Megan Thee Stallion’s authorized battle with blogger Milagro Gramz simply took one other flip in her favor. On Thursday, October ninth, Judge Lisette M. Reid dominated in opposition to Gramz after discovering that she deleted essential proof tied to the case. The decide’s order acknowledged that Gramz erased “thousands of text messages” from her telephone even after being informed to maintain all related communications intact.

Court paperwork reveal that Megan’s authorized workforce had notified Gramz, whose actual identify is Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, to carry onto each bodily and digital data the day earlier than the lawsuit was filed. Still, Gramz deleted messages and even eliminated the WhatsApp utility from her telephone, which doubtless held key conversations. Since the content material of these messages can by no means be recovered, the court docket stated jurors can assume they might have harmed Gramz’s protection.

Judge Reid’s ruling additionally requires Gramz to cowl Megan’s prices for elevating the difficulty of the lacking proof. Both sides now have 5 days to agree on how a lot she pays, together with any charges related to the evidentiary listening to.

The case stems from Megan’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Gramz, filed earlier this 12 months. Megan accused the blogger of spreading false data and dealing with Tory Lanez’s father, Sonstar Peterson, to gasoline a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her after the 2020 taking pictures incident involving Lanez. The rapper claimed Gramz positioned herself as a “mouthpiece” for Lanez and contributed to the web harassment she confronted within the years after the taking pictures.

This will not be the primary monetary penalty issued in opposition to the blogger. Back in July, the court docket ordered Gramz to pay $5,000 to cowl Megan’s authorized bills for failing to supply her textual content messages. The lawsuit additionally alleges that Gramz circulated a deepfake pornographic video of Megan, which helped push the Houston star to take her to court docket for defamation.