Lady Gaga wins case to keep $500,000 dognapping reward

nme.com:

Lady Gaga won the lawsuit brought against her by the woman who “found” her dogs and won’t have to pay the $500,000 (£359k) reward promised for their return.Jennifer McBride, the woman who was charged in connection to the 2021 theft of the pop singer’s two French Bulldogs, previously sued Gaga for the reward as well as an additional $1.5m in damages.On Monday (October 2), Judge Holly Fujie ruled in favour of Gaga, saying (in her court order obtained by People) that McBride’s complaint was “legally insufficient in its entirety” following her “involvement in the theft”.The court order also pointed out that McBride was indicted and pleaded no contest to charges of receiving stolen property in 2022, and was therefore “not entitled to thereafter benefit from their wrongdoing by seeking to enforce the contract.”In February 2021, Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot while taking the singer’s two dogs, Gustavo and Koji, out for a walk.

The gunman stole the dogs from Fischer after shooting him.Last year, James Howard Jackson was sentenced to 21 years in prison for shooting Fischer.

He was one of three men who attacked the dog walker.While the men did not know that the dogs belonged to Gaga, they knew they were valuable.

After Fischer refused to hand over the dogs, Jackson shot him with a handgun at close range, puncturing his lung and hospitalising him.The ‘Rain On Me’ star spoke out about the attack publicly for the first time on Feburary 26, 2021.