Nicki Minaj Seeks Dismissal From $275K Concert Debt Lawsuit, Calls Claim "Baseless"

Nicki Minaj is fighting to remove herself personally from a lawsuit alleging she owes $275,000 to a concert production company, with her attorneys arguing the case amounts to little more than an attempt to target a celebrity with deep pockets.

24/7 Productions filed suit against Minaj and her company, Pink Friday Productions, earlier this year, claiming the star never reimbursed costs tied to her 2023 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball performances and a separate round of production work later that year connected to her album Pink Friday 2. The company alleged it had spent nearly two years trying to collect the debt without success.

Minaj's legal team filed its first formal response to the lawsuit last week, and the filing pushes back hard on the idea that the singer should be named as a defendant at all. Her attorneys argue that the entire basis of the lawsuit rests on a contract between 24/7 Productions and Pink Friday, not between the company and Minaj as an individual, and that the plaintiff has improperly conflated the two.

According to the original complaint, filed in March, 24/7 Productions said it made repeated attempts over roughly two years to secure payment, and that Minaj's team offered no explanation for the nonpayment beyond vague assurances that the matter was being looked into. The production company's frustration with what it described as a lack of accountability formed a central part of its original case.

Minaj's response argues that distinction matters legally. Her attorneys contend she was never personally responsible for any services rendered or expenses advanced, and that any financial obligation belongs to the corporate entity rather than to her as an individual. They argue that separating a performer from her loan-out company is standard practice in the entertainment industry and that treating the two as interchangeable misstates how the underlying business relationship actually worked.

The lawsuit also included a claim of unjust enrichment, arguing that Minaj personally benefited financially from the production work in question. Her attorneys dismissed that theory as an opportunistic legal maneuver designed primarily to keep her attached to the case rather than a legitimate basis for liability.

They wrote that the claim represents "an ill-advised attempt to sue a famous deep-pocket," and argue it is a well-established legal principle that a corporate officer cannot be held personally liable for unjust enrichment when the work in question was performed under an agreement with the company itself.

The case adds to a string of financial and legal disputes that have followed Minaj in recent months. In January, a judge threatened to force the sale of her Los Angeles-area home after she fell behind on a $500,000 judgment owed to a concert security guard who alleged he was assaulted by her husband; she ultimately paid the judgment before the property could be seized. Just last week, separately, a law firm sued Minaj claiming she owes roughly $230,000 in unpaid legal fees stemming from an earlier copyright case.

Taken together, the disputes paint a picture of a busy stretch of litigation for the rapper, even as her attorneys work to narrow her personal exposure in the concert production case.