Kenneth Petty claimed Jennifer Hough’s harassment authorized motion seems for to disgrace him and recommended Nicki Minaj’s financials should keep lined.
Kenneth Petty has truly declined a necessity to show over tax obligation paperwork in a civil occasion linked to his 1994 rape sentence.
Jennifer Hough sued in 2021, asserting Petty and Nicki Minaj tried to frighten her proper into recanting her declarations so Minor can go away a Intercourse Wrongdoer Laptop system registry guidelines.
Petty provided 4 years after begging responsible to tried rape. Hough says the couple’s harassment brought on psychological misery and particular person security and safety worries.
Nicki Minaj was disregarded from the authorized motion in 2022. Hough is presently on the lookout for compensatory damages from Kenneth Petty, the staying accused.
In a reply submitted Thursday (March 27), Petty’s lawful group competes that Hough’s exploration demand was late and incorrectly centered on Nicki Minaj’s particular person and financial particulars.
” [Petty] has truly not made any sort of income in tax obligation years 2022– 2023,” lawyer Steven Isser described. The reply stored in thoughts that Petty and Minaj had truly submitted joint earnings tax return. Petty has truly not but despatched a 2024 return.
” There isn’t a foundation for [Hough] to accumulate [Nicki’s] earnings tax return. Complainant’s steering has made no such proving,” the declaring talked about.
Petty’s group claimed Hough’s attorneys missed out on quite a few exploration due dates whereas trying to broaden the occasion previous its lawful extent.
” [Hough] didn’t search for [Petty’s] earnings tax return or work background up till after the cut-off for exploration had handed,” Isser composed.
The declaring moreover assaulted Hough’s idea that Petty operated in a paid obligation for Minaj as a supervisor, bodyguard, or baby-sitter.
” Complainant’s in want of help conjecture that [Petty] was Ms. Manaj’s supervisor certified to twenty% of her gross revenues and/or was a paid safety personnel for his partner is unreasonable and isn’t sustained by [Petty’s} testimony at his deposition or any other evidence,” the document said.
Petty acknowledged receiving “allotments” from Minaj’s company but claimed those weren’t professional wages or subject to income reporting.
“I offered to provide [Hough] with a certified guidelines of such settlements (a Testimony), as an alternative of producing of the joint earnings tax return,” Isser talked about.
Isser blew up Hough’s legal professional, Tyrone Blackburn, that he declared was as soon as extra going after headings quite than severely trying to carry out lawful exploration.
” [Hough’s] exercise paperwork moreover are cluttered with incorrect declarations, in an effort to amass limelights and to attempt to disgrace [Petty] and his partner,” the reply talked about.
A court docket has but to rule.
