Nicki Minaj’s neighbors in Hidden Hills want her to move over concerns about her husband Kenny Petty as he wraps his one year of in-home detention for failing to register as a sex offender

Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty are reportedly at the center of a petition, started by their Hidden Hills neighbors, asking them to move over ‘safety concerns.’

In addition to voicing fears that the 45-year-old registered sex offender’s move to the area would lower appraisal value, one Calabasas inhabitant, named Beverly Bardan, has collected more than 886 signatures, on Change.org, to signify his community is ‘against sex offenders in [their] Hidden Hills neighborhood.’ 

On the petition platform, he urges ‘resident’s safety first’ and states that the 40-year-old rap superstar’s spouse is a ‘level 3 sex offender, convicted for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old-girl.’

Bardan also claims that Petty has a ‘high likelihood to reoffend’ and is ‘is currently under house arrest for failing to register as a sex offender in California as law demands it.’

‘The Petty couple moving in would lead to appraisal value of our homes to go DOWN due to safety concerns. It would lead to children and women being a target,’ Bardan added. ‘Don’t wait to receive a letter from the government saying a predator has moved in near you.’

The petition was first started in December, 2022, after the couple purchased a $19.5 million home in the same gated community as as Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian.

It has recently regained some traction, according to TMZ, after Petty ‘recently filed new legal docs changing his address on the Megan’s Law website.’

This week, 529 people signed Bardan’s online petition as Petty wraps his home detention for failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to California with his wife.

While he avoided a 10-year jail sentence, Petty was ordered to pay a $55,000 fine. 

Petty, who married Minaj, 39, in 2019, plead guilty back in September, 2022, on a federal count of failing to register as a sex offender. 

While he was looking at a maximum prison sentence of 10 years with a lifetime of supervised release, he was sentenced to just one year of in-home detention, and three years of probation, according to CBS Los Angeles. 

Petty was convicted of first-degree attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1995, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison. 

Petty started dating Minaj in 2018 and they tied the knot a year later and moved to California.

Neighborhood outrage: In addition to voicing fears that the 45-year-old registered sex offender’s move to the area would lower appraisal value , one Calabasas inhabitant, named Beverly Bardan, has collected more than 886 signatures, on Change.org , to signify his community is ‘against sex offenders in [their] Hidden Hills neighborhood’ (seen in May 2022)

Concerns: On the petition platform, he urges ‘resident’s safety first’ and states that the 40-year-old rap superstar’s spouse is a ‘level 3 sex offender, convicted for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old-girl’

Collecting signatures: This week, 529 people signed Bardan’s online petition as Petty wraps his home detention for failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to California with his wife

Petty was pulled over by the Beverly Hills Police Department in November 2019, and discovered he was a registered sex offender in New York, though he had not registered in California when he moved, which he’s required to do.

Petty plead guilty, at the time, but his hearing has been delayed several times before the sentence was handed out.

Prosecutors were recommending 15 months of prison time and five years of supervised release, and not a home detention, since he lives with Minaj in a gated community in Calabasas, which they contended was not much of a ‘punishment.’

The judge ultimately disagreed, sentencing petty to one year of in-home detention, plus three years of probation, and a $55,000 fine.

Immediate backlash: The petition was first started in December, 2022, after the couple purchased a $19.5 million home in the same gated community as as Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian 

Family first: The couple share a little boy, nicknamed Papa Bear, who she welcomed on September 30, 2020 (pictured in 2019)

Petty was also in legal trouble in August, when Jennifer Hough, Petty’s alleged rape victim, filed a lawsuit against both him and Minaj. 

Hough claimed that both Minaj and Petty tried to coerce her into recanting her rape accusation, and they even offered her $500,000 to do so.

She also accused them of inflicting emotional distress, though she voluntarily dropped the lawsuit against Minaj.

‘The case against Nicki was voluntarily dismissed. The case against Kenneth Petty is still ongoing. Stay tuned!” Hough’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn said.