Megan Thee Stallion is suing a YouTuber and social media personality who she claims is a “mouthpiece and puppet.” Tory Lanezaccusing the woman of “lying” about the criminal case stemming from Lanez's shooting.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the rapper's (Megan Pitt) lawyers were accused. Milagro Gramz (Milagro Elizabeth Cooper) for waging a public campaign to “hybridize, degrade, insult and spread false statements” about her.
That reportedly included Gramz sharing a pornographic “deepfake” depicting the rapper — a move Meghan's lawyers say violates a Florida law that prohibits “sexually altered depictions” of real people.
“Enough is enough,” Meghan's attorneys at the Quinn Emanuel law firm wrote. “Ms. Pitt—a victim of violent crime and champion of women's rights to her millions of fans worldwide—will no longer support the defendant's campaign of harassment.”
The lawsuit also accused Gramz of cyberstalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy.
In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), Gramz acknowledged the lawsuit, saying she was “informed that she is suing me Alex Spiro on behalf of his client Megan Thee Stallion.” After quoting a threatening letter, he said, “Of course we'll talk about it. They dropped the tape, too.”
The new case came just days after a false story about Megan and Lanez — which falsely claimed an appeals court had declared them “not guilty” in the shooting — circulated on social media. Spiro, Meghan's long-time lawyer, warned yesterday that he was planning legal action over such “nonsense”.
Lanez (Daystar Peterson) was convicted in December 2022 of three felony counts for the violent 2020 incident in which he shot Meghan in the legs during an argument after a pool party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home. In August 2023 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He has filed an appeal, which is pending.
In the new lawsuit, Meghan's attorneys say Grams has repeatedly lied about the case, including disputing whether she was shot and claiming he was “caught trying to defraud the courts.” More recently, they say Gramz advanced the “outlandish claim” that the gun used in the shooting was missing.
“Defendant Cooper's statements recklessly ignored the truth and suggested that the gun was never produced in court because it had allegedly disappeared. He hasn't,” Meghan's lawyers write. “The gun remains in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department.”
As for the deepfake video, the lawsuit doesn't accuse Gramz of creating or directly posting the video, but claims she “encouraged her followers” to watch it, including by pointing users to a post that had directly shared the video.
“Defendant Cooper willfully and maliciously promoted the Deepfake video without Ms. Pitt's consent,” Meghan's lawyers wrote.
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