Emcee Nicki Minaj appeared during the MTV Video Music Awards last fall. Charles Sykes/Invision via Associated Press Rapper and pop star Nicki Minaj was reportedly arrested in the Netherlands on Saturday after police said they found drugs in her luggage when she tried to board a plane for a concert in England, which was subsequently postponed. Minaj documented the incident on social media, including in footage she appears to have shot at an airport near Amsterdam.
In one video, a man in a gray suit, whom Minaj later identified as her pilot, apologetically informed her that police needed to search all her luggage. “He doesn’t believe you, that you have more with you than you say,” the man says. “He asked me if I had any more in my purses and I said no!” Minaj replies.
In another video, an officer tells Minaj to go to a police station. The footage shows Minaj, 41, refusing to do so and demanding a lawyer. She wrote on the social media platform X that authorities had found “weed” – or marijuana – in her baggage, which she said belonged to one of her security guards.
Robert Van Kapel, a spokesperson for the Netherlands military police, told the Associated Press that the agency had arrested a 41-year-old American woman on suspicion of “exporting soft drugs.” Police later said the woman arrested at Schiphol Airport had been fined and allowed to continue on her journey. Dutch authorities did not immediately respond to questions from The Washington Post.
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