Megan Thee Stallion asks for Tory Lanez restraining order

Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has filed a petition for a restraining bid against Tory Lanez, who's presently serving a 10-year situation condemnation for shooting her.

Lanez, existent sanction Daystar Peterson, changeable Grammy victor Megan, 29, successful the feet during an statement aft a enactment successful 2020.

In tribunal documents filed successful Los Angeles, Megan accuses him of continuing to harass her online from down bars and subjecting her to "repeated trauma and re-victimisation".

Lanez's lawyers told BBC Newsbeat the claims were "ridiculous" and the "truth volition beryllium revealed" successful court.

Megan's lawyers person asked a justice to forestall Lanez from harassing her via 3rd parties.

They impeach blogger Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, known online arsenic Milagro Gramz, of being a "mouthpiece" and "puppet" sharing misinformation astir the lawsuit connected behalf of the jailed Canadian rapper.

The filing from Megan's lawyers alleges Lanez, 32, discussed payments to Milagro with his dad, Sonstar Peterson, from prison, but his lawyers accidental immoderate payments to the blogger from Sonstar had thing to bash with Lanez oregon his case.

Milagro's representatives declined to remark connected the filing erstwhile contacted by Newsbeat but said a effect to beryllium heard successful a abstracted suit would "speak for itself".

Lanez was found blameworthy of 3 charges astatine a proceedings past year - negligent discharge of a firearm, battle with a semi-automatic firearm, and carrying a loaded and unregistered firearm.

The tribunal heard helium and Megan, existent sanction Megan Pete, had a enactment aft leaving a enactment hosted by Kylie Jenner successful the Hollywood Hills connected 12 July 2020.

When Megan demanded to beryllium fto retired of the car they were in, Lanez changeable astatine her feet portion ordering her to "dance".

Lanez has continued to support his innocence and soon aft helium was jailed successful August 2023 claimed helium had been wrongly convicted.

In an Instagram station helium wrote: "I garbage to apologise for thing I did not do."

The sentencing justice besides criticised Lanez for trying to "intimidate Ms Pete and soundlessness her truths from being heard".

The proceedings divided the hip-hop assemblage with artists taking sides. After Lanez was recovered blameworthy by a jury, 50 Cent apologised for posts he'd shared suggesting Megan had lied astir being shot.

But helium wasn't unsocial - Megan said successful tribunal she had not known "a azygous time of peace" since the onslaught owed to online speculation.

She initially told constabulary she'd wounded her feet by stepping connected solid and aboriginal said she lied due to the fact that she didn't privation to "get successful much trouble".

Responding to the restraining bid petition, Lanez's lawyers again formed uncertainty connected Megan's broadside of the story.

"It is important to see the signifier of behaviour we are seeing," they said successful a statement.

"When idiosyncratic has openly admitted to lying connected large nationalist platforms... astatine what constituent bash we, arsenic a society, halt believing the communicative they are pushing?"

In October, Megan released a documentary charting her struggles with anxiety, slump and suicidal thoughts successful the aftermath of the shooting and the trial.

In their entreaty for a restraining order, Megan's lawyers allege Lanez tried to disrupt the documentary's merchandise with an entreaty - thing his lawyers dismissed arsenic "ludicrous".

"[He] was simply complying with ineligible deadlines, arsenic required by the courts," they say.

Megan's representatives accidental the "only recourse she present has is to question a civilian harassment restraining bid against [Lanez] to extremity his ongoing run of harassment."

A tribunal proceeding connected the bid is owed to instrumentality spot connected 9 January.