Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation trial has officially wrapped up.
Although a verdict was expected before the Thanksgiving break, the court didn’t reach one in time. Instead, the decision landed on Monday (Dec. 1).
According to independent reporter Meghann Cuniff, the jury found Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, also known as Milagro Gramz, liable.
As previously reported, Tory Lanez and his attorney, Crystal Morgan, were held in contempt of court earlier this month after the 33-year-old artist refused to answer questions during a deposition for Megan’s defamation case.
According to an order, Morgan repeatedly objected to questions about her client’s communications with Milagro Gramz, even though those questions were deemed “clearly relevant” to the case.
“She engaged in lengthy speaking objections, coaching the witness, and continued to do so after she was requested to stop,” the order stated.
A key issue for jurors was determining whether Cooper qualified as a “media defendant” under Florida law. As Meghann Cuniff explained, a “media defendant” is someone considered 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 took legal action against Gramz, accusing the blogger of working on Tory Lanez’s behalf to push “falsehoods” about her across social media.
“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,” Megan’s attorney Alex Spiro said at the time.
This story is still developing.
