Nicki Minaj’s Husband, Kenneth Petty Sentenced To Probation And In-Home Detention After Failure to Register As S€x Offender

Kenneth Petty, American music executive and husband to famed rapper Nicki Minaj, has been sentenced after proving guilty for refusing to register as a sex offender in the state court of California in 2020.

On Wednesday, at Los Angeles during the court proceedings Petty, was sentenced to three years probation and a year of In-home detention, the US attorney has also ordered him to pay a sum of $55,00 fine, daily mail reported.

44-year-old Petty, was found guilty in a September proceedings and during that period, faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. Before Wednesday’s court date, Petty sentencing was postponed multiple times.

Petty, has in the past faced legal charges after his being drag by the Beverly Hills Police Department on November 15, 2019 when the department found out he was registered as a sex offender in New York but not in his city of residence, California, TMZ previously reported.

Petty is required to register as a sex offender, as he was convicted for the first-degree attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1995. He was sentenced to 18 to 54 months, but spent four years in prison. Petty is a level two registered offender in New York, which means he’s considered a “moderate risk of repeat offense.”

In August, Petty’s alleged rape victim, Jennifer Hough, filed a lawsuit against him and Minaj, 39, in which she accused the pair of attempting to intimidate her into recanting her rape accusation.

The lawsuit also accused Petty and Minaj, who married in October 2019, of intentional infliction of emotional distress and alleged that the couple had offered Hough up to $500,000 to recant her claims.

The suit was then dropped by Hough in January, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.

“The case against Nicki was voluntarily dismissed. The case against Kenneth Petty is still ongoing.  Stay tuned!” Hough’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, told PEOPLE at the time.

Minaj’s lawyer, Judd Bernstein, told Hough’s lawyer he was pleased that Hough and Blackburn “came to their senses,” according to an email obtained by PEOPLE.

“Your conduct in pursuing this case against Nicki represents the worst of our legal system: bottom-feeding lawyers who pursue frivolous actions against a celebrity assuming that they will be paid off if they throw up enough dirt,” he wrote.

Bernstein added, “It is just the beginning of Nicki’s and my efforts to make you pay for your disgraceful conduct with both money and, if the Court recommends it, disciplinary sanctions.”