Megan Thee Stallion won her defamation lawsuit against the blogger Milagro Gramz, real name Milagro Cooper, on December 1. Cooper was found liable for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and spreading a sexual deepfake of Megan after the rapper was shot in the foot by Tory Lanez in July 2020, per NBC News . The jury initially awarded Megan damages of $75,000, but judge Cecilia M. Altonaga brought the total down to $59,000. In their filing, Megan’s lawyers accused Cooper of being a “mouthpiece,” “puppet,” and “paid surrogate” for Lanez after the shooting. Her lawyers said Cooper had “acted on behalf of” Lanez as “an online rumor mill churning out falsehoods … to her tens of thousands of social-media followers” and noted she was paid by Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peter

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