{"id":7580,"date":"2025-08-29T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/megan-thee-stallion-says-tory-lanezs-pal-ruined-lawsuit-deposition\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:33:06","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-says-tory-lanezs-pal-ruined-lawsuit-deposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/megan-thee-stallion-says-tory-lanezs-pal-ruined-lawsuit-deposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Says Tory Lanez\u2019s Pal Ruined Lawsuit Deposition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tL<\/span>awyers for Megan Thee Stallion say a close ally of Tory Lanez should be punished for \u201cutterly disrespectful, uncivil and antagonistic\u201d conduct during a recent deposition.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe request comes in a Thursday (Aug. 28) court motion as part of the federal defamation lawsuit brought by the Houston rapper (Megan Pete<\/strong>) against Milagro Gramz <\/strong>(Milagro Cooper<\/strong>), a gossip blogger who\u2019s allegedly been spreading falsehoods about Lanez\u2019s conviction for shooting Megan in 2020.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMegan\u2019s attorneys claim Lanez (Daystar Peterson<\/strong>), who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the shooting, is funneling directives to Gramz through his friend Ceasar McDowell. <\/strong>McDowell is the CEO of legal organization Unite the People, which is representing Lanez on appeal and has made dubious public statements about supposed new evidence that should exonerate the rapper.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcDowell was deposed in the Gramz lawsuit in July, and it didn\u2019t go very well. Megan\u2019s lawyers say McDowell answered nearly every question with \u201cI don\u2019t remember\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d and engaged in \u201cimmature and childlike conduct\u201d \u2014 including rolling and smoking what appeared to be a \u201cmarijuana cigarette\u201d during the deposition, lawyers say, calling one of the attorneys a \u201cb\u2014-\u201d and even walking out mid-questioning.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHis conduct shocked the conscience and made a mockery of this court\u2019s authority,\u201d write the attorneys from powerhouse litigation firm Quinn Emanuel. \u201cBecause of his egregious behavior, the court should sanction Mr. McDowell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMegan\u2019s legal team says McDowell\u2019s behavior echoed that of Lanez himself, who was recently held in contempt for similarly evasive and disruptive conduct during his jailhouse deposition for the Gramz lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe blogger DJ Akademiks<\/strong> (Livingston Allen<\/strong>), who has also spread misinformation about Lanez\u2019s conviction, allegedly engaged in the same type of obstructive behavior at his own deposition too.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll three men \u2014 Messrs. Peterson, McDowell and Allen \u2014 used the same strategy of systematic evasion when discovery threatened to expose their coordination,\u201d write Megan\u2019s attorneys. \u201cTheir synchronized obstruction reveals a coordinated effort to shield their defamation campaign from scrutiny and prevent Ms. Pete from obtaining evidence of the damages it caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an order on Friday (Aug. 29), Judge Lisette M. Reid<\/strong> declared that McDowell will have to be re-deposed under court supervision. The judge set a hearing next Friday (Sept. 5) to determine whether McDowell should face financial sanctions for his conduct at the original deposition. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMcDowell did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLanez was found guilty of three felony charges in 2022 for shooting Megan in the foot during a drunken argument after Kylie Jenner<\/strong>\u2018s pool party in 2022. The Canadian rapper maintains his innocence and has repeatedly sought to overturn the conviction.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn appellate court has already rejected two of Lanez\u2019s challenges, unconvinced by his argument that the gun supposedly used in the crime went \u201cmissing.\u201d Lanez\u2019s attorneys argued against another one of his appeal efforts last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Megan sued Gramz in 2024 for allegedly spreading falsehoods about the case online, including Lanez\u2019s claim about the missing gun, as part of a \u201ccoordinated campaign\u201d to undermine the guilty verdict and ruin Megan\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

\n\tGramz denies any wrongdoing and says all of her social media activity is First Amendment-protected free speech. But a judge is allowing the case to move forward, and a trial is currently scheduled to be held in Miami this November.<\/p>\n


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