Megan Thee Stallion has asked a court in Los Angeles to issue a restraining order against the rapper Tory Lanez, who is currently in prison serving a 10-year sentence for shooting her in 2020. Her lawyers said he had been waging a “campaign of harassment” against her from behind bars.
In court papers filed Tuesday in Superior Court in Los Angeles, Mari Henderson, a lawyer for Megan Thee Stallion, said that Mr. Lanez had sought to traumatize her by employing bloggers to spread defamatory statements about her online.
Her lawyers also said that Mr. Lanez had filed court papers claiming that his legal rights had been violated one day before a documentary on Megan Thee Stallion was set to premiere. Taken together, they say in court papers that the harassment has caused Megan Thee Stallion emotional distress and harmed her reputation.
Attempts to reach a lawyer for Mr. Lanez were not immediately successful.
Mr. Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, was convicted in late 2022 of three felony counts after a jury found him guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both of her feet following an argument two years earlier. Mr. Lanez was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with case, which polarized the music world, filled gossip pages and spurred discussions about violence against Black women.
In arguing for a restraining order, lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion pointed to one particular blogger who they said had published several false statements about her and about the integrity of the criminal trial. (Megan Thee Stallion brought a separate defamation lawsuit against that blogger earlier this month.)
The lawyers also cited statements Mr. Lanez had made on social media immediately following his conviction, assailing the fairness of the proceedings. And they accused him of spreading a rumor in October falsely suggesting that an appellate court had declared him innocent.
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