Kenneth Petty, the husband of singer Nicki Minaj, was convicted of attempted rape in 1995 and later pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender. He was sentenced in the registration case in 2022.

Kenneth Petty’s convictions

Petty was convicted in April 1995 of attempted rape in an assault on a 16-year-old girl the previous year. He was sentenced to 18 to 54 months in prison and listed as a level two registered sex offender in New York.

He was arrested in 2020 for failing to register as a sex offender. After initially pleading not guilty, he pleaded guilty in September 2021.

Sentence and relationship with Minaj

In 2022, Petty was sentenced to one year of house arrest, three years of probation and a $55,000 fine in the registration case.

Petty and Minaj met as teenagers, reconnected in 2018 and married in 2019. They welcomed a son in 2020.

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