Social media commentator Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, known as Milagro Gramz online, appears to have earned a small win in Megan Thee Stallion‘s defamation lawsuit as the presiding judge tosses the defamation claim while considering the blogger a “media defendant.”
The judge also ruled that Megan, real name Megan Pete, and her legal team failed to properly serve the commentator with notice specifying the defamatory statements prior to them filing the lawsuit — which stems from the rapper’s 2020 shooting involving Tory Lanez.
In December 2022, a jury convicted the Toronto rapper in the July 15, 2020 shooting. In August 2023, a judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison. Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, was found guilty of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle; and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan Thee Stallion Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Blogger Milagro Gramz Following 2020 Tory Lanez Shooting
As previously reported, Megan first filed her defamation lawsuit in October 2024. She alleged Cooper was the “mouthpiece,” “puppet,” and “paid surrogate” for Lanez following the shooting and his subsequent conviction and 10-year prison sentence.
The lawsuit accused Cooper of participating in a targeted and coordinated social media campaign to intimidate, harass, and defame Megan. The suit further accused Cooper of spreading falsehoods about the Houston rapper to punish her and attempt to discredit her after publicly naming Lanez as her shooter.
Megan not only accused Cooper of trolling her online, but of also spreading knowingly harmful content about her, including a sexually explicit deepfake of Megan that had been circulating online.
Judge Rules Milagro Gramz Is Not Liable Of Defamation In Megan Thee Stallion Lawsuit
On Monday (December 1), a federal jury in Florida found Cooper liable for defamation the Houston rapper and ordering her to pay $75,000 in damages. However, on Tuesday (December 2), the judge in the case, Judge Cecila M. Altonaga, entered a final judgment dismissing the defamation claim.
The judge made the final ruling after the jury ultimately listed Cooper as a “media defendant” and after the judge claimed Megan’s team failed to properly serve the blogger with a pre-lawsuit notice about her alleged defamatory statements.
The judge also since dropped Cooper’s damages owed to $59,000. Cooper and her legal team have since released a couple of statements. Taking to her X account, Cooper wrote, “Defamation is a wash.” Before that, she shared a statement from her attorneys. It read:
“After we released our official statement yesterday, @/quinnemanuel (Megan’s attorneys) emailed Jeremy in an attempt to intimidate and threaten the Defense team to retract its statement.
@/quinnemanuel continued by releasing its own statement falsely accusing the Defense of making false and defamatory statements. Some, but not all, of the ‘Independent Journalists’ who were present during the trial aligned themselves with Megan’s attorneys and promoted the false narrative that the Defense team was somehow lying about the results of the trial.
Megan herself took to Twitter and accused the Defense team of lying. Hours ago, Judge Altonaga reduced her oral ruling to writing and it is clear that the Defense never lied about the results of the trial. The Final Judgment of the Court is that the defamation claim is dismissed. Any headline that reads that Megan won her ‘Defamation Suit’ is thus inaccurate.
How ironic is it that Megan sued Milagro because Milagro called Megan a liar… Yet Megan and her attorneys make false accusations and accuse the Defense team of being liars.”
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