Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty, has avoided a 10-year prison sentence after failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to California with his wife.
The 44-year-old will instead be forced to remain at his multi-million dollar Calabasas mansion under house arrest for the next year and will be ordered to pay a fine of $55 (€53.8).
Petty, who married Minaj, 39, in 2019, pleaded guilty in September to a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
While he was considering a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison with a lifetime of supervised release, he was sentenced Wednesday to just one year of house arrest and three years of probation, according to CBS Los Angeles.
Petty was convicted of attempted first-degree rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1995, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison. Dailymail.
He is considered a second-degree offender in New York State, which equates to him being considered a 'moderate risk of reoffending.'
Petty began dating Minaj in 2018 and they married a year later and moved to California.
He retired from the Beverly Hills Police Department in November 2019 and revealed that he was a registered sex offender in New York, although he had not registered in California when he moved, which he is required to do.
Petty pleaded guilty at the time, but his hearing has been postponed several times before sentencing.
Prosecutors were recommending 15 months in prison and five years of supervised release, rather than house arrest, as he lives with Minaj in a gated community in Calabasas, which they claimed was not a "large" sentence.
Petty was also in legal trouble in August when Jennifer Hough, Petty's alleged rape victim, filed a lawsuit against him and Minaj.
Hough claimed that Minaj and Petty tried to get her to drop her rape accusation, and they even offered her $500 to do so.
She also accused them of causing emotional distress, though she voluntarily dropped the lawsuit against Minaj. /telegraph/
