Nicki Minaj’s husband has been granted permission to accompany her on her overseas tour.
The “Super Bass” singer is out on the road on her “Pink Friday World Tour” and on April 16, District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald lifted a restriction that will allow Kenneth Petty to travel internationally from now until July 14 while still on probation for failing to register as a sex offender.
“[Petty] shall keep his probation officer updated with the details of his travel itinerary as needed,” documents obtained by People stated. “At the conclusion of the travel, [Petty] must return to Los Angeles and must check in with his probation officer upon returning. Mr. Petty must also provide an itinerary to his probation officer prior to travel and follow all directives of the probation officer.”
“The order granted by the court speaks for itself,” Petty’s lawyer added in a statement:
Petty — who has a three-year-old son with Minaj — had requested the exception on April 15 in order “travel out of the country with his family for his wife’s tour and her professional purposes.”
“[Petty] and [Minaj] believe [Petty] is necessary to accompany the family on the tour for various purposes, including childcare,” the filing added, noting the schedule included stops in Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland and Romania.
According to the documents, the government took “no position” after being notified of the request, and his probation officer had “no objections.”
In April 1995, Petty was jailed for four years as a level two registered sex offender in New York after being convicted of attempted rape in the first degree for an 1994 assault of a then-16-year-old girl.
In March 2020, he was arrested again after failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to California from Miami, to which he pleaded guilty and posted $100,000 bail.
In July 2022, he was sentenced to a year of house arrest and three years of probation, as well as given a $55,000 fine.
