Megan Thee Stallion stated in a court docket submitting that Lanez is harassing her from jail via surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for taking pictures her within the ft.
LOS ANGELES — Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket on Tuesday to difficulty a restraining order in opposition to Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail via surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for taking pictures her within the ft.
The petition filed by the hip-hop star in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom asks the decide to stop the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson, from utilizing third events to proceed the identical on-line harassment of Megan, whose authorized title is Megan Pete, that he engaged in and inspired earlier than his imprisonment.
“Even now, whereas behind bars, Mr. Peterson reveals no indicators of stopping,” the petition says. “Regardless of being sentenced to 10 years in jail for taking pictures Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to topic her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”
The petition says jail name logs from Lanez on the California Correctional Establishment in Tehachapi present that he’s coordinating assaults on Megan’s credibility.
An electronic mail looking for remark from Lanez’s attorneys was not instantly returned. A court docket listening to on the order is scheduled for Jan. 9.
The submitting says bloggers appearing on Lanez behalf proceed to solid doubt on her allegations, making false claims together with that the gun and bullet fragments within the case are lacking.
The petition says the protecting order issued to stop the earlier harassment is now not in impact, which it calls a loophole and flaw within the felony justice system.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
A decide rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who’re interesting his conviction.
In August of final yr, he acquired the 10-year sentence, bringing what gave the impression to be a conclusion to a three-year authorized and cultural saga that noticed two careers, and lives, thrown into turmoil.
The petition says that one blogger particularly, Elizabeth Milagro Cooper, whom Megan is suing in a separate lawsuit, is appearing as Lanez “puppet and mouthpiece.” She alleges Cooper is spreading falsehoods on social media and YouTube, saying in a single video posted to X, “Are you able to even show she was shot?” and calling her a “skilled sufferer” in one other publish.
Cooper’s legal professional Michael Pancier declined touch upon the California petition, and stated in an electronic mail that their forthcoming response to the separate federal lawsuit in opposition to her will converse for itself.
A earlier movement to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit stated it makes “doubtful authorized claims” and “irrelevant and impertinent allegations.”
Megan testified through the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV by which that they had been driving. She revealed who had fired the gun solely months later.
The case created a firestorm within the hip-hop group, churning up points together with the reluctance of Black victims to talk to police, gender politics in hip-hop, on-line toxicity, defending Black ladies and the ramifications of misogynoir, a selected model of misogyny Black ladies expertise.
Megan Thee Stallion, now 29, was already a significant rising star on the time of the taking pictures, and her music’s reputation has soared since. She received a Grammy for finest new artist in 2021, and he or she had No. 1 singles with “Savage,” that includes Beyoncé, and as a visitor on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
Lanez, 32, started releasing mixtapes in 2009 and noticed a gentle rise in reputation, transferring on to main label albums. His final two reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.
