Nicki Minaj is now being asked to pay a fee as her legal battle with former manager Brandon Jovan Garrett takes another sharp turn. Garrett has filed new court papers requesting a judge order the rapper to provide fuller responses to written questions and pay a $3,900 penalty tied to alleged delays in the case.
The lawsuit, originally filed in January 2025 in Los Angeles Superior Court, stems from claims that Minaj assaulted Garrett backstage at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit following her April 21, 2024 Pink Friday 2 World Tour stop. Garrett accuses Minaj of assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Her company, Pink Personality Inc., is also named as a defendant.
According to the latest filing, Garrett’s legal team says Minaj missed a mid-February deadline to answer written discovery requests. They claim an extension was granted at her attorney’s request, but when responses finally arrived on March 6, they were “patently deficient” and “consisted entirely of vague, repetitive boilerplate objections and were devoid of any substantive information or answers.”
The filing further accuses Minaj of “repeated delays” and submitting “sham responses” that have “obstructed the discovery process, impeded plaintiff’s ability to advance the case and unnecessarily burdened plaintiff with additional legal expenses.”
Garrett’s attorneys want Judge Eric Harmon to compel complete answers ahead of an August 5 hearing.
The questions reportedly ask Minaj to detail facts supporting any denial that she threatened Garrett’s safety, and whether she believes he “had no reasonable apprehension of imminent harm.”
Minaj, born Onika Tanya Maraj, has not publicly addressed the newest filing.
