because Minaj wanted it immediately and he was busy helping her in the dressing room during performances, the suit states.

Minaj became furious with Garrett’s responses and reaction, according to the lawsuit. Garrett’s response caused her to “rage” even more, and she began yelling profanities at Garrett, according to the lawsuit.

Minaj called Garrett crazy and told him he had lost his mind and that if her husband were there, “he would knock his teeth out,” they say.

“You are a dead man walking. You’ve just fucked up your whole life and you’ll never be anyone, I’ll make sure of that,” Minaj told Garrett in the lawsuit.

Minaj physically attacked Garrett, according to the lawsuit, striking him “with her bare hands” “on the right side of his face, causing his head to roll back as his hat flew off his head.” » The lawsuit alleges she hit him in the right wrist. , forcing him to drop the documents he was holding, before she kicked him out of the room.

Garrett then locked himself in a bathroom for hours because he feared for his safety, the complaint states.

The next morning, Garrett received a text message saying he would not take the tour bus from Detroit to Chicago, he said in the lawsuit.

Garrett said in the lawsuit that he called Detroit police from the airport and was told he would have to file a police report in person.

Garrett returned to Detroit and filed a police report before returning home to Los Angeles, according to the lawsuit.

Detroit police confirmed Monday that Garrett had filed a report. Police said a warrant request was sent to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

The prosecutor’s office said in a statement Monday that the warrant was denied due to “insufficient evidence to prove that a crime was committed.”

The suit alleges that Minaj “abused her position of authority” and “berated, threatened, used profanity, and violently struck” Garrett on multiple occasions. His actions were done “with the intent to cause serious emotional distress” or with conscious disregard for the likelihood that Garrett would “suffer serious emotional distress.”

He is seeking a jury trial.