Megan Thee Stallion Wins Her Lawsuit Against Social Media Personality Milagro Gramz Despite Dismissal of Defamation Ruling
- Chinyere Ibeh
- Dec 5, 2025
- 3 min read
The Houston Hottie secures another legal win as the jury sides with her in her suit against a social media personality.
On Monday (Dec. 1), a Miami jury found Milagro Cooper liable for carrying out a smear campaign the Houston-born rapper Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete.
Cooper, popularly known as Milagro Gramz, was also found liable for inflicting emotional distress by working with Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, who shot Pete in 2020, to carry out a smear campaign against the Houston Hottie. In coordinating with Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, Cooper promoted an AI-generated pornographic video of Pete.
Jurors originally awarded Pete $75K in damages, though the amount dropped to $59K when U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga ruled Cooper as a media defendant.
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The jury, made of five men and four women, deliberated for 4.5 hours and 5.5 hours last Wednesday (Nov. 26). They said Cooper disseminated news to the public, but she didn’t do so in an impartial manner. Ultimately, they agreed she should be treated as a media defendant.
Cooper escaped the defamation count due to the technicality, though she’s still on the hook for the two other counts regarding the intentional infliction of emotional distress and her promoting the pornographic video.
The legal team surrounding Cooper, Laisa Ene Peret, Jeremy McLymont, and Nathacha Bien-Aime, appear to focus on the dropped defamation count.
“Cooper ultimately prevailed on Ms. Pete’s leading accusation, defamation, and the jury awarded a nominal amount of damages compared to millions of dollars Ms. Pete demanded from Ms. Cooper throughout the course of the litigation,” Cooper’s legal team said in a statement obtained by ABC News.
Cooper’s promotion of the explicit video could raise the amount she owes to the “Cocky AF” rapper as Pete can recoup her attorney fees. The sentiment was echoed in Pete’s lawyer’s statement obtained by ABC News, noting that Cooper will be required to cover the rapper’s legal fees.
Recouping said attorney fees may take some time as Judge Altonaga stated in her final judgement that such requests will have to wait until after all post-trial motions and appeals are dealt with.
As she was leaving court on Monday, Pete notes that she’s happy following the jury’s decision. While Pete expressed her elation, Cooper notes that she’s also happy to move forward. Cooper appears to look on the brighter side of things despite the legal loss.
“Things will get handled. It wasn’t a multimillion dollar verdict. So I think that’s a blessing. God is good through and through,” Cooper said after leaving court.
In their press release immediately following the verdict on Monday, Cooper’s legal team alleged that Pete and her attorneys asked the jury to award the rapper with “an astronomical amount of damages.” They allege that the jury rejected Pete’s request, pointing out the “nominal damages” Pete was able to recover.
“Evidently, the jury did not believe that Ms. Cooper was the sole cause of Ms. Pete’s emotional distress and that is reflected in their verdict,” the press release read.
Their statement came before Judge Altonaga’s final judgement, which Pete’s legal team highlighted in their own press release.
“The judge will make a final ruling and determine the entire financial amount that Milagro will be required to pay Megan, inclusive of legal bills and the defamation count, at a later date,” Pete’s legal team said via press release.
During her testimony last month, Pete speaks about Cooper’s social media posts about her.
“She’s created a space for a lot of people to come speak negatively about me,” Pete said. She referenced Cooper’s social media posts, in which the social media personality attacked Pete’s character by casting her as a liar and mentally unstable.
Cooper also took the stand last month, testifying that she operated as a blogger without the influence of Peterson. She did admit to speaking with Peterson and was hoping to have him as a guest on her channel. She also admitted to receiving payments from Peterson’s father, but she claimed they were for personal reasons — namely her children’s birthdays and “promotional” work.
The social media personality’s posts stemmed from the criminal case against Peterson, for which he is currently serving a 10-year sentence.
The Canadian rapper was convicted in December 2022 of felony assault for shooting and injuring Pete during a July 2020 incident. The polarizing incident happened in Hollywood Hills after Peterson, Pete, and Pete’s former friend Kelsey Harris left a party hosted by Kylie Jenner earlier that evening.
Peterson’s legal team attempted to appeal both his sentencing and conviction, but it was upheld by a Los Angeles federal court last month.
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