A federal jury in Miami has partially sided with rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion in her lawsuit against a Houston-based online commentator.
The Grammy-award-winning performer, whose legal name is Megan Pete, had accused Milagro Cooper of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and promotion of an altered sexual depiction — an AI-generated deepfake that purported to show Pete in a pornographic video. It did not.
Cooper was sent a link to the video while doing a livestream in June 2024 and, while debating its authenticity, tweeted to her then-20,000 followers they could find a link in her likes, according to testimony in the eight-day trial. After determining it was fake, her lawyer Jeremy McLymont told jurors, she deleted the link during the same livestream.
On Monday,

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