WARNING: This story contains discussions of rape. 

The harassment case filed by Jennifer Hough, the alleged rape victim of Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty, has been “voluntarily dismissed,” but the couple’s legal woes look to be far from ended. 

TMZ reported the case against Petty, in which Hough accuses him of raping her when she was 16 years old, is still pending. In August, Hough filed a harassment complaint, alleging the “Super Bass” rapper and her husband tried to intimidate her into recanting her accusation. 

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“He did something a long time ago and he had consequences that he was supposed to stick with. What they did to me and my family wasn’t OK,” she said during an interview on The Real. “It wasn’t right and it doesn’t matter how much money you have. It doesn’t matter what your status is, you can’t intimidate people to make things go better for you. And that’s what they did.” 

In 1995, Petty was found guilty of first-degree attempted rape and spent four years in prison. 

Hough filed a $500,000 complaint against the pair, accusing them of deliberate infliction of emotional distress as well as alleged sexual assault and battery in relation to the 1994 rape incident. The lawsuit claimed Hough received numerous harassing calls and visits from others linked with the pair in an effort to force her hand at recanting. 

She was allegedly offered her $20,000 in exchange for signing a prepared statement recanting her accusation. 

Hough claimed on The Real that when she declined the money, she received a message saying she should have taken the money because it is now going to be used as a bounty on her head—a threat that forced her to change her phone number and relocate several times. 

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Minaj’s lawyer, Judd Bernstein, said the dropping of the harassment lawsuit is “just the beginning” of his and his client’s efforts to make Hough pay for her “disgraceful conduct” with both money and disciplinary consequences, if approved by the court. 

There was reportedly no financial settlement that resulted in this dismissal of the lawsuit, per TMZ. 

“Your conduct in pursuing this case against Nicki [Minaj] 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,” Bernstein said, per PEOPLE. 

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PEOPLE reported in New York, Petty is classified as a level two registered offender, meaning he poses a “moderate risk of repeat offense.” He was arrested in March 2020 after for failing to register as a sexual offender in California, a charge he previously pleaded not guilty to. 

He has since changed his plea and faces up to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. 

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