Megan Thee Stallion asked a court Tuesday to issue a restraining order against Tory Lanez, who she says has been harassing her from prison through surrogate mothers. while serving a 10 year sentence for shooting him in the feet in 2020 in Los Angeles.
The hip-hop star’s motion in Los Angeles Superior Court asks the judge to stop Canadian rapper Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, from using third parties to continue the same online harassment against Meganewhose legal name is Megan Pete, which he practiced and encouraged before his imprisonment.
“Even now, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition states. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to subject her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”
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An email from The Associated Press seeking comment from Lanez’s attorneys was not immediately returned. A court hearing on the order is scheduled for January 9.
The filing says bloggers acting on Lanez’s behalf continue to cast doubt on his claims, making false claims including that the gun and bullet fragments in the case have gone missing. This also comes after Pete filed a complaint in October against blogger Milagro Gramz, accusing Gramz of deliberately spreading false information on behalf of Lanez.
This lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida against Gramz, a popular content creator legally known as Milagro Elizabeth Cooper. The lawsuit accuses Cooper of intentionally causing emotional distress to Pete by cyberstalking, promoting and sharing fake pornography of Pete, and questioning whether she had actually been shot.
Tuesday’s petition claims a protective order issued to prevent prior harassment is no longer in effect, which it calls a flaw and failure in the criminal justice system. Lanez is being held in a California prison in rural Tehachapi.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semi-automatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
A judge denied a motion for a new trial by Lanez’s lawyers, who are appealing his conviction.
In August last year he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, bringing what appeared to be the conclusion to a three-year legal and cultural saga that saw two careers and two lives upended.
Megan testified during the trial that in July 2020, after leaving a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and yelled at her to dance as she was walking away from an SUV they had been in. horse riding. She revealed who fired the gun a few months later.
The case created a storm in the hip-hop community, raising issues such as black victims’ reluctance to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, protection of black women and the ramifications of misogynoir, a particular form of misogyny. The Black Women’s Experience.
