Megan Thee Stallion asked the court on Tuesday to issue a restraining order against Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from prison through alternatives. Where he is serving a 10-year prison sentence For being shot in the foot in 2020 in Los Angeles.
The hip-hop star’s petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court asks a judge to bar Canadian rapper Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, from using third parties to continue the same online harassment. Meganwhose legal name is Megan Pitt, who participated in and encouraged him before his imprisonment.
“So far, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson has shown no signs of stopping,” the petition reads. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pitt, Mr. Peterson continues to re-traumatize and re-victimize her.”
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An email from The Associated Press seeking comment from Lenz’s attorney was not immediately responded to. A court hearing on the matter is scheduled for January 9.
Bloggers acting on behalf of Lanez continue to cast doubt on her claims, making false claims including the disappearance of gun fragments and the bullet in the case, the filing says. It also comes after verse She filed a lawsuit in October against blogger Milagro Grams, accusing Grams of intentionally spreading false information on behalf of Lanez.
This lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida against Grams, a popular content creator known legally as Milagro Elizabeth Cooper. The lawsuit accuses Cooper of intentionally causing Pitt emotional distress by cyberstalking, promoting and sharing fake pornography of Pitt and questioning whether she had actually been shot.
The petition filed Tuesday says the protective order issued to prevent the prior harassment is no longer in effect, which it describes as a loophole and flaw in the criminal justice system. Lenz is being held in a California prison in rural Tehachapi.
In December 2022, Lenz was convicted of three felonies: Assault with a semi-automatic firearm; Possession of a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and grossly negligent discharge of a firearm.
The judge denied a request for a new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who appealed his conviction.
In August last year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, bringing what appeared to be the conclusion to a three-year legal and cultural saga that has seen two careers and two lives upended.
Megan testified during the trial that in July 2020, after they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s house in the Hollywood Hills, Lanez shot the back of her feet and yelled at her to dance as she walked away from the SUV they were in. horseback riding. She revealed who fired the shots only months later.
The case created a firestorm in the hip-hop community, raising issues including the reluctance of black victims to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, toxicity online, the protection of black women, and the implications of misogyny, a specific type of misogyny. Black women’s experience.