American rapper Nicki Minaj’s father died in a traffic accident near New York after a driver hit him before fleeing, police said on Sunday. Robert Maraj, 64, was walking down the street in Mineola, Long Island, around 6:15 p.m. Friday, February 12, 2021, when he was hit by a car, local police said in a statement. The driver fled and Mr Maraj was taken to hospital where he died on Saturday, reports theAFP.
The famous interpreter of hits Starships, Anaconda and Bang Bang seemed to have a particularly adversarial relationship with his father. The latter was also prohibited from approaching the mother of the 38-year-old singer. In 2014, she obtained a restraining order against her husband, a former alcoholic and drug user. Robert Maraj had also had several problems with the justice system in recent years. He had been arrested for driving without a license and while intoxicated, then charged with two felts and misconduct by the New York Supreme Court.
In the documentary Queen, released in 2018, Nicki Minaj told with great emotion how, not without difficulty, in her childhood, she tried to defend her mother against her father, particularly violent. She explained at the same time that she always swore to never let a man treat her the same way. Yet, she married Kenneth Petty, a childhood friend and notorious criminal, in 2019. The latter has indeed spent more than 10 years in prison. In 1994, he was convicted of raping a 16-year-old minor and in 2002, he was again imprisoned for manslaughter after causing the shooting death of a certain Lamont Robinson.
The couple nevertheless seem more in love than ever and welcomed their first child in September 2020, a little boy whose first name is still unknown. The New Yorker, born in Trinidad and Tobago and raised in the neighborhood of Queens, near where her father was killed, surprised her fans in September 2019 by announcing that she was retiring to focus on her career. family life. After her pregnancy, Nicki Minaj then returned to this announcement and promised to release new titles …
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