Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has been granted a restraining order from imprisoned rapper Tory Lanez until early 2030.
A Los Angeles judge granted the request of Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, for a protective order after she alleged Lanez had been harassing her from prison through surrogates.
He is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting the hip-hop star in the foot and shouting at her to dance as she walked away from an SUV they drove in after leaving a party at Kylie Jenner‘s Hollywood Hills home in July 2020.
Megan Thee Stallion, 29, obtained a temporary order in November after alleging Lanez, a Canadian rapper whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, is using third parties to continue to harass her online.
Her petition says that call logs at the California jail Lanez is in show he is co-ordinating attacks on her credibility, including making false claims that the gun and bullet fragments in the case are missing.
A summary of Thursday’s hearing said the judge found that Megan Thee Stallion’s lawyers had met the burden of proof to extend the temporary restraining order until 9 January 2030.
Lanez’s lawyer wrote in an objection to the restraining order request that his client’s incarceration means there “is no longer any form of current or future threat” to Megan Thee Stallion. The lawyer added that there has been no direct contact between the two recently.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three charges: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
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Megan The Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her music’s popularity has soared since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and she had number one singles with Savage, and as a guest on Cardi B’s WAP.
Lanez, 32, began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums – his last two reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
