Nicki Minaj has been the victim of yet another swatting attempt at her Los Angeles home, this time with the caller alleging a shooting had happened.
According to TMZ, police showed up at Minaj’s Hidden Hills property around 7pm on Wednesday (April 9) after an unidentified person called the sheriff’s business line to say that someone had shot a Black woman there and that two people were still at the scene.
Of course when police showed up, they found no such issue and the call was classified as a swatting attempt. Minaj and her family were not home at the time.
The caller has not yet been identified.
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A similar incident happened in June 2023 when someone called in false claims of child abuse and a house fire at Minaj’s residence.
The person was later identified, and the rapper was quick to out her on social media.
“To the woman who made those swatting calls to my home,”she wrote. “#WasItWorthItDumbo ?”
She then name-dropped the individual, adding: “Stephanie Bell/ A warrant is in the system. Great detective work. So grateful./ The DA filed one count for the swatting call and one for the false report to DCFS./ To God be the glory.”
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The authorities confirmed to TMZ that Bell was charged with intentionally reporting a false emergency, with an arrest warrant also being issued in her name.
In other news, Nicki Minaj has received an apology from Erica Mena – who said their mutual ex Safaree had turned her against the Pink Friday rap icon, which she regrets.
Mena was a guest on Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast a few months back. Almost immediately, she began discussing her contentious divorce from Safaree, the former L&HH star and musician who was a longterm partner of Minaj’s in the aughts and 2010s.
Mena said that she realized Safaree had been cheating, which made her re-think her previously negative opinion of Minaj — an opinion, she said, that had been influenced by Safaree’s lies.
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“I owe her the biggest apology ever,” Mena said of Nicki.
She explained that, because she was being “love bombed” by Safaree, she took him at his word when he discussed “all the things [Nicki] did to him.”
“It’s funny how life comes full circle,” Mena noted. “Because the same thing he did to her, he’s doing to me years later.
“I remember him pouring his heart out to me about all the stuff she did to him, showing me videos of her reacting. I didn’t think to ask, well, what did you do to her?”
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She recalled that Safaree was at one point “saying whatever he could to ruin [Minaj’s] career and take [credit] for her…work.”
“I owe this woman an apology because I sat there and allowed him to talk about her to me. And from that came me defending and vouching for him in a way that was tacky, because at the end of the day, I didn’t know the truth.
“It comes full circle,” she continued. “Tables always turn. Everything she has ever said about him is true. Everything that she went through with him, I’m going through it worse.”
