Milagro Gramz is taking another swing at the $75,000 Megan Thee Stallion verdict, but the latest move comes after a federal judge made it clear that the judgment is still enforceable.
The blogger, whose legal name is Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, filed an amended notice of appeal on June 30 in her ongoing legal battle with Megan Thee Stallion. The new filing updates the appeal she first filed in January, shortly after a Miami federal jury found her liable in Megan’s defamation case.
Court records show the case was filed as Megan Pete v. Milagro Elizabeth Cooper in the Southern District of Florida on October 29, 2024. According to PACERMonitor, Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga entered an amended final judgment on May 29, 2026, in favor of Megan Pete on Counts I, II, and III of her second amended complaint.
The amended appeal matters because the money at issue changed during the case. Gramz’s original appeal came when the judgment against her had been reduced to $59,000, even though the jury initially awarded Megan $75,000. The reduction happened after Gramz was treated as a “media defendant,” a classification that raised an issue under Florida law about pre-suit notice.
That ruling did not hold. Judge Altonaga later reinstated the full $75,000 judgment after deciding Gramz was not entitled to “media defendant” protection. The judge found Gramz had been “commissioned” by Tory Lanez and his father “to publish or broadcast” defamatory statements about Megan.
Judge Altonaga reversed the earlier reduction on May 29, 2026, and reinstated the full judgment after citing evidence that Cooper coordinated with Tory Lanez and his father, Sonstar Peterson, to slander Megan in connection with Lanez’s criminal defense.
According to Legal Affairs and Trials, Megan’s lawyers had asked the court to reinstate the jury’s verdict on the defamation claim and amend the final judgment after the earlier reduction. The outlet reported that the judge had previously allowed the jury to consider whether Gramz qualified as media, but the later ruling ultimately changed the final dollar amount.
The $75,000 Megan Thee Stallion verdict now includes several categories of damages. The breakdown includes $50,000 tied to the deepfake video, $15,000 for defamation, $8,000 for emotional distress, and $1,000 in punitive damages on each of two counts.
Gramz also tried to delay payment while her appeal moves forward. Judge Altonaga denied her request to stay enforcement on June 29. The judge ruled that Gramz had not shown a likelihood of success on appeal and had offered only “generalized disagreement with the jury’s verdict and the Court’s post-trial rulings.”
Gramz would need to post an appeal bond of $82,500 to formally pause enforcement under Miami federal court rules. Judge Altonaga rejected her request to waive or reduce that bond after finding that Gramz had not submitted enough proof of hardship with her original motion. When Gramz later submitted a sworn financial statement with her reply brief, the judge declined to consider it because it had not been included in the initial filing.
Gramz said in court papers that she does not have “substantial liquid assets” and lacks the financial resources to immediately satisfy the judgment. She also described herself as self-employed and head of household, with income that “fluctuate[s] from month to month.”
Megan’s legal team opposed the request to pause the $75,000 Megan Thee Stallion judgment. Megan’s attorneys argued that Gramz should not be allowed to avoid the judgment without posting a bond. In that filing, Megan’s team described Gramz as “the same Defendant who showed no hesitation when she broadcast that Plaintiff was a liar, directed her audience to a deep-fake pornographic video of Plaintiff, and threatened to run Plaintiff over with a car.”
Megan’s lawyers continued, “Sympathy cannot displace the governing legal standard. Defendant’s Motion should be denied in its entirety, and if any stay is to issue, it should be conditioned upon a full supersedeas bond in the amount of the judgment plus anticipated interest and costs.”
The lawsuit itself centered on Megan’s claims that Gramz repeatedly spread false and damaging statements about her. Megan sued Cooper in October 2024 and accused her of serving as a “longtime mouthpiece” for Tory Lanez and his family. Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was convicted in connection with the 2020 shooting of Megan and is serving a 10-year prison sentence.
The jury found Cooper liable for defaming Megan and intentionally inflicting emotional distress by coordinating with Lanez. The outlet also reported that jurors found Cooper knowingly promoted a digitally altered sexual depiction of Megan in violation of a Florida law enacted in 2024.
The case has grown beyond a celebrity dispute because it deals with online influence, misinformation, deepfake content, and the limits of media protection in the digital commentary space. The $75,000 Megan Thee Stallion judgment also puts a spotlight on how courts may treat creators who claim media status while allegedly coordinating with outside parties to push damaging narratives.
For Megan, the appeal does not erase the current ruling. For Gramz, the amended filing means she is now challenging both the reinstated $75,000 damages figure and the court’s decision denying her media defendant status. The judgment remains in place unless Gramz pays or posts the required bond to pause enforcement.
The next chapter will play out in the appeals process, but for now, the court’s message is direct. The $75,000 Megan Thee Stallion verdict is back in full, and Gramz has not been allowed to delay payment without meeting the bond requirement.
