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Just hours after they reported that Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty’s neighbors were starting a petition to evict them from their Hidden Hills home, TMZ said the petition was an elaborate prank by Cardi B fans .
“We as Nicki-Antis can turn Hidden Hills residents AGAINST Nicki and her pedophile husband moving in and damage their assets in the process,” one fan tweeted, per TMZ, which alleges that the same fan created the petition then named : Beverly Bardan.
More than 800 people signed the petition urging the couple to move as Petty is a registered sex offender. The petition claimed that Petty, who lives in the neighborhood, would lower the home’s value because he is a registered sex offender with “a high likelihood of re-offending.” (Other celebrities in Hidden Hills include Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Jada and Will Smith.)
In 1994, Jennifer Hough, then 16, told police that Petty, also 16, raped her after holding her with a knife. Petty was charged with first-degree rape, later pleaded guilty to attempted rape, and served more than four years in prison on those charges, the New York Times reported. In 2006, according to People, Petty went to prison again for seven years after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a man named Lamont Robinson — which was also mentioned in the fake petition. Petty is currently under house arrest for failing To as a sex offender when the couple moved to California.
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