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Nicki Minaj has avoided losing her $20 million mansion in California over a debt she owed to a security guard.

Thomas Weidenmüller won a $500,000 default judgment against the rapper and her husband, Kenneth Petty, in 2024.

The security guard accused Petty of breaking his jaw backstage at a concert in the lawsuit filed in 2019.

Minaj was almost forced to sell her home in Hidden Hills to satisfy the debt, but she avoided the need to do that on January 22nd.

Weidenmüller’s lawyer, Paul Saso, told Rolling Stone, “She has satisfied the judgment. It required us going to the one-yard line.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Cindy Pánuco was close to ordering Minaj to sell her home, but an agreement was made at the “eleventh-hour.”

“I wanted to make sure we got this right. It was a big thing,” Pánuco said. “I’m glad this was resolved in a way that makes sense for all of the parties.”

Saso spoke more about how Weidenmüller is feeling after the legal case finally came to a conclusion.

“He’s incredibly gratified and happy,” he said. “It’s been a long time coming to have justice finally done here. He’s very happy for himself. He suffered a very heinous attack, years ago, and not only did it take years to achieve the judgment, but it then took nearly two years in order to enforce that judgment.”

He added that he never expected the lawsuit to “put a levee on a multimillionaire’s house, and go to the last 24 hours before she decides to satisfy the judgment.”

Minaj released her last album, Pink Friday 2, in 2024, debuting at number one with 228,000 units in its first week.