Net Worth: | $100 Million |
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Date of Birth: | December 8, 1982 (41 years old) |
Gender: | Female |
Height: | 5 ft 1 in (1.57 m) |
Profession: | Singer, Actor, Rapper, Musician, Artist, Singer-songwriter, TV Personality, Voice Actor, Composer, Visual Artist |
Nationality: | United State Of America |
How much is Nicki Minaj’s net worth? How does Nicki Minaj make her money? Below is the current net worth of Nicki Minaj and how Nicki Minaj makes her money.
What Is Nicki Minaj’s Net Worth?
Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-American R&B singer and songwriter, model, rapper, and actress who has a net worth of $100 million. She rose to fame through the help of American rapper, Lil Wayne.
Childhood
In Trinidad and Tobago’s Saint James, Onika Tanya Maraj was born on December 8, 1982. In a family of five, she is the third kid. After her mother, Carol, moved to New York City to attend Monroe College, she spent her early years living with her grandmother in Saint James.
Later, when Nicki was five years old, Nicki’s mother relocated the family to Queens, New York. Given that Minaj’s father was a drug and alcohol user, Carol supported the family by working in the payroll and accounting divisions. In December 1987, he set the family home on fire because he was so violent.
Minaj applied for admission and got accepted into the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts; her goal was to become an actress. She was included in the cast of the Off-Broadway play “In Case You Forget.”
After graduating from middle school. In addition to her acting income, she was employed at Red Lobster in the Bronx and fired, afterward, for being disrespectful to customers. According to her, she was fired from 15 more jobs for the same reason.
Career
American rapper, Lil Wayne, found Nicki Minaj. She then signed a contract with his record label and management firm, Young Money Entertainment. In 2007 she dropped her debut mix tape Playtime Is Over.
A year later, she released a number of other mix tapes, including Sucka Free, and was awarded the Female Artist of the Year at the Underground Music Awards that same year.
Minaj recorded her first appearance in the XXL magazine and released two mix tapes, including Beam Me Up Scotty, in 2009.
The Young Money Entertainment company published Minaj’s debut album, Pink Friday, in 2010, and it sold 4 million copies in total before being fully sold out. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, the follow-up album, was released in April 2012.
The album has been purchased a million times. Nicki Minaj was selected as one of the celebrity judges for the American Idol season 2013.
Also, she dropped The Pinkprint, her third studio album, in December 2014, which sold over 650,000 copies worldwide.
Her fourth studio album, Queen was released in August 2018, and it appeared at #2 on the Billboard 200. With sales of over 1 million copies worldwide, the album was certified Platinum in the US.
In May 2017, Nicki broke Aretha Franklin’s record for the highest-charting female artist on the Billboard Hot 100. For more than 40 years, Aretha’s record was played continuously. Nicki is a guest artist on many of Aretha’s Billboard entries, as opposed to Aretha, who was the sole performer on all 73 of her songs.
Over the course of her career, Minaj has signed a substantial number of endorsement deals. In November 2010, she signed her first contract to represent “Pink 4 Friday,” a lipstick from MAC Cosmetics.
In order to promote her album Pink Friday, MAC offered lipstick for sale on four separate Fridays. In April of the following year, Minaj assisted in the Times Square launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.
She also appeared in television and internet adverts for Pepsi’s “LiveForNow” Campaign, the following month.
In October 2017, Minaj was featured in H&M’s Holiday Campaign and she also has a profitable line of fragrances. Remarkably, in the space of ten years, from 2010 to 2020, Minaj earned $166 million, taxes excluded.
Personal Life
Minaj dated rapper Safaree Samuels from 2000 until their breakup in 2014. In early 2015, she started dating rapper Meek Mill and their relationship lasted for two years.
In December 2018, Minaj started dating Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, a childhood friend, and in August of the following year, she filed for a marriage certificate. The couple’s marriage was announced by Nicki Minaj on October 21, 2019.
In July 2011, after leaving a New York City nightclub, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was shot and killed close to his house in Brooklyn. She makes references to the tragedy in her songs Champion and All Things Go.
A case of burglary hit her mansion in Los Angeles and the thieves allegedly threw furniture around, damaging the inside of the house; they also carted away items worth at least $200,000, in February 2017.
Her brother, Jelani Maraj was found guilty of predatory sexual assault against child endangerment, in November 2017, and on January 27, 2020, he was sentenced to 25 years in a New York Court.
Real Estate
Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill rented a mansion in Beverly Hills for $35,000 monthly, in August 2016. It was built on the site of Frank Sinatra’s former residence, in 2008.
The 10,340-square-foot home magnificently overlooks the city and mountains and also features a two-story entrance hall, curved double doors that led outside and a spacious sitting room with a fireplace.
Also, there is a family room, eight bedrooms, a wood-lined library with bookshelves, a formal dining room, and a kitchen-dining room. The area outside the house features a spa, a barbecue and a swimming pool.
Mill moved out after the breakup in 2017, and the mansion was hers entirely. She moved out in February 2018.
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