By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | December 1, 2025
A Florida jury sided with rapper Megan Thee Stallion this week in her defamation civil suit against a blogger who she accused of defaming and harassing her.
Megan, real name Megan Pete, had sued Milagro Gramz (real name Milagro Cooper) after accusing her of being a ‘mouthpiece’ and ‘paid surrogate’ for Daystar Peterson, a.k.a. Tory Lanez, the guy who is serving ten years in prison for shooting her. Jurors initially awarded the plaintiff $75,000 before U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga knocked it down to $59,000. The jury of five men and four women sided with Megan and found that Cooper wilfully encouraged her social media following to view a sexually explicit deepfake AI video of Megan.
According to the lawsuit, Cooper ‘conspired’ with Peterson to attack and deliberately spread lies about Megan, all in order to cast public doubt over her testimony in his trial. During her testimony, Megan talked of the mental toll caused by Cooper’s harassment and how it led her to believe that ‘there was a time that I genuinely didn’t care if I lived or died.’ Cooper’s defence claimed that her claims fell under first amendment rights, and that she was never laid by Peterson to smear Megan (although she did receive money from Peterson’s father, which she claims was only for personal things and not paid work.) One of Cooper’s former live-stream moderators, Amiel Holland-Briggs, testified that he had advised Cooper not to call Megan a liar, and that her approach to publicly discussing the Peterson trial went off the rails after she conversed with the accused and his dad.
Megan has received a barrage of hate and misogynoir in the years following the attack against her. She has been the subject of various easily debunked conspiracies regarding the shooting and been smeared repeatedly by bloggers and Peterson supporters. Many of her rap contemporaries have publicly mocked and derided her, helping to push the narrative that the victim was the ‘real’ aggressor. We can only hope that this ruling brings her some peace.
"I'm just happy."
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) December 1, 2025
Megan Thee Stallion leaves the Miami federal courthouse after a jury found online streamer Milagro Cooper liable for defaming her, promoting a fake sexually explicit video of her and intentionally inflicting emotional distress by coordinating with Tory Lanez. pic.twitter.com/TYGI6yG10r