A 36-year-old man named Leland Adams was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge early Wednesday after entering the property of rapper Nicki Minaj at her Calabasas, California residence. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the arrest to USA Today Today.
According to the sheriff’s department, Adams was found on the property and refused to leave when confronted by security personnel. He was detained by security until deputies arrived and took him into custody without further incident. Adams was booked into the sheriff’s Lost Hills station. No bail amount was listed in available records at the time of reporting.
Surveillance footage showed Adams moving through the backyard. He did not gain access to the home itself, and no injuries were reported. It is unclear whether Minaj or her family were present at the time.
Not the first security concern at this address
The trespassing incident is the latest in a series of security-related events connected to Minaj’s Los Angeles property. In 2025, the home was the subject of multiple swatting incidents, including one in which armed officers responded to a false emergency report while her young son was inside. Minaj spoke publicly about those incidents, expressing frustration at what she characterized as a pattern targeting her safety.
The Calabasas property has also been at the center of legal disputes unrelated to security. In 2024, a judge ruled that Minaj was required to pay a $500,000 judgment to a German security guard named Thomas Weidenmüller, who alleged that her husband Kenneth Petty assaulted him during a stop on the Nicki WRLD Tour in 2019. When Minaj initially declined to pay, the court ordered her 11,000-square-foot Hidden Hills home, valued at approximately $20 million, to be sold to satisfy the judgment. She and Petty avoided the sale by making a last-minute payment to Weidenmüller in January.
A separate lawsuit followed in March
In March, production company 24/7 Productions (USA) Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming Minaj failed to pay $275,000 for services rendered during her performance at iHeartRadio’s 2023 Jingle Ball concerts and the launch of her album Pink Friday 2 in December of that year. According to the company’s legal filing, multiple attempts to collect payment over nearly two years went unanswered. The company noted that despite the unpaid invoices, it continued working on her Pink Friday 2 World Tour in 2024.
Minaj’s representatives had not responded to requests for comment on either the trespassing incident or the production company lawsuit as of the time of publication.
Where Minaj has been publicly
Minaj has maintained a visible public profile in recent months, much of it connected to her vocal support for President Donald Trump. She attended the Trump Accounts Summit in late January and described herself as one of his most devoted supporters. During a February appearance on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, wife of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, Minaj explained that watching Trump face sustained public criticism reminded her of treatment she felt she had experienced herself, and that the parallel motivated her to speak out on his behalf.
The trespassing arrest adds to an ongoing series of incidents that have kept her California home in the news for reasons that have nothing to do with her music.
