Megan Thee Stallion (Megan Pete) and her legal team have been granted permission to depose Tory Lanez (Daystar Peterson) behind bars following a ruling by a federal judge on Monday (Feb. 24).
“Plaintiff may take the oral deposition of Daystar Peterson, either remotely via videoconference technology or as otherwise arranged upon agreement with the California Correctional Institution,” reads the ruling, filed in Florida federal court by Judge Cecilia Altonaga.
Megan and her legal team’s motion — which was unopposed by the defense — comes as part of the rapper’s lawsuit against blogger and social media personality Milagro “Gramz” Cooper. In the suit, filed last October, Megan accused Cooper of cyberstalking, defamation, emotional distress and engaging in a “coordinated campaign” to spread “vicious and hateful rumors.”
Megan alleges that Cooper served as a “mouthpiece and puppet” for Lanez by promoting deepfake pornography of her and making unsubstantiated claims that she suffered from alcoholism in a series of YouTube videos. To back up these claims, her legal team said they’d discovered prison phone calls during which Lanez coordinated payments to Gramz.
Representatives for Megan, Cooper and Lanez did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s requests for comment on the judge’s ruling.
Lanez is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted over a 2020 incident in which he shot at Megan’s feet during an argument following a small party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home. His appeal remains pending.
In January, Megan was granted a five-year restraining order against Lanez after she tearfully testified that the R&B singer and convicted felon has continued to “terrorize” her from behind bars with a “campaign of harassment.”
“It just seems like I have to relive it every day,” Megan said during a video livestream. “The person who shot me won’t let me forget it. I’m scared that when he gets out of jail he’s going to still be upset with me … I feel like maybe he’ll shoot me again and maybe this time I won’t make it.”
