In July 2020, Los Angeles police stopped a car carrying Megan and Daystar Peterson. Officers found a recently discharged gun. They also saw injuries to Megan’s feet, which were later described as gunshot wounds. At Peterson’s 2022 criminal trial, Megan testified that she got out of the car and began walking away. She said Peterson shouted “Dance, bitch” and fired several shots at her feet. The jury convicted him on all charges, and he was sentenced to ten years in prison.
The Peterson litigation wrapped up a long time ago, but that was not the end of Megan’s legal troubles. She soon had a new headache: online personality “Milagro Gramz.”
A Savage Cyberbully
Milagro is also known as “Mobz World,” though her legal name is Milagro Elizabeth Cooper. Court filings say Milagro attended Peterson’s criminal trial in person, sitting near his family and watching the proceedings.
Over the couple of years of the Peterson trial and its aftermath, Milagro used her X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube accounts to cover the case and discuss Megan with her tens of thousands of followers. The internet personality repeatedly accused Megan of lying about being shot, called her a “lying-ass hoe,” questioned whether she had been shot at all, and promoted a theory that she only stepped on glass despite medical records describing bullet fragments in her feet.
During the next few years, Milagro’s posts moved past the shooting and into broader personal attacks on Megan: accusing her of having a severe drinking problem, suggesting she needed Alcoholics Anonymous, and asking followers whether the rapper had ever been “legally retarded” or needed a guardian. A couple of Milagro’s posts even turned to Megan’s family, claiming alcoholism ran in it and making disparaging comments about her father and grandfather while continuing to describe Megan as an “angry black woman” to her audience.
In June 2024, things got even uglier. A pornographic deepfake video that falsely appeared to show Megan in sexual acts began circulating online, though Megan had no role in creating it and never consented to its existence or distribution. Milagro soon liked a post sharing the deepfake on X and told her followers to “go to my likes,” effectively pointing them to the clip. In a YouTube video the next day, the influencer acknowledged sending people to her likes to see what she was talking about. Megan says that move helped spread the altered video to Milagro’s audience and caused her serious emotional and reputational harm.
Milagro’s Diss to Megan’s HISS
Megan’s lawyers sent Milagro a formal preservation letter saying they planned to sue and telling her to keep all communications about Megan, Peterson, and Peterson’s father, Sonstar, instead of deleting or changing anything. The same day, Megan filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in Miami, where she lives and says she felt the brunt of the harm. She went to federal court instead of state court under diversity jurisdiction.
Megan accused the YouTuber of defamation, promoting an altered sexual depiction under a new Florida deepfake law, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and cyberstalking. The complaint paints Milagro as a kind of surrogate for Peterson, who used her platforms and even bot accounts to harass Megan, undermine the criminal verdict, and intimidate witnesses, all while knowing or recklessly ignoring that what she was saying wasn’t true.
A Body-ody-ody of Evidence
Last October, Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid ruled that Milagro had improperly deleted evidence and imposed sanctions against her. As a magistrate judge, Reid’s role was limited to those pretrial issues, while the trial and post‑verdict requests like Megan’s bid for a cyberstalking injunction were handled by a district judge: Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga.
In November, Chief Judge Altonaga presided over a trial in Miami. A federal jury heard days of testimony from Megan, expert witnesses, and others about the 2020 shooting, the deepfake video, and the emotional and financial fallout Megan says she suffered from Milagro’s online campaign. In December, the jury found Milagro liable for defamation per se, for promoting an altered sexual depiction of Megan, and for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and awarded Megan compensatory and punitive damages.
But apparently, even a jury verdict and a six‑figure judgment weren’t enough to get Milagro to stop talking about Megan online.
Milagro’s Plan B
In the weeks after she lost at trial, Milagro went live on Instagram and told followers she would pour her energy into a “mixtape,” framing the verdict as just “the next chapter” rather than a reason to back off. She also gave a CBS News Miami interview where she downplayed the impact of the deepfake, saying she hadn’t thought her actions would cause Megan that kind of harm, and kept posting in ways that minimized the verdict and took shots at one of Megan’s witnesses.
Megan’s lawyers pointed to those post‑verdict statements as proof that the harassment hadn’t really stopped and argued they showed a real risk it would continue unless the court stepped in. That’s where the cyberstalking claim came in: it had been part of the case from the start, but unlike the money‑damages counts, it asked the court for an injunction: a forward‑looking order to stop future cyberstalking, rather than another check.
Because injunctions are a type of equitable relief that judges, not juries, typically decide, the court reserved that issue for the judge to resolve after the verdict, rather than sending it to the panel with the rest of the claims.
Will Megan Get Her Hot Girl Summer?
In April 2026, Chief Judge Altonaga said no. In a written order, she denied Megan’s request for a permanent cyberstalking injunction.
Under Florida’s civil stalking and cyberstalking laws, injunctions are reserved for ongoing, targeted harassment. Florida law defines “harassment” as “conduct directed at a specific person which causes substantial emotional distress to that person and serves no legitimate purpose.” Judge Altonaga found that the standard wasn’t met because there was no evidence that Milagro tried to track Megan down in person, attend her performances, or directly contact her, as opposed to commenting about her online.
The First Amendment was the other barrier. A court order that tells someone in advance what they may not say is a “prior restraint,” and Florida and federal courts presume those are unconstitutional except in narrow circumstances. Much of what Megan wanted barred — future comments about her drinking, mental health, or family — would have been a content‑based gag order on speech about her, which Florida appellate courts have repeatedly rejected even for cruel or allegedly defamatory speech. Because Megan had already received money damages for past harm, the court treated a permanent stalking injunction as a last‑resort remedy for truly ongoing, directed harassment, not a way to silence a critic or prevent every future insult.
Megan may have gotten a big win in court, but she’s stuck with a public nemesis who’s still talking trash — and a federal order that says the Constitution lets her.
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