Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) to concern a restraining order towards Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail by means of surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for capturing her within the toes.
The petition filed by the hip-hop star in Los Angeles Superior Court docket asks the choose to forestall 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.
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“Regardless of being sentenced to 10 years in jail for capturing Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to topic her to repeated trauma and revictimisation.”
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 searching for remark from Lanez’s legal professionals was not instantly returned. A court docket listening to on the order is scheduled for January 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 forestall the earlier harassment is now not in impact, which it calls a loophole and flaw within the felony justice system.
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In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
A choose rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s legal professionals, who’re interesting his conviction.
In August of final yr, he obtained 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 specifically, Elizabeth Milagro Cooper, whom Megan is suing in a separate lawsuit, is appearing as Lanez “puppet and mouthpiece”.
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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 submit.
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 towards her will communicate for itself.
A earlier movement to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit stated 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 house, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her toes and shouted for her to bop as she walked away from an SUV during which that they had been using. She revealed who had fired the gun solely months later.
The case created a firestorm within the hip-hop neighborhood, churning up points together with the reluctance of Black victims to talk to police, gender politics in hip-hop, on-line toxicity, defending Black girls and the ramifications of misogynoir, a specific model of misogyny Black girls expertise.
Megan Thee Stallion, now 29, was already a significant rising star on the time of the capturing, and her music’s reputation has soared since.
She received a Grammy for finest 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 reputation, transferring on to main label albums. His final two reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.
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