Minaj left the Intercontinental late for her gig in Malahide and sources say only for the professionalism of her limousine driver and garda motorbike escort she might not have made it at all Nicki Minaj Nicki Minaj flew out of Ireland this afternoon and back to her mansion in Los Angeles after overstaying her trip here since her controversial concert at Malahide Castle in Dublin on Saturday night. The Trinidad-born ‘Queen of Rap’ had been due to play a gig in Romania last night, but cancelled it due to “safety issues” over a planned protest in the capital Bucharest this evening. We can exclusively reveal the 41-year old star was holed up in the Intercontinental Hotel in Ballsbridge on the capital’s southside since early Saturday morning.
Joining her in a luxury suite was her three-year-old son, affectionately known as ‘Papa Bear’, and her mother Carol. They flew out of Dublin Airport this afternoon with assistants on a private jet for Los Angeles. There was no sign though of Nicki’s husband Kenneth ‘Zoo’ Petty, whom she first met in high school and reconnected with in 2018.
Petty has trouble getting an entry visa for several counties as he is a registered sex offender and also a convicted killer. He was convicted of attempted rape in the first degree in April 1995 for an assault of a then 16-year-old girl when he was 15 in 1994, serving four years in a New York prison. Petty was convicted of shooting dead a man named Lamont Robinson in 2002.
He was sentenc.
