Tory Lanez suffered one other devastating authorized blow on Wednesday when California’s appeals court docket rejected his bid to overturn his conviction for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.

The three-justice panel from the 2nd District Court of Appeal delivered a crushing 46-page ruling that demolished the protection’s claims of trial errors, cementing the Canadian rapper’s 10-year jail sentence.

The 33-year-old artist now faces mounting authorized stress, as he has been ordered to take a seat for his third deposition in Megan’s ongoing defamation lawsuit in opposition to blogger Milagro Gramz. However, court docket paperwork reveal he gained’t must reply questions in regards to the precise taking pictures incident that landed him behind bars.

The appeals court docket justices delivered a scathing evaluation of the Tory Lanez/ case, noting the testimony was “more than sufficient to support the jury’s finding that the rapper personally inflicted great bodily injury on” the Grammy-winning rapper, whose actual title is Megan Pete.

The ruling successfully ends Tory Lanez’s hopes of escaping his December 2022 conviction on three felony counts: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a hid unregistered firearm and negligent discharge of a firearm.

The taking pictures occurred throughout a heated July 12, 2020, argument following a gathering at Kylie Jenner‘s Hollywood Hills residence.

During the explosive trial, Megan testified that Tory Lanez shot her in each toes after telling her to “dance, b####,” and later provided her $1 million to remain quiet in regards to the incident.

The Houston rapper initially hesitated to talk publicly, admitting she “didn’t want to be a snitch,” however felt compelled to “defend my name” when false narratives started circulating.

Tory Lanez’s authorized troubles have solely intensified since his incarceration.

During an April 2025 deposition associated to Megan’s defamation case in opposition to Milagro Gramz, the imprisoned rapper turned the proceedings into chaos.

He repeatedly interrupted attorneys, accused them of planning to leak footage “to fake some sort of narrative,” and deflected fundamental questions by demanding definitions of easy phrases like “discuss” and “approve.”

When requested if he agreed that Megan Thee Stallion and Megan Pete had been the identical particular person, he responded evasively: “There’s a lot of Ms. Petes in this world. Which Ms. Pete are you talking about?” He even instructed his lawyer to “Google how many Megan Petes there are in the world.”

The disruptive habits backfired spectacularly. A federal judge ordered Tory Lanez to pay Megan’s legal fees for the botched deposition and mandated that his upcoming third deposition be supervised by a magistrate judge.

Megan’s authorized workforce described his conduct as “so disruptive, inflammatory, and inconsistent with the basic norms of civil litigation” that it “made a mockery of the proceedings.”

The defamation lawsuit facilities on allegations that Milagro Gramz, whose actual title is Milagro Cooper, acted because the rap star’s “paid surrogate” to unfold “vicious and hateful rumors” about Megan. The case claims Cooper promoted deepfake pornographic movies of the rapper and falsely instructed she suffers from alcoholism and requires a guardian.

In January, a Los Angeles decide granted Megan a five-year restraining order in opposition to Tory Lanez, citing “conduct that culminated in [Lanez] shooting approximately five rounds at petitioner that resulted in injuries to her.”

The order requires him to remain a minimum of 100 yards away from Megan till January 2030.

During emotional testimony for the restraining order, Megan revealed the continued toll of the harassment marketing campaign: “I haven’t been at peace since I been shot, and I’m just trying to be un-harassed, not only by the person who shot me, but by the people he’s been paying to continue to harass me.”

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