Music artist Kenneth Petty has made headlines for his relationship with Nicki Minaj.
The Trinidadian-born rapper has been married to Kenneth Petty since 2019.
How do you know Kenneth Petty?
Petty, who also goes by the nickname Zoo, was born in Queens, New York, on April 7, 1972.
The 43-year-old currently works within the music industry.
Petty has appeared in two of Minaj’s music videos, including Megatron and Hot Girl Summer.
Petty and Minaj’s history dates back to when she was just 16-years-old.
The two knew each other before the fame and even dated way back when, it’s reported that he was one of her first Real relationships.
Is there a criminal record for Kenneth Petty?
Despite his fame and success, he does have a criminal record after a 1995 conviction.
Petty is a registered sex offender who spent four years behind bars after being convicted of first-degree attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Following his release from jail, he then served a second prison sentence from 2006-2013 after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter charges.
Following his marriage to Minaj he was then arrested for a third time after failing to register as a sex offender in California, where he moved to with his wife.
Under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, offenders are legally required to update registration in “each jurisdiction they reside, are employed, or attend school.”
Following his arrest, he pled not guilty and was released on a $100,000 bond and had to wear an ankle monitor and follow a strict curfew, but he later changed his plea to guilty on September 9, 2021 and will now face up to 10 years in jail and a lifetime of supervised release.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in January of 2022.
When were Kenneth and Nicky’s children born?
Minaj announced that the couple were expecting on July 20, 2020, with a glam shot of herself cradling her bump on social media.
She posted on Instagram: “I had the worst morning sickness of all time. Didn’t know morning sickness could last all day either.”
The singer then gave birth to their baby boy on Wednesday, September 30, in Los Angeles, a source close to the pair confirmed to The Sun.
At the time, Petty had to get special permission to be present at the birth because it was outside his curfew hours.
How many relationships did Nicki Minaj have?
Before she decided to settle down and start a family, Minaj was linked to some pretty high profile celebrities back in the day.
For more than a decade, Minaj dated rapper Safaree Samuels before calling it quits back in 2011.
In 2015, Samuels dropped a new song in which he came after his ex for their messy break up.
“No one will love you like I did, 12 years up in flames, I thought you woulda had my kid,” he sang.
Following her break up from Samuels, Minaj then had a fling with Drake.
While they both denied being romantically involved, Drake starred in her music video for the 2014 hit Anaconda, where she gave him a lap dance, Drake also never hid the fact that he was crushing on her, adding to the rumors.
For two years, Minaj then dated rapper Meek Mill.
Following their split, she also had dating rumors with rappers Nas, and Eminem before reuniting with Petty.
