Nicki Minaj’s former manager claims she delayed his assault lawsuit—he is now seeking a court order for her to pay
Brandon Garrett asserts that Nicki Minaj postponed her responses in the case alleging her involvement in a backstage assault following a concert in Detroit.
Nicki Minaj is currently facing a request to pay a fee as her legal dispute with former manager Brandon Jovan Garrett takes a significant turn. Garrett has submitted new court documents asking a judge to compel the rapper to give more comprehensive answers to written inquiries and to impose a $3,900 fine related to purported delays in the case.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2025 in Los Angeles Superior Court, arises from allegations that Minaj assaulted Garrett backstage at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit after her April 21, 2024, Pink Friday 2 World Tour performance. Garrett claims that Minaj committed assault and battery and intentionally inflicted emotional distress. Pink Personality Inc., her company, is also named as a defendant.
Garrett’s legal team claims that Minaj failed to meet a mid-February deadline for responding to written discovery requests, as stated in the most recent filing. They assert that an extension was granted at her attorney’s request; however, when the responses finally arrived on March 6, they were described as “patently deficient” and “consisted entirely of vague, repetitive boilerplate objections and were devoid of any substantive information or answers.”
The filing also alleges that Minaj has engaged in “repeated delays” and provided “sham responses” that have “obstructed the discovery process, hindered the plaintiff’s ability to progress the case, and unnecessarily imposed additional legal expenses on the plaintiff.”
Garrett’s legal team is requesting that Judge Eric Harmon mandate thorough responses prior to the hearing scheduled for August 5.
The inquiries allegedly require Minaj to provide specifics backing any denial of threatening Garrett’s safety, as well as her perspective on whether he “lacked a reasonable apprehension of imminent harm.”
Minaj, whose full name is Onika Tanya Maraj, has yet to make a public statement regarding the latest filing.
