Megan Thee Stallion formally secures $75,000 after a federal choose reinstates her defamation verdict towards Milagro Gramz.
Megan Thee Stallion has formally been awarded $75,000 after a federal choose reinstated the jury’s defamation verdict towards Milagro Gramz and entered a brand new amended remaining judgment in her favor.
In a Might 29, 2026, order, Chief U.S. District Decide Cecilia M. Altonaga dominated that Megan Thee Stallion’s movement to reinstate the defamation verdict was granted partially.
The ruling reversed the sooner dismissal of the defamation rely and restored the jury’s discovering that Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, identified on-line as Milagro Gramz, was liable.
The ruling marks a serious shift within the case.
After the jury initially discovered Gramz accountable for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional misery and promotion of an altered sexual depiction, the court docket had declined to enter judgment on the defamation declare as a result of jurors concluded Milagro Gramz certified as a “media defendant.”
That standing would have required Meg to supply pre-suit discover below Florida regulation.
Decide Altonaga revisited that subject and in the end rejected the media protection based mostly on the trial report. The court docket wrote that “the trial report establishes Defendant was not entitled to pre-suit discover.”
The choose discovered that Gramz was successfully commissioned by the Peterson household when she made the three defamatory statements at subject, thereby eradicating her from the safety of Florida’s pre-suit discover statute.
“[Milagro Gramz] had obtained funds from Sonstar, obtained info from the Peterson staff earlier than different media retailers, and despatched supplies to help Daystar’s legal protection,” in accordance with the ruling.
That discovering cleared the trail for the defamation verdict to face.
The case stems from statements Gramz made after the 2022 conviction of Tory Lanez, born Daystar Peterson, in reference to the 2020 taking pictures of Megan Thee Stallion.
Jurors decided that Milagro Gramz’s feedback, together with calling Megan a non-credible witness and questioning whether or not she had tried to deceive courts, had been defamatory.
With the amended judgment now entered, Megan Thee Stallion has secured a proper damages award masking all three counts on which the jury dominated in her favor.
The court docket additionally famous that requests for prices and legal professional’s charges can be addressed later, stating that such requests “shall not be submitted till after any post-trial motions are determined or an enchantment is concluded.”
The order was entered in Miami on Might 29, 2026.