LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket on Tuesday to factor a restraining sequence towards Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail via surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for taking pictures her within the toes.
The petition filed by way of the hip-hop famous person in Los Angeles Superb Court docket asks the pass judgement on to oppose the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose prison title is Daystar Peterson, from the use of 3rd events to proceed the similar on-line harassment of Megan, whose prison title is Megan Pete, that he i’m busy in and inspired sooner than his imprisonment.
“Even now, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition says. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to subject her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”
The petition says jail name timbers from Lanez on the California Correctional Establishment in Tehachapi display that he’s coordinating assaults on Megan’s credibility.
An e-mail in quest of remark from Lanez’s legal professionals used to be now not right away returned. A court docket listening to at the sequence is scheduled for Jan. 9.
The submitting says bloggers performing on Lanez behalf proceed to forged hesitancy on her allegations, making fraudelant claims together with that the gun and bullet fragments within the case are lacking.
The petition says the protecting sequence issued to oppose the former harassment is now not in impact, which it yells a loophole and flaw within the felony justice machine.
In December 2022, Lanez used to be convicted of three felonies: attack with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with improper negligence.
A pass judgement on unwanted a movement for a untouched trial from Lanez’s legal professionals, who’re interesting his conviction.
In August of latter yr, he won the 10-year sentence, bringing what looked to be a conclusion to a three-year prison and cultural saga that noticed two careers, and lives, thrown into turmoil.
The petition says that one blogger particularly, Elizabeth Milagro Cooper, whom Megan is suing in a isolated lawsuit, is performing as Lanez “puppet and mouthpiece.” She alleges Cooper is spreading falsehoods on social media and YouTube, announcing in a single video posted to X, “Can you even prove she was shot?” and calling her a “professional victim” in some other put up.
Cooper’s attorney Michael Pancier declined comment on the California petition, and said in an email that their forthcoming response to the separate federal lawsuit against her will speak for itself.
A previous motion to dismiss Megan’s lawsuit said it makes “dubious legal claims” and “irrelevant and impertinent allegations.”
Megan testified during 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. She revealed who had fired the gun only months later.
The case created a firestorm within the hip-hop nation, churning up problems together with the reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, on-line toxicity, protecting Black women and the ramifications of misogynoir, 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,” featuring Beyoncé, and as a visitor on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
Lanez, 32, started freeing mixtapes in 2009 and noticed a gradual get up in recognition, transferring directly to main label albums. His latter two reached the manage 10 on Billboard’s charts.