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Tory Lanez has asked a federal judge for a restraining order against a California prison guard, saying a threatened housing move and menacing comments after his 2025 stabbing leave him fearing for his life.
Tory Lanez is no longer arguing over charts or Grammys. He is arguing over where he sleeps, and who is allowed to hold the keys.
The rapper, born Daystar Peterson and serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, has filed new papers in federal court seeking a restraining order against a corrections officer at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, according to documents cited by TMZ.
In those filings, Lanez says he is enduring “ongoing threats, intimidation, and harassment” from a guard, and claims the officer is trying to move him into a more dangerous housing unit. The court papers, as described by TMZ, say a correctional officer even referenced his near-fatal prison stabbing in a threatening way, a remark Lanez took as a warning about what could happen next.
That history is central to his plea. In 2025, Lanez was attacked behind bars, stabbed 14 times, and left with two collapsed lungs. He later said he nearly died. The incident turned him from high-profile inmate to headline-making victim, raising questions about how a celebrity prisoner, known worldwide and already controversial, ended up so vulnerable inside a state facility.
Lanez responded with a $100 million lawsuit aimed at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the warden, and numerous officers. The suit accuses officials of placing him with a fellow inmate he describes as having a violent history, and of failing to protect him from the assault. In that civil case, he is no longer the criminal defendant the public remembers from the Megan Thee Stallion trial. He is the plaintiff arguing that the system charged with guarding him instead exposed him.
Now, through this new restraining order request, he argues that the very act of suing the system has made him a target all over again. TMZ reports that Lanez tells the court he fears retaliation for his $100 million lawsuit and believes his safety is at risk if the officer in question controls his housing.
Lanez is not asking for the guard to vanish from the prison entirely. The proposed order, according to TMZ, would limit contact to basic, unavoidable functions of prison life and would direct the facility not to retaliate against him. It is a legal attempt to redraw the invisible lines of power that govern who can stand near his cell door, who can sign off on his move, and who can decide which unit he calls home.
For a man whose name became synonymous with a violent attack on a woman in the music industry, this is a jarring reversal of roles. Many still see Lanez through the lens of the Megan Thee Stallion shooting and the hard-earned conviction that followed. Others look at the stabbing, the collapsed lungs, and the new allegations about threats inside California Men’s Colony and see an inmate arguing that even the most controversial prisoner is entitled to basic safety.
TMZ’s reporting on the filing does not include a response from the prison system or the officer named in the request. If a judge grants the order, it will draw a legal circle around one guard and one inmate, but the implications stretch further. The outcome will signal how much protection a famous, polarizing figure can realistically expect once the spotlight fades and the prison gates close.
Lanez’s catalog is frozen in time, but his legacy is still being rewritten far from any studio. What happens next will unfold not onstage, but in courtrooms and on cell blocks, where reputation, retaliation, and survival are all on the line.
Do you see Tory Lanez as a dangerous offender seeking extra privilege, a vulnerable inmate fighting for basic protection, or something in between? Share where you land on his evolving story, from the Megan Thee Stallion shooting to the stabbing, the $100 million lawsuit, and this new plea for a restraining order.
