Judge Cuts Megan Thee Stallion's Award to $59,000 in Blogger Suit

A federal jury in Miami awarded rapper Megan Thee Stallion $75,000 in damages on December 1, 2025, finding blogger Milagro Cooper, known online as Milagro Gramz, liable for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and promoting an altered sexual depiction in a lawsuit stemming from online harassment tied to a 2020 shooting incident. The following day, U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga reversed the defamation portion of the verdict, reducing the award to $59,000, after determining that Megan Thee Stallion's legal team had failed to provide required pre-suit notice to Cooper as a media defendant under Florida law.

The trial, which began on November 17, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, centered on Cooper's social media posts accusing Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, of lying about being shot in the feet by rapper Tory Lanez during an argument at a Hollywood Hills party in July 2020. Megan filed the lawsuit in October 2024, alleging that Cooper had orchestrated a years-long campaign of harassment, intimidation, and misinformation on behalf of Lanez, who was convicted in December 2022 of assault with a semiautomatic...