A judge sentenced Charles Polevich to one year for hit-and-run crash that killed Robert Maraj, Nicki Minaj's father. Maraj's widow called the sentence a "slap in the face for the family."
Kenneth Petty received three years of probation and one of home confinement for failing to register as a sex offender — a requirement of his 1995 attempted rape conviction.
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj offered staunch defenses of their fellow rapper and collaborator 21 Savage, who was the subject of a joke on Twitter from Republican pundit Tomi Lahren after he was arrested by ICE.
“I had to lie and tell them I was trying to kill myself,” tweeted Safaree Samuels, after Nicki Minaj said that he stole her credit cards to pay for prostitutes.
A so-called Hollytwood bling ring has hit celebrities like Nicki Minaj, A$AP Rocky, Amber Rose and Mariah Carey, taking hundreds of thousands in jewelery and cash.