LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion requested a courtroom on Tuesday to problem a restraining order in opposition to Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail by way 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 asks the choose to forestall the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson, from utilizing third events to proceed the identical on-line harassment of Megan, whose authorized title 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. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in jail for taking pictures Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to topic her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”
The petition says jail name logs from Lanez on the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi present that he’s coordinating assaults on Megan’s credibility.
An e mail in search of remark from Lanez’s legal professionals 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 now not in impact, which it calls a loophole and flaw within the legal justice system.
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 12 months, he obtained the 10-year sentence, bringing what gave the impression 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 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 show she was shot?” and calling her a “skilled sufferer” in one other publish.
Cooper’s lawyer Michael Pancier declined touch upon the California petition, and mentioned in an e mail that their forthcoming response to the separate federal lawsuit in opposition to her will communicate for itself.
A earlier movement to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit mentioned it makes “doubtful authorized claims” and “irrelevant and impertinent allegations.”
Megan testified through 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 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 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, now 29, was already a significant rising star on the time of the taking pictures, and her music’s recognition has soared since. She gained 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, transferring on to main label albums. His final two reached the highest 10 on Billboard’s charts.
