Nicki Minaj, husband accused of harassing sexual assault victim

<p>Popular Rapper Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, have been accused of harassing and intimidating the victim he sexually assaulted.</p>, <p>Hough narrated that Petty sexually assaulted her at a home in the Queens borough of New York City on Sept. 16, 1994.</p>, <p>Hough, who was 16 at the time of the incident was on her way to school when she saw Petty at a bus stop at the time.</p>, <p>In a lawsuit filed over the weekend, the woman, identified as Jennifer Hough accused the couple of trying to force her to recant the rape allegations.</p>, <p>The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleges that Nicki Minaj even went so far as to bribe Hough.</p>, <p>The suit alleges that Petty and Minaj contacted Hough and members of her family after Petty was arrested last year when authorities said he failed to register as a sex offender in California over the rape case.</p>, <p>According to the lawsuit, Hough’s friend, who offered to help her with the case, received a phone call from Minaj a few days later.</p>, <p>Minaj allegedly told Hough that her publicist would draft up a statement recanting the rape but Hough declined.</p>, <p>“Within days of this conversation, Plaintiff and her family suffered an onslaught of harassing calls and unsolicited visits,” according to the lawsuit.</p>, <p>She further alleged that one of Hough’s family members was offered $500,000 from Nicki Minaj if Hough recanted the rape.</p>, <p>On another occasion, Hough was offered $20,000 if she signed a prepared document retracting her statements about Perry,” the lawsuit state.</p>, <p>It was alleged that Minaj also offered to send happy birthday videos to Hough’s teenage daughter “as a bonus.</p>