Megan Thee Stallion has received high-profile support in her ongoing deepfake harassment dispute, as prominent attorney Roberta Kaplan – best known for representing writer E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump – publicly backed the Houston rapper and condemned blogger Milagro “Milagro Gramz” Cooper’s alleged role in spreading AI-driven sexualized content. According to AllHipHop, Kaplan framed the conduct as unlawful harassment under Florida law, intensifying legal and public scrutiny around deepfake abuse targeting Megan Thee Stallion, born Megan Pete.[5]
Kaplan, a nationally recognized litigator and civil-rights attorney, filed a statement aligning Megan’s case with a broader fight against weaponized misinformation and sexualized deepfake imagery online.[5] According to AllHipHop’s report, Kaplan argued that “deep-fake sexual imagery does not contribute to public debate; it reproduces patterns of intimidation and degradation that the law has long deemed unprotected,” directly pushing back on Cooper’s attempts to cast her commentary as protected speech.[5] The attorney’s involvement echoes her work for E. Jean Carroll, where defamation law was used to hold a powerful figure accountable for repeated falsehoods and reputational harm, a legal framework that Megan’s team is now leveraging in federal court.[5]
Megan Thee Stallion first sued Cooper in October 2024 in the Southern District of Florida, alleging a sustained campaign of online harassment, defamatory claims, and the amplification of a sexually explicit deepfake video falsely depicting the Grammy-winning artist.[1][2] According to court filings described by Miami New Times and Law Commentary, Cooper allegedly acted as an online “mouthpiece” for Tory Lanez, spreading accusations that Megan lied under oath and encouraging her followers to view a manipulated pornographic clip of the “Savage” rapper without her consent.[1][2][3] In December 2025, a Miami federal jury found Cooper liable for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, awarding Megan $75,000 in damages before the amount was later reduced in accordance with Florida law.[2][3]
Reports from Essence and Law Commentary noted that jurors concluded Cooper willfully boosted the visibility of the deepfake and contributed to Megan’s emotional distress, with testimony describing how the video and ongoing commentary severely impacted the artist’s mental health and forced her to seek treatment.[2][3] According to BET, Megan’s legal team has since requested a permanent injunction to stop Cooper from continuing similar online targeting, citing post-verdict social media activity that allegedly minimized the ruling and signaled an intent to persist under the guise of “artistic expression.”[4] AllHipHop reports that Kaplan’s latest filing supports Megan’s bid to clamp down on this conduct and explicitly ties deepfake abuse to harassment and cyberstalking concerns under Florida law.[4][5]
Kaplan’s backing positions Megan Thee Stallion’s case as a potential landmark in how courts treat AI-generated sexual content, defamation, and online harassment against public figures.[5] By linking Megan’s experience to the legal principles that underpinned E. Jean Carroll’s victories, Kaplan is helping to frame deepfake porn as an emerging frontier in defamation and cyberstalking law, one that could shape future protections for artists, women, and other victims of digitally fabricated sexual imagery.[5] For hip-hop, where artists already navigate intense scrutiny and online commentary, the outcome of Megan’s fight may set a crucial precedent for what crosses the line from criticism to unlawful abuse in the age of AI.
