MIAMI — A federal jury sided with Megan Thee Stallion on Monday and agreed that a blogger defamed and harassed the rapper — but limited damages to less than six figures.
The federal panel of five men and four women came down in favor of Megan, the artist born Megan Pete, in her lawsuit against blogger Milagro Gramz, whose real name is Milagro Cooper.
The suit was over material Cooper posted after R&B musician Tory Lanez shot Megan five years ago.
Jurors initially awarded Megan $75,000, which U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga knocked down to $59,000.
She declined to answer any questions from reporters as she left court.
Cooper didn't appear to be particularly pleased or distressed by the panel's findings.
"I'm not ecstatic," Cooper said. "Of course you want things to go your way, but like I said, I respect the jury and what they decided."
Her attorney, Jeremy McLymont, said he's grateful that jurors didn't award seven digits of damages.
"We respect the jury's verdict. You always have to, right? Whether we agree with it or not, we respect it," he said.
"At the end of the day it was not a complete win for any side."
Megan accused Cooper of being a "mouthpiece," a "puppet" and a "paid surrogate" for Lanez, who shot herin Los Angeles on July 15, 2020.
Jurors found that Cooper willfully encouraged her thousands of followers on X and Instagram to view a sexually explicit deepfake video of Megan that had beencirculating on social media.
Lanez shot Megan in the foot after the pair left a party at Kylie Jenner's home in 2020.
A Los Angeles jury found Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, guilty ofthree felony charges on Dec. 23, 2022: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
He wassentenced to up to 10 yearsbehind bars.
Megan said she has been struggling with mental health issues since the shooting and the harassment from the blogger.
Juliette Arcodia reported from Miami and David K. Li from New York.
