Megan Thee Stallion secured one other authorized win in her civil case in opposition to blogger Milagro Gramz after a federal choose dominated that the social media commentator deleted extra proof vital to the rapper’s claims of on-line harassment and defamation.

The ruling, issued October 9, 2025, adopted an evidentiary listening to the place the court docket decided that Gramz deliberately erased further messages regardless of court docket orders to protect them.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid concluded that Milagro Gramz’ conduct met the authorized normal for dangerous religion beneath federal guidelines, clearing the best way for a dangerous jury instruction in opposition to her.

The court docket will now permit jurors to imagine the lacking messages would have harm Gramz’s protection and supported Megan’s allegations. Additionally, she should cowl Megan Thee Stallion’s authorized bills associated to the spoliation listening to.

This newest growth provides to a rising listing of sanctions already imposed on Milagro Gramz within the case, which stems from Megan’s October 2024 lawsuit accusing the blogger of orchestrating a coordinated smear marketing campaign after the conviction of rapper Tory Lanez for capturing Megan in 2020.

The lawsuit alleges Gramz used her social media platforms—the place she has amassed greater than 100,000 followers—to unfold conspiracy theories, mock Megan’s trauma, and flow into manipulated or deepfake content material.

Megan Thee Stallion claims Gramz’s posts amounted to defamation, cyberstalking and intentional infliction of emotional misery.

Court information present that Milagro Gramz was formally instructed to protect all communications associated to the case shortly after the lawsuit was filed.

However, a forensic overview revealed she deleted hundreds of textual content and WhatsApp messages, together with exchanges with Lanez—actual identify Daystar Peterson—and his father, Sonstar Peterson, each of whom are alleged to have been concerned within the marketing campaign concentrating on Megan.

During earlier proceedings, Gramz admitted she had deleted messages however failed to supply a transparent purpose for why key conversations disappeared. As a end result, the court docket beforehand ordered her to cooperate with forensic specialists and protect remaining cellphone information.

In the latest order, Judge Reid discovered Milagro Gramz’s deletion of further messages violated her authorized obligation and confirmed a transparent intent to withhold proof.

“The Court finds that [Milagro Gramz] acted in bad faith,” the order said and is planning to impose extreme penalties for her intent to hinder the case.

The adversarial inference instruction may show vital at trial, because it permits Megan’s authorized staff to argue that the lacking messages would have supported her claims of a deliberate on-line marketing campaign to break her repute and psychological well being.

The choose additionally ordered either side to fulfill and try and agree on the quantity she should pay to reimburse Megan’s attorneys. If they can not attain a consensus, Judge Reid will decide the quantity herself.

The subsequent part of the case will probably give attention to trial preparation, the place Megan’s staff can now use the court docket’s ruling to bolster her claims of focused harassment and digital defamation.

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