Megan Thee Stallion requested a courtroom on Tuesday to situation a restraining order towards Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail via surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for capturing her within the ft.
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, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition says. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to subject 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 e mail searching for remark from Lanez’s attorneys was not instantly returned.
A courtroom listening to on the order is scheduled for Jan. 9.
The submitting says bloggers performing on Lanez behalf proceed to forged 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 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 choose rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who’re interesting his conviction.
In August of final 12 months, 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 particularly, Elizabeth Milagro Cooper, whom Megan is suing in a separate lawsuit, is performing as Lanez “puppet and mouthpiece.” She alleges Cooper is spreading falsehoods on social media and YouTube, saying in a single video posted to X, “Can you even prove she was shot?” and calling her a “professional victim” in one other put up.
Cooper’s lawyer Michael Pancier declined touch upon the California petition, and stated in an e mail that their forthcoming response to the separate federal lawsuit towards her will converse for itself.
A earlier movement to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit stated it makes “dubious legal 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 residence, Lanez fired the gun behind her ft and shouted for her to bop 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 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 recognition 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 gentle rise in recognition, transferring on to main label albums.
His final two reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.
