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Megan Thee Stallion Tells Court Milagro Gramz Should Pay Up or Post Bond on $75,000 Defamation Verdict

The Houston rapper's legal team filed a sharp response Tuesday, arguing the blogger who broadcast a deepfake of her and threatened to run her over with a car should have to post a bond to pause the judgment.

Megan Thee Stallion is not letting Milagro Gramz off the hook.

Lawyers for the Houston rapper, born Megan Pete, filed a sharp response Tuesday opposing the blogger's request to pause the $75,000 defamation judgment against her during her appeal. Per Complex, Megan's team is asking the court to require Gramz, whose real name is Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, to post a full bond equal to the judgment amount before any pause is granted.

The legal filing did not pull any punches. "The same Defendant who showed no hesitation when she broadcast that Plaintiff was a liar, directed her audience to a deep-fake pornographic video of Plaintiff, and threatened to run Plaintiff over with a car, now pleads for the Court's solicitude so that she may avoid the consequences of a jury's verdict and this Court's judgment," Megan's attorneys wrote.

The pushback came two weeks after Gramz, representing herself, filed a June 2 motion asking Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga to halt collection while she appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Per Yahoo via Complex, Gramz argued she could not afford the judgment or a full bond. She described herself as a "self-employed media commentator, researcher and content creator" with fluctuating monthly income who supports a household with two minor children.

"I do not possess substantial liquid assets and do not have the financial resources necessary to immediately satisfy the judgment or post a full supersedeas bond," Gramz wrote in her motion.

The legal back-and-forth comes after a turbulent year of rulings in the case. A federal jury in Florida found Cooper liable in December 2025 on three counts: defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and promoting a deepfake video of the rapper. The jury awarded Megan $75,000 in damages. Initially, the judge reduced the amount to $59,000 after ruling Cooper qualified as a "media defendant." But on May 29, 2026, Judge Altonaga reversed that decision and reinstated the full $75,000 judgment, citing evidence that Cooper had coordinated with Tory Lanez and his father, Sonstar Peterson, to slander Megan in support of Lanez's criminal defense.

As BET.com previously reported, Megan testified during the December 2025 trial that the deepfake video and online harassment campaign caused her significant emotional damage. "I genuinely didn't care if I lived or died," she said on the stand. Lanez was found guilty in the 2020 shooting of Megan and is currently serving a 10-year sentence in California state prison.

Judge Altonaga has not yet ruled on Gramz's motion for a stay or on Megan's bond request. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has yet to set a schedule for the appeal itself.

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