Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit trial has come to a close.
While a decision was initially expected before court dispersed for the Thanksgiving holiday, that ultimately didn't happen. Instead, a conclusion came on Monday (Dec. 1).
Per independent reporter Meghann Cuniff, a jury found that Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, a.k.a. Milagro Gramz, was liable.
“I’m just happy,” Megan could be heard saying in a video later shared by Cuniff.
As previously reported, Tory Lanez and his lawyer, Crystal Morgan, were held in contempt of court earlier this month after the 33-year-old Peterson artist refused to answer questions in a deposition for Megan’s defamation suit.
In an order viewed by Complex, it was stated that Morgan had repeatedly objected to questions centered on her client’s communications with Milagro Gramz, this despite such questions being “clearly relevant” to the matter at hand.
“She engaged in lengthy speaking objections, coaching the witness, and continued to do so after she was requested to stop,” the order said.
Notably, jurors in the defamation lawsuit had been tasked with deciding whether Cooper qualified as a “media defendant” under Florida law. A “media defendant” in this sense, as further detailed by Cuniff below, is a person or party deemed to be “engaged in the dissemination of news and information to the public in order to initiate the uninhibited, robust, and wide-open debate on public issues.”
In December of last year, Megan announced her decision to sue Gramz, a blogger her legal team has accused of acting on Lanez’s behalf to spread “falsehoods” on social media. Gramz and other bloggers, attorney Alex Spiro said at the time, had served as “a mouthpiece and puppet” for Lanez, who in 2023 was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
“Since Mr. Peterson was indicted in 2020 for felony assault with a deadly weapon after shooting Ms. Pete, to his later conviction in December 2022, up through today, you have done Mr. Peterson’s public bidding to denigrate, belittle, insult, and spread false and defamatory statements about Ms. Pete on your online platform, for no other reason than to bully, harass and punish Ms. Pete for Mr. Peterson’s conviction and to tarnish her reputation, causing emotional distress,” Spiro, an attorney for Megan, said when announcing legal action.
During the ensuing trial, Travis Farris, a former manager of Megan’s, testified that the three-time Grammy winner had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on therapy due to the emotional distress brought on by Gramz’s actions, including the sharing of a sexually explicit deepfake video.