Andy Cohen, NBCUniversal & Warner Bros Discovery Want Leah McSweeney’s “Threadbare” Drugs & Drink Filled Suit Tossed Out; Not So Fast, Says RHONY’s Lawyer

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Andy Cohen once described the Real Housewives franchise as “guilt free gossiping,” and now he, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros Discovery and others are denying any guilt in the workplace discrimination and retaliation claims from RHONY vet Leah McSweeney.

And, with the Constitution as their primary shield, it ain’t pretty. “While Plaintiff attempts to overwhelm with a 754-paragraph complaint, even a cursory review of her allegations reveals that many concern matters entirely irrelevant to her claims and most are devoid of any factual or legal support, speculative, misleading, and/or demonstrably false,” declares a memorandum of law supporting Cohen’s May 22 motion to toss out McSweeney’s drugs, drink and discrimination claims of February 27.

Prepared by Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp’s Christine Lepera, Jacaob Albertson and Adam Levin, the motion, which is also of behalf of fellow defendants NBCU, WBD,  Lisa Shannon, John Paparazzo, Darren Ward, Shed Media US Inc and Bravo Media, wants NYC-based U.S.

District Judge Lewis J. Liman to set a date for hearing ASAP to see the matter tossed. “Many of Plaintiff’s claims, supported only by the most conclusory and threadbare allegations, should be dismissed as a matter of law,” the 32-page memo goes on to say of McSweeney’s somewhat explosive suit. “The rest of Plaintiff’s claims should be dismissed because they impermissibly seek to abridge Defendants’ First Amendment rights to tailor and adjust the messages they wish to convey in their creative works, including through cast selection and other creative decisions.”  Far from the first member of the Housewives multiverse to put Cohen and his conduct under the microscope, McSweeney’s long expected suit of earlier this year certainly had