Written by AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalston
Los Angeles (AP)A restraining order against Tory Lanez, who is serving a 10-year term for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, was requested by a judge on Tuesday. According to Stallion, Lanez is harassing her from jail via surrogates.
The hip-hop artist has petitioned the judge in Los Angeles Superior Court to stop Canadian rapper Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, from using third parties to carry on harassing Megan, whose real name is Megan Pete, online in the same way that he did and encouraged prior to his incarceration.
The petition claims that after being incarcerated, Mr. Peterson continues to exhibit no symptoms of abating. Even after receiving a 10-year prison sentence for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson still repeatedly traumatizes and revictimizes her.
According to the petition, Lanez is orchestrating attacks on Megan’s credibility, as evidenced by his prison call logs from the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi.
An email asking Lanez’s attorneys for comment was not immediately answered. On January 9, a court hearing regarding the order is planned.
According to the lawsuit, bloggers working on Lanez’s behalf keep raising questions about her assertions, including claiming that the gun and bullet pieces in the case are gone.
According to the petition, the protection order that was put in place to stop the prior harassment is no longer in force, which it claims is a weakness in the criminal justice system.
Lanez was found guilty of three felonies in December 2022: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying an unregistered firearm in a car, and recklessly firing a firearm.
Lanez’s attorneys, who are contesting his conviction, filed a motion for a new trial, but the judge denied it.
He was given the 10-year term in August of last year, seemingly capping a three-year legal and cultural drama that had upended two professions and lives.
The petition alleges that Megan is using one blogger, Elizabeth Milagro Cooper, as a megaphone and puppet for Lanez in a different litigation. She claims Cooper is disseminating lies on YouTube and social media, claiming in one video uploaded to X, “Can you even prove she was shot?” and referring to her in a another post as a professional victim.
Michael Pancier, Cooper’s lawyer, said in an email that their upcoming response to the other federal complaint against her will speak for itself and declined to comment on the California petition.
A previous motion to dismiss Megan s lawsuit said it makes dubious legal claims and irrelevant and impertinent allegations.
Megan testifiedduring the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding. Only a few months later did she disclose who had fired the revolver.
The case created a firestorm in the hip-hop community, churning up issues includingthe reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity,protecting Black womenand the ramifications ofmisogynoir, a particular brand of misogyny Black women experience.
Megan Thee Stallion, now 29, was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her music s popularity has soared since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and she had No. 1 singles with Savage, featuringBeyonc, and as a guest onCardi B sWAP.
Lanez, 32, began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums. His last two reached the top 10 on Billboard s charts.
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