LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 09: Lady Gaga attends the UK Premiere Of "House of Gucci" at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on November 09, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Universal Pictures )
Lady Gaga does not have to pay her dognapper the half-a-million-dollar reward she offered after the kidnapping of her two French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, a judge ruled.
Earlier this year, dog thief Jennifer McBride sued Gaga for a “breach of contract” of the “no questions asked” $500,000 reward. The lawsuit asked for compensation demanding three times the amount Gaga offered and claimed that the Grammy winner had a hidden “intent to defraud and induce members of the public, such as Plaintiff, to rely upon it and act upon said promise by locating and delivering [her] bulldogs to Defendants.”
The Los Angeles County Superior Court issued a court order this week stating that McBride was “not entitled to thereafter benefit from their wrongdoing by seeking to enforce the contract.”
The incident transpired in February 2021 when Gaga was in Rome, and her dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, was walking her three French bulldogs. Fischer was shot in the chest as the two dogs were stolen, and the third, Miss Asia, ran away. The two kidnapped dogs were returned two days later, while Miss Asia was found by authorities after the commotion.
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Before her lawsuit against Gaga, her accomplice, James Howard Jackson, who shot and nearly killed Gaga’s dogwalker, was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Jaylin White was given four years in jail, and Lafayette Whaley was sentenced to six years. White’s father and McBride’s boyfriend, Harold White, has not been convicted and will be sentenced this year.
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