WHERE'S MY MONEY? Woman involved in theft of Lady Gaga's dogs sues singer for not paying her $500K reward
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: In an absolutely shocking lawsuit, the woman accused of stealing Lady Gaga's French Bulldogs claims the singer never fulfilled her promise to pay out a $500,000 bounty and is now asking a judge to order the singer to pay up. According to Jennifer McBride, 36-year-old Gaga clarified that she would pay the significant cash "no questions asked" if her dogs were delivered without damage.
After her purebred pups, Koji and Gustav were taken from her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, under gunpoint in February 2021, the 'Bloody Marry' singer made the announcement of the reward. In addition to the $500,000, McBride is now asking the court to raise the damages to $1.5 million for allegedly promoting a deceptive incentive, per reports from Page Six.
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What does Jennifer McBride say?
As an accessory to the crime after the fact, McBride was charged with receiving stolen items in connection with the theft. She apparently dated the father of one of the men accused of assaulting Gaga's dog walker, which explains how she was connected to the culprits, as reported by TMZ.
She later entered a no-contest plea to one count of receiving stolen items and received two years of probation. A day after they were kidnapped, on February 26, McBride now claims to have given the dogs back to Gaga at the LAPD Olympic Communities station, but never got her reward.
What happened with Lady Gaga's dogwalker and pups?
MEAWW previously reported two Black men shot Lady Gaga's dog walker four times in the chest and stole the singer's two French bulldogs in a shocking incident. The incident is said to have occurred on the night of February 24th, while the star was in Italy.
Ryan Fischer, 30, was shot while walking Gaga's dogs Koji, Miss Asia, and Gustavo in West Hollywood around 10 pm. The attack took place outside Fischer's home on Sierra Bonita Avenue. When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered the man conscious but barely breathing. His condition was described as "grave," so he was rushed to the hospital.
The assailants took two of Gaga's dogs, Koji and Gustavo. Meanwhile, Miss Asia escaped and was later apprehended by the police. They wrapped her in a blanket and drove her to the LAPD headquarters in Hollywood, where she was later picked up by one of Gaga's bodyguards.
According to sources, the 34-year-old singer was "extremely upset" and had offered a $500,000 reward to whoever finds or returns her dogs "no questions asked."
James Howard Jackson, who police believe to be the trigger man, was one of three people charged with the attempted murder of the dogwalker and the kidnapping of the pop star's three french bulldogs. Jackson shot the dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, with a .40 caliber handgun but pleaded no contest to a count of attempted murder and received a 21-year prison sentence.