Finally Kenneth Petty husband of Nicki Minaj will not enter prison for not having registered as a sex offender in the state of California after moving there from New York in 2019. The former convict was facing a decade behind bars for committing a federal crime, but finally this week he has been sentenced to one year of house arrest and three more on probation after pleading guilty in 2020 even though in the first moment he had defended his innocence.

Everything indicates that his change of attitude is due to the agreement he signed with the prosecution last August after being arrested a few months earlier. At his sentencing hearing, in which he suffered from multiple adjournments, he has also been fined $55,000.

In this way, a very unpleasant chapter has been closed for Nicki Minaj, who brought to light the criminal past of the father of her only child. Kenneth was convicted in 1995 of attempted rape of a 16-year -old girl and spent more than four years in a New York jail.

In September 2021, the victim gave a television interview in which she explained that Kenneth approached her while waiting for the bus and threatened her with a knife to follow him to a house, where the sexual assault took place. Although he was initially facing a first-degree rape charge, he ended up being convicted of only attempted rape after reaching another plea deal.

However, Nicki Minaj maintains that her husband was falsely accused and assures that at that time the young woman had a romantic relationship and even tried to retract her accusations later, although she would have changed her mind for fear of the consequences, something that the aforementioned categorically denies. The woman, for her part, has sued Nicki Minaj and her husband, claiming that they have harassed and harassed her, sometimes offering her large amounts of money to agree to sign a public statement in favor of Kenneth.