Lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion say social media personality DJ Akademiks must reveal whether Tory Lanez sent him a confidential DNA testing report during the now-jailed Canadian rapper’s 2022 prosecution for shooting Megan in the foot.
Megan is in the final stages of collecting evidence for her upcoming defamation trial against Milagro Gramz, a gossip blogger and ardent online defender of Lanez. The Houston rapper (Megan Pete) claims Lanez and his associates hired Gramz (Milagro Cooper) to post false information about the 2020 shooting, for which Lanez (Daystar Peterson) is now serving a 10-year prison term.
One of the many Gramz social media posts Megan’s lawyers have taken issue with is a 2022 tweet announcing that Lanez’s DNA was not found on the gun that shot Megan. Gramz uploaded this message to Twitter (now X) at the same time that fellow Lanez supporter DJ Akademiks (Livingston Allen) posted an identical tweet.
Megan’s attorneys say these tweets mischaracterized the evidence: DNA testing on the gun was inconclusive, meaning analysts could not determine whether the genetic material belonged to Lanez or not. And because this report was under a court-ordered seal at the time of the tweets, Megan’s team claims it must have been leaked by Lanez or his associates.
“Circulating these erroneous posts was not merely premature publication: both Cooper and Allen disseminated false characterizations of evidence months before the trial even began,” wrote Megan’s lawyers in a Tuesday (Sept. 16) court filing. “Ms. Pete seeks discovery to prove that Peterson or his surrogates leaked that information — and perhaps even suggested the language of the tweet — to Cooper and Allen.”
Megan’s team is now seeking a court order that would force Akademiks to say how he learned about this DNA evidence. While Akademiks is not being sued, he was deposed for the Gramz trial last month — and he “flatly refused” to reveal his source.
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“Identifying this source is essential to proving the coordination between Cooper and Peterson and exposing Cooper’s intent for perpetuating false and demeaning claims against Ms. Pete,” wrote Megan’s attorneys.
Reps for Akademiks, Gramz and Lanez did not immediately return requests for comment on Monday (Sept. 22).
Lanez was found guilty of three felony charges in 2022 for shooting Megan in the foot during a drunken argument after Kylie Jenner‘s pool party in July 2020. The Canadian rapper maintains his innocence and is still appealing the conviction.
Megan sued Gramz in 2024 for allegedly spreading falsehoods about the case online, including the mischaracterized DNA report, as part of a “coordinated campaign” to undermine the guilty verdict and ruin Megan’s reputation.
Gramz denies any wrongdoing and says her social media activity is First Amendment-protected free speech. The case is approaching a November trial date in Miami federal court.
