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Nicki Minaj could be forced to sell her $20 million home in California to help settle a debt after she lost a lawsuit from a former bodyguard.
A tentative decision was handed down by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Cindy Pánuco during a hearing on Monday, November 24. According to Rolling Stone, Judge Pánuco reviewed a motion by the defendant Thomas Weidenmuller, who requested a court order to compel Minaj to sell her home in Los Angeles to satisfy a $503,000 judgment he won by default. She seemed to agree with Weidenmuller's motion, but didn't exactly rule in his favor.
“My tentative is to grant this. I just want to make sure we’re getting it right," Judge Pánuco said. “Let’s say there’s no bidder who offers the full $20 million, and it goes up for auction, and they don’t get fair market value, and it doesn’t cover everything,” Judge Pánuco said. “If it doesn’t cover what the sale is required to cover — including the judgment, in this instance — then I would use that evidence to help me to determine that.”
The only document Judge Pánuco needs to force the home’s sale is a Bank of America statement that proves Minaj’s payments on her home's $13.3 million mortgage since October 2022, and the daily interest accrual. Thomas Weidenmuller sued Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, in 2022 over an incident that occurred in 2019. Weidenmuller alleged Petty attacked him from behind and punched him in the face after he tried to defend a female security guard that Minaj had argued with during a concert in Frankfurt. He also accused Minaj of throwing a shoe at him before Petty attacked him. After Petty allegedly assaulted him, Weidenmuller said he was so “stunned and disoriented" that he had to be taken to a hospital.
“I felt a blinding pain in my head, neck, face, and jaw. I could tell in that instant that something was seriously wrong with my jaw,” Weidenmuller said in his lawsuit. “I now have five plates in my jaw, and my jaw has not yet been fully reconstructed. The doctors must still insert implants into my jaw as a part of the reconstruction process. In the interim, the doctors have inserted donor bones from a deceased person into my mouth in order to preserve space for the future implants."
Weidenmuller originally asked for nearly $21,000 for his medical bills and $700,000 for emotional pain and suffering. The judge reduced it to $503,318 when she awarded Weidenmuller the money after Minaj and Petty neglected to respond to the lawsuit. As of this report, the Pettys have not commented on the situation.
A follow-up hearing, where Judge Pánuco will receive the remaining paperwork and make her final ruling, is set for January 22, 2026.