UPDATED 12/18, 10 p.m. ET: On Wednesday, Tory Lanez's legal team responded to Megan Thee Stallion's restraining order request in a message on behalf of the incarcerated rapper.
"We are issuing a brief statement in response to the recent accusations made against our client, Mr. Daystar Peterson (AKA Tory Lanez) by Ms. Megan Pete (aka Megan the Stallion).," reads a message shared by Lanez's legal team. "Our approach will focus on logic and common sense. In regard to the ridiculous claim that a writ of habeas corpus was actually filed prior to the release of Ms. Pete's documentary in an attempt to undermine her work is ludicrous, we would like to point out that appellate courts impose strict timelines for when filings and responses must occur."
The message continued, "Are the accusers now suggesting that the courts are trying to disrupt Ms. Pete's documentary? Our client, Mr. Peterson, was simply complying with those legal deadlines, as required by the courts."
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Megan Thee Stallion has requested a restraining order against Tory Lanez for harassing her while he’s in prison.
TMZ reports that the rapper has claimed that Lanez has orchestrated defamatory statements about her through a group of bloggers that spread defamatory statements about her. One of those bloggers is Elizabeth Milagro Cooper — someone that Meg sued in October due to allegedly promoting deep fake porn about her.
In this new filing, Meg claims that prison phone call logs are evidence of a “conspiratorial relationship” between Lanez and Cooper. According to Meg, there’s a conversation that Lanez has with his father about payments for the blogger for harassing her.
TMZ says that this “psychological warfare” against her has caused her to get deeply depressed and estranged from her friends. With this filing for a restraining order, she wants it to force Lanez to stop harassing her directly or through others.
There are also reportedly financial records of payments to Cooper, according to TMZ’s source. The records allegedly showcase payments made between October 2020 and March 2022 for a total of $3,000.
Last week, the accusation about Lanez appeared in an amended complaint in connection with Megan’s lawsuit against Cooper. In the complaint, Megan's legal team said that Lanez “repeatedly discussed” Cooper with his father. At one point, both Lanez and his father “confidently asserted that [Megan] would never be able to prove” that Lanez “pays or paid” the blogger for attacking her.
“By consciously coordinating with [Megan’s] convicted assaulter simply to amplify [Lanez’s] disproven and baseless theories to help him seek retribution against [Megan]—the true victim of [Lanez’s] criminal acts—Defendant engaged in extreme and outrageous conduct that has caused, and continues to cause, [Megan] severe emotional distress,” the filing reads.
