Lady Gaga gets sued for not giving $500K reward to dog thief
Lady Gaga is sued by dog theft accomplice for refusing to pay $500K reward woman thought she’d get for returning Poker Face singer’s two French bulldogs ‘no questions asked’
Lady Gaga is being sued by the woman charged with the theft of her two French bulldogs.
Jennifer McBride said that Gaga, 36, made it clear that she would pay the person who returned her dogs $500K, ‘no questions asked.’
The Poker Face singer announced the reward in February 2021 after her dogs were taken.
McBride reportedly wants the $500K and also wants the court to triple the damages to $1.5 million for posting the misleading reward, according to TMZ,
The star’s pups, Koji and Gustav, were stolen from her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, at gunpoint in Los Angeles.
Taken: Lady Gaga has been sued by the woman who was charged as an accomplice in the theft of two of her dogs
The report explained that several men pulled up next to Fischer, jumped out of the car, and grabbed the pups, shooting him in the process.
Fischer was walking all three of the pop star’s pups, but the assailants only took two of them.
He was left shot on the sidewalk when neighbors found him, and ended up surviving his injuries.
L.A. County Deputy District Attorney, Michele Hanisee, told TMZ McBride was aware the pups were stolen when she returned them.
Her intention was to obtain the reward. She also had known the men involved in the shooting for years.
McBride originally returned the dogs to the American Horror Story actress at the LAPD Olympic Community station two days after they were taken.
She was later charged with receiving stolen property in connection to the left.
The woman was also charged with being an accessory to the crime after the fact.
Allegedly, McBride was dating the father of one of the men responsible for the crime.
The man who shot Fischer, James Howard Jackson, pled no contest to a count of attempted murder and was given 21 years in prison.
Pups: The woman, Jennifer McBride, claimed that she did not receive the $500K reward, despite being a part of the theft itself
Survival: The Poker Face’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer was shot by one of the assailants
Alive: The report explained that several men pulled up next to Fischer, jumped out of the car, and grabbed the pups, shooting him in the process
One of the family: Gaga posted on her social media about the reward and said there would be ‘no questions asked’ once the dogs were returned
Tricks: McBride wants the $500K and also wants the court to triple the damages to $1.5 million for posting the misleading reward
The Just Dance singer originally shared an Instagram post where she expressed her heartache as well as information about the reward.
She wrote: ‘My heart is sick and I am praying my family will be whole again with an act of kindness. I will pay $500,000 for their safe return.’
Gaga also said: ‘Or, if you bought or found them unknowingly, the reward is the same.
‘I continue to love you Ryan Fischer, you risked your life to fight for our family. You’re forever a hero.’
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