Megan Thee Stallion Sues YouTuber Over 'Harassment Campaign'

Megan Thee Stallion is suing social media commentator Milagro Cooper for allegedly acting on behalf of Tory Lanez “as an online rumor mill churning out falsehoods.”

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan-repped Megan Thee Stallion submitted the straightforward complaint to a Florida federal court, naming Cooper as the sole defendant. As laid out in the action, this defendant operates accounts on X, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube alike.

A cursory glance at the appropriate profiles indicates that the host weighs in on a variety of pop-culture topics; in Cooper's own words, the media at hand “fills you in on everything going on in urban culture.”

But as described by Megan Thee Stallion and her legal team, Cooper is only a “social media grifter who traffics in false and sensationalist narratives.” And the latter narratives include “a years-long campaign of harassment” against the plaintiff.

Furthermore, Cooper spearheaded this alleged campaign on behalf of Tory Lanez, per the action, which specifically attributes the alleged harassment to the defendant's “close relationship with Mr. Peterson [Lanez] and his father.”

While the legal text doesn't dive too far into this purported close relationship – by now, most know of Lanez's decade-long prison sentence in connection with Megan Thee Stallion's shooting – it does provide multiple examples allegedly supporting the harassment-campaign claims.

Earlier this week, for instance, Milagro Cooper “made the false and outlandish claim that the firearm” used to shoot Megan Thee Stallion “had gone missing.” Those remarks “recklessly disregarded the truth” about the weapon, which “remains in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department,” per the suit.

Next, on top of allegedly attending the relevant trial and livestreaming “her falsehoods during hearings,” Cooper allegedly made a number of related remarks on the subject towards 2022's end. (The main complaint features screenshots of these years-old tweets.)

And perhaps most seriously, the defendant allegedly directed her followers to “a deepfake video purporting to show an artificially created version of” Megan Thee Stallion “engaging in sexually explicit acts.”

Needless to say, the artist hadn't approved of the AI-generated clip, and per the complaint, it's unclear who actually made the deepfake video.

All told, the “disparaging remarks” allegedly harmed Megan Thee Stallion's “mental and emotional state,” inflicted “significant personal and economic harm,” and damaged the plaintiff's “reputation and standing as a professional musician” – with further economic harm stemming from efforts to remove various “bots” allegedly interacting with the media at hand.

Although questionable takes aren't barred under US law, Megan Thee Stallion (who, incidentally, joined Hybe's Weverse yesterday) is suing specifically for “promotion of an altered sexual depiction,” cyberstalking, “intentional infliction of emotional distress,” and invasion of privacy.

Cooper today briefly addressed the suit during an X livestream (albeit while clarifying that the comments did not constitute an official statement, which will come from her attorneys) and in multiple tweets, one of which touched on plans to launch a countersuit.