Man charged after Nicki Minaj's father killed in hit-and-run
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A 70-year-old man has been charged after Nicki Minaj's dad was killed in a hit-and-run.
Robert Maraj, 64, died in hospital on Saturday - a day after the crash in New York.
Nassau County Police said in a news conference they had tracked Charles Polevich's car, and he turned himself in to police.
Polevich has been charged with leaving the scene of an auto accident with a fatality and tampering with evidence.
Police say "the investigation is ongoing", and the rapper hasn't said anything publicly yet.
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Nicki Minaj - whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty - was born in Trinidad and Tobago and raised in the Queens borough of New York City.
She's been nominated for 10 Grammys, won five MTV Video Music Awards and broken the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries by a solo female artist.
She announced she was 'retiring' in 2019 but has released new music since then.
The 38-year-old recently paid $450,000 to the singer Tracy Chapman to settle a copyright dispute after sampling one of her songs.
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