Megan Thee Stallion, who’s suing a social media commentator for alleged defamation, kicking off her Hot Girl Summer Tour. Photo Credit: Live Nation
It’s time for the court to toss Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation lawsuit against social media commentator Milagro Cooper – at least according to the defendant, who’s fired off a no-holds-barred dismissal motion.
Cooper (known professionally as Milagro Gramz) and her legal team moved to dismiss Megan Thee Stallion’s suit yesterday, about two months following the action’s filing and weeks after an amended complaint surfaced. We promptly covered the suit, accusing Cooper of being a “social media grifter who traffics in false and sensationalist narratives,” at the time of its late-October submission.
Just to recap, though, Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, says the defendant (who still appears to be uploading content) spearheaded “a years-long campaign of harassment” against her on behalf of Tory Lanez, with whom the defendant allegedly had (and has) a “close relationship.”
Multiple elements of the alleged harassment campaign concern the defendant’s coverage of Lanez’s criminal trial, where he was ultimately found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion and sentenced to 10 years behind bars.
Earlier in December, the “WAP” artist doubled down on her defamation arguments (and seemingly moved away from others). Without diving too far into the amended complaint, which spans 40 in-depth pages, the text begins by emphasizing the purported connection between the defendant and Lanez.
Lanez and the “malicious actor” Cooper, the lengthy legal text reiterates in part, have a “vendetta” against Megan Thee Stallion and are continuing to “discredit and shame” her. This alleged defamation is purportedly retaliation for the plaintiff act’s testimony at Lanez’s aforementioned criminal trial.
“As part of their vendetta,” the lengthy legal text reads in part, “Defendant spreads vicious and hateful rumors about Ms. Pete to Defendant’s over 100,000 social media followers, causing Ms. Pete extreme emotional distress.”
But as Unite the People-repped Cooper sees it, Megan Thee Stallion opted to sue in lieu of refuting the relevant claims and coverage, thereby succumbing “to the current trend of using the legal system in an attempt to cancel those opinions she disagrees with.”
Opening with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote and a mention of Megan Thee Stallion’s “sexually explicit lyrics,” the dismissal motion dives directly into the purported issues with the amended action.
Beginning on the straight defamation side, Cooper’s statements “are substantially true,” lack “actual malice,” and “are clearly opinion and/or rhetorical hyperbole,” per the legal text.
“When the actual statements are reviewed in their full context rather than in a hypersensitive safe-space echo chamber,” that text continues, “it is clear that the multiple allegations of ‘defamation’ are an overreach as these statements are not susceptible to a defamatory meaning in the mind of a reasonable person.”
Running with the point, Megan Thee Stallion “believes that her narrative of events is an undeniable [truth] and fails to realize that in a trial, both sides cannot be correct, and rarely is there something that is absolutely true,” according to the filing.
“Thus, it is nonsensical to presume that in every case the losing side committed perjury or that the winning side told the truth,” the document continues, not hesitating to call out the plaintiff’s alleged “inconsistent statements to the police” in connection with the Lanez debacle.
Moving beyond this multifaceted refutation – there’s ample ground to cover here, but the above details effectively sum things up – Megan Thee Stallion allegedly failed to state a claim under Florida law with her deepfake sex-tape allegations.
(Cooper “began promoting a deepfake video purporting to show an artificially created version of Ms. Pete engaging in sexually explicit acts,” the amended complaint reads.)
Once again in the interest of brevity, Cooper says she didn’t promote the video by liking it on X – and definitely didn’t create the deepfake. Instead, the defendant allegedly “told the public that the video appeared to be a deep fake, and that Plaintiff should sue the individuals who made it,” the dismissal filing spells out.
At the time of writing, Megan Thee Stallion didn’t look to have commented publicly on the dismissal push, which wraps with an overview of infringement litigation, ostensibly providing meaningful context when it comes to the current action, stemming from Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane.”
