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Nicki Minaj removes husband’s name from Twitter after sexual assault case heats up

Rapper Nicki Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty.

Nicki Minaj has gotten rid of her name Mrs Petty on Twitter after her husband, Kenneth Petty's, sexual assault past came back to haunt the family.

Nicki’s husband and father to their 11-month-old son was arrested in 2020 for refusing to register as a sex offender. He has also served a related four-and-a-half-year sentence in prison for attempting to rape a woman - now 43 - in 1994.

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