Nicki Minaj Lawsuit Says She Owes $275K to Concert Production Firm

Nicki Minaj is facing a lawsuit that claims she has stiffed a concert production company on $275,000 in fees — and that her reps just keep saying, “We’ll look into this.”

In a lawsuit filed Monday (March 23) in New York, 24/7 Productions (USA) Inc. says the rapper has refused for years to reimburse the company for money it spent producing her performances at HeartRadio’s 2023 Jingle Ball concerts and later that year for her album Pink Friday 2.

“Despite many attempts over the course of nearly two years to ‘chase up’ payment of the 24/7 Invoices, defendants have inexplicably failed to pay any portion,” the company’s lawyers write in a complaint obtained by Billboard.

Adding alleged insult to alleged injury, 24/7’s lawyers say the company was “never given a reason” of any kind for the non-payment over the course of more than two years: “The only responses from defendants’ team [has been] the mantra-like ‘we’ll look into this.’”

The expenses at issue were pre-submitted to and approved by Minaj’s team in an itemized budget, the lawsuit says, then spent by 24/7 “with the express agreement these expenses would be reimbursed by Defendants.” After the shows, her team then allegedly acknowledged the debts and promised to pay them, writing, “We will be able to send you the money for the radio shows as soon as it is received.”

What makes the situation strange, according to 24/7’s lawyers, is that they say Minaj was clearly satisfied with the company’s work, since she later hired the company to provide end-to-end live-event production services for her 79-show Pink Friday 2 tour in 2024. But despite a series of 2024 invoices, Minaj’s team never got around to paying that original $275,000.

“Plaintiff provided the services to Defendants detailed herein at Ms. Minaj’s request,” the company’s lawyers write. The economic benefit conferred upon Ms. Minaj was obtained at Plaintiff’s expense, as Plaintiff has not been compensated for the services (and incurred expenses) that directly enabled the funds to be received by Ms. Minaj.”

Reps for Minaj did not immediately return a request for comment from Billboard.