Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket on Tuesday to challenge a restraining order in opposition to Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail by means of 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 court docket asks the decide to stop the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose authorized identify is Daystar Peterson, from utilizing third events to proceed the identical on-line harassment of Megan, whose authorized identify is Megan Pete, that he engaged in and inspired earlier than his imprisonment.
“Even now, whereas behind bars, Mr Peterson exhibits 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 re-victimization.”
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 e-mail looking for remark from Lanez’s attorneys was not instantly returned. A court docket listening to on the order is scheduled for 9 January.
The submitting says bloggers performing 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 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 semi-automatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car; 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 12 months, he acquired the 10-year sentence, bringing what appeared 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, Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, whom Megan is suing in a separate lawsuit, is performing as Lanez’s “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 mentioned in an e-mail {that a} forthcoming response to the separate federal lawsuit would communicate for itself.
A earlier movement to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit mentioned it makes “doubtful authorized claims” and “irrelevant and impertinent allegations”.
Megan testified throughout the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun behind her ft and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV through which they’d 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 specific model of misogyny Black ladies expertise.
Megan Thee Stallion, 29, was a rising star on the time of the taking pictures, and her music’s recognition has soared since. She received a Grammy for greatest new artist in 2021, and she or he 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 gradual rise in recognition, shifting on to main label albums. His final two reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.
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