Megan Thee Stallion

Megan Pete (b. 1995, San Antonio), known as Megan Thee Stallion, broke out of Houston’s freestyle scene to win the 2021 Best New Artist Grammy, with chart-toppers like “Savage” and “WAP” and a persona built on confidence and control — which made the AI attack on her image especially pointed.

Fighting a deepfake, in public and in court

In June 2024 a sexually explicit AI-generated video falsely depicting Megan spread across X. She confronted it head-on, calling the clip “fake ass shit” and telling those spreading it that they had gone too far. During a Tampa stop of her Hot Girl Summer tour days later, she broke down in tears on stage as fans rallied to her — a raw public moment that put a human face on deepfake abuse.

She then did what few victims can: litigated. Her lawsuit accused blogger Milagro Cooper (“Milagro Gramz”), alleged to be a paid surrogate of Tory Lanez, of maliciously promoting the deepfake. Testifying in Miami federal court in November 2025, Megan sobbed as she described feeling “defeated,” the depression that made her feel her life was not worth living, and a $240,000 intensive therapy program. In December 2025 the jury found Cooper liable for intentional infliction of emotional distress and for boosting the deepfake’s reach, awarding damages — one of the first verdicts of its kind over AI-generated pornography.

Megan’s fight is against nonconsensual sexual imagery, not music technology; she has taken no public position on AI in production. But her case — like the fakes that targeted Taylor Swift in January 2024 — became a rallying point for federal deepfake legislation and a warning that the tools of synthesis arrived long before the law protecting their victims.