Megan Thee Stallion asked a court on Tuesday to issue a restraining order against Tory Lanez, who she claims is harassing her from prison through surrogates because he is serving a ten-year prison sentence for shooting her in the foot in Los Angeles in 2020.
The hip-hop star’s petition to the Los Angeles Superior Court asks the judge to prevent Canadian rapper Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, from using third parties to commit the same online harassment of Meganwhose legal name is Megan Pete, whom he engaged in and encouraged before his imprisonment.
“Even now, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition said. “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 hearing on the order is scheduled for Jan. 9.
The filing states that bloggers acting on behalf of Lanez continue to question her allegations and make false claims, including that the gun and bullet fragments are missing from the case. It also comes after Pete filed a lawsuit in October against blogger Milagro Gramz, who accuses Gramz of deliberately spreading false information on behalf of Lanez.
That 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 Pete emotional distress by cyberstalking, promoting and sharing deepfake pornography of Pete and questioning whether she was actually shot.
Tuesday’s petition says a protective order issued to prevent previous harassment is no longer in effect, calling it a loophole and a flaw in the criminal justice system. Lanez is being held in a California jail 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 has denied a request for a new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who are appealing his conviction.
In August last year, he was given a 10-year prison sentence, seemingly ending a three-year legal and cultural saga that threw two careers and lives into turmoil.
Megan testified at trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at her hind feet and yelled at her to dance as she walked away from an SUV they had been sitting in . to ride. It wasn’t until months later that she revealed who fired the gun.
The case caused a firestorm in the hip-hop community, raising issues such as black victims’ reluctance to talk to police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, the protection of black women, and the consequences of misogyny, a specific form of misogyny. Black women experience.
