Thee Stallion wins once more! Megan Thee Stallion was all smiles as she walked out of courtroom after a jury discovered belligerent blogger Milagro Gramz responsible for defamation, harassment, and coordinating with pipsqueak prisoner Tory Lanez to deliberately inflict emotional misery.
The Grammy winner sued Milagro Gramz (Milagro Cooper) for posts that dragged her identify and picture via the mud after Tory Lanez shot her in 2020. The jury agreed that Milagro coordinated with Lanez, earlier than and after his 2022 conviction for the capturing, to assault Megan with misinformation concerning the trial.
One of many posts on the coronary heart of the civil go well with was of Milagro guiding her followers to view a faux intercourse tape of Megan Thee Stallion (Megan Pete). The rapper’s attorneys efficiently argued that the coordinated assaults not solely broken Megan’s repute but additionally her psychological well being.
As BOSSIP beforehand reported, Megan testified that she thought of killing herself after the deepfake porn went viral. She had already endured the trauma of the capturing, victim-blaming backlash from followers and friends, and reliving all of it for the legal trial.
When the deepfake circulated, Megan’s former supervisor testified that she wanted $240,000 price of remedy to cope with the emotional toll it took on her. Regardless of the costly restoration, the web instigator solely acquired a monetary slap on the wrist when it got here to damages within the case.
NBC Information experiences the jury awarded Megan $75,000, however U.S. District Court docket Decide Cecilia M. Altonaga diminished it to $59,000. It’s a drop within the bucket in comparison with the seven-figure loss Tasha Okay took in Cardi B’s defamation lawsuit. Nonetheless, Milagro reportedly confronted sufficient monetary pressure from the authorized battle that she might’ve made the lower to be Tasha’s neophyte in Broke Phi Broke.
Earlier than the trial even began, a number of attorneys reportedly dropped Milagro over authorized charges. The repeated turnover left the keyboard contrarian scrambling to fundraise $100,000 simply to proceed to struggle the case.
Megan Thee Stallion shortly strutted out of the courthouse. “I’m simply completely happy!” She mentioned, noting that she deliberate to rejoice by going out to eat. Take that victory lap, Meg!
Milagro Gramz and her lawyer have been clearly disillusioned however relieved she didn’t owe extra in damages. “I’m not ecstatic. In fact, you need issues to go your method however like I mentioned I respect the jury and what they determined,” Milagro mentioned, nonetheless smiling and waving for the cameras.
“We respect the jury’s verdict you at all times need to proper? Whether or not we agree with it or not, we respect it,” lawyer Jeremy McLymont mentioned. “On the finish of the day it was not an entire win for any facet,” he added, referencing the decimated damages ordered by the jury.
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