An individual seen wandering through the backyard of Minaj’s Hidden Hills home was apprehended by Sheriff’s Department deputies Wednesday morning.

Trespasser arrested at Nicki Minaj’s Los Angeles mansion

An individual seen wandering through the backyard of Minaj's Hidden Hills home was apprehended by Sheriff's Department deputies Wednesday morning.

By Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman

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A trespasser has been arrested at Nicki Minaj's Los Angeles home.

The man was arrested after being apprehended while wandering through Minaj's backyard on Wednesday morning, an officer with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's Hidden Hills station confirmed.

The individual was seen wandering around the rapper's mansion in the neighborhood northwest of Los Angeles by neighbors, who called law enforcement. Minaj was not home at the time of the incident, TMZ reported Wednesday.

Nicki Minaj with husband Kenneth Petty in New York City in 2020.

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Minaj's $20 million Hidden Hills home was at the center of a contentious, years-long legal battle that was settled in January.

The rapper and her husband, Kenneth Petty, were ordered to pay roughly $500,000 to a former security guard who accused Petty of assault at a 2019 concert in Germany. After Minaj and Petty failed to make that payment, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge was expected to authorize the sale of the home to satisfy the judgment, but Minaj paid the sum in full, avoiding a court-ordered sale.

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Minaj and Petty were married in 2019. They share one child, Papa Bear, who is 5. Petty pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender in California in 2021.

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The "Starships" and "Anaconda" rapper, 43, has recently taken heat for her turn toward the conservative end of the political spectrum. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who is gay, blasted Minaj after she referred to him in a January social media post using a homophobic slur.

"People have been asking about responding to Nicki Minaj's unhinged, homophobic tweet about me," Lemon said at the time. "I usually don't respond to this stuff, but let me just say this: Nicki Minaj, stop talking about s--- which you know nothing about. This is out of your depth, by the way. And you are a homophobic bigot."

Later that month, Minaj celebrated becoming one of the first recipients of a "Trump gold card." The new immigration program, inaugurated by President Donald Trump, awards citizenship to anyone who, pending background approval, can "contribute" $1 million to the United States government, on top of a $15,000 processing fee.

"Finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak as per MY wonderful, gracious, charming President," Minaj wrote in a social media post, showing off the card emblazoned with Trump's face. "Oh CitizenNIKA you are thee moment. Gold Trump card free of charge."

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