The conspirator sued Gaga earlier this year over her $500,000 reward offer after the singer-actress’s two canines were stolen in 2021.

In a case brought by a party involved in the February 2021 theft of the singer-actress’s two dogs, Lady Gaga has won a temporary court success on a reward-related claim.

According to a court document obtained by Read this story, a judge has determined that the $500,000 reward Gaga offered for finding her two stolen dogs, Koji and Gustavto, is not enforceable as a contract with collaborator Jennifer McBride, who filed the lawsuit in an effort to claim the reward after returning Gaga’s dogs.

The complaint of McBride, who claimed a breach of contract when Gaga, 37, refused to pay her the reward in the case, was “legally insufficient in its entirety” as a result of her “involvement in the theft,” according to a court order from the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday.

The order states that McBride was charged with receiving stolen property in 2022 and that he pled not guilty to the accusations. As a result, he is “not entitled to thereafter benefit from their wrongdoing by seeking to enforce the contract.”

In the case, McBride’s lawyer claimed that Gaga broke the terms of the agreement when she offered a “no questions asked” prize after the theft of her two dogs, which resulted in the shooting and critical injury of the singer’s dog walker Ryan Fischer.

According to the court document, Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) was also charged with fraud by false promise and fraud by misrepresentation.
The paper stated that, should Gaga choose to launch a civil action, McBride may be subject to three times the amount of damages and attorney’s fees in addition to “imprisonment in a county jail” for up to a year.

According to the court document, McBride has 20 days to revise her original papers.

In April 2021, McBride and five other people were detained for the theft of a puppy. She was dating Harold White, a fellow conspirator and the father of Jaylin White, at the time. James Jackson, Lafayette Whaley, and Jaylin all took part in the heist and shooting.
The couple was detained on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact to an attempted murder, a charge for which McBride was ultimately found not guilty, according to a prior news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Jackson, who shot dog walker Fischer, entered a no guilty plea to attempted murder with great bodily injury in December 2022 and was given a 21-year prison term. Prosecutors dismissed other minor charges against him as a result of his plea, including conspiracy to commit robbery, second-degree robbery, assault with a semiautomatic weapon, and felon in possession of a handgun in a moving vehicle.
Fischer stated in a statement before Jackson’s sentencing that he had gotten into debt since the shooting, which left him with a collapsed lung. Fischer stayed with Gaga as he recovered.

Jackson was then told, “I do forgive you. Your attack completely changed my life. I know that until I spoke those words to you, I wouldn’t be able to forget the night you shot me.

Jackson’s choice to spare the puppies’ lives was also confirmed by Fischer, who stated, “They were returned and returned to their mum. If they had passed away, I doubt I could have survived.