A man was arrested early Wednesday for trespassing after being found on Nicki Minaj’s Hidden Hills mansion property in Los Angeles.
According to USA Today, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department confirmed that 36-year-old Leland Adams was taken into custody early Wednesday in Northwest Los Angeles. Police shared that Adams didn’t enter the home.
Los Angeles jail records show that a 36-year-old named Leland Adams was booked at the Lost Hills station on Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge.
TMZ also reported that Minaj was not home at the time of the individual trespassing onto the Queens rapper’s property.
Minaj’s Hidden Hills home was at the center of an assault lawsuit. A judge ruled in 2024 that Minaj had to pay a $500,000 judgment to German security guard Thomas Weidenmüller for her husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, who allegedly assaulted Weidenmüller during a stop on the Nicki WRLD Tour in 2019.
With Minaj initially refusing to pay up, the judge ordered that the 11,000-square-foot home in Hidden Hills, California, valued at $20 million, be sold to satisfy the lawsuit ruling. Minaj and Petty avoided the mansion’s sale by making an eleventh-hour payment to Weidenmüller in January.
The “Super Bass” rapper was slapped with another lawsuit in March, when production company 24/7 Productions (USA) Inc. claimed that Minaj stiffed them out of $275,000 for services when she performed at iHeartRadio’s 2023 Jingle Ball concerts as well as the launch of Pink Friday 2 in December 2023.
“Despite many attempts over the course of nearly two years to ‘chase up’ payment of the 24/7 Invoices, defendants have inexplicably failed to pay any portion,” the production company’s lawyers told Billboard.
Even after missing the original six-figure payments, the company still worked on Minaj’s record-breaking Pink Friday 2 World Tour in 2024.
Billboard has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department and Minaj’s reps for comment.
