A judge tossed out a lawsuit against Lady Gaga over an unpaid $500,000 stolen dog reward
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- A Los Angeles judge dismissed a $500,000 lawsuit against Lady Gaga for unpaid reward money regarding her stolen dogs.
- Jennifer McBride filed the suit in February 2023 after returning Gaga's dogs two days after they were stolen.
- McBride was previously arrested in connection with the 2021 robbery and pleaded no contest to one count of receiving stolen property.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed a $500,000 lawsuit against Lady Gaga for an unpaid stolen dog reward Monday, according to court records.
In February, Jennifer McBride filed a lawsuit against the singer alleging she never received the $500,000 award Gaga promised after she returned the pop star's stolen French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav.
McBride said she located the dogs two days after they were stolen in a February 2021 robbery where Gaga's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot.
McBride was also one of the five arrested over the dogs' kidnapping. In December 2022, she received two years probation after pleading no contest to one count of receiving stolen property, per the Los Angeles Times.
Judge Holly J. Fujie ruled that since McBride was previously charged in connection with the theft, "successful pursuit of her current claims would allow her to benefit from her admitted wrongdoing," according to court documents obtained by Insider.
Lawyers for Gaga and McBride did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
James Howard Jackson, the man who shot Fischer, was sentenced in December 2022 to 21 years in prison for his involvement, and, according to Deadline, Lafayette Whaley and Jaylin White, the two other men involved in the robbery, received six years and four years in prison, respectively.
Jaylin's father, Harold White, was charged with " possessing a firearm with a prior conviction." His sentence is unknown.
"You shot me and left me to die, and both of our lives have changed forever," Fischer told Jackson in the courtroom, per Rolling Stone.
Per his Instagram, Fischer appears to have fully recovered and still works with dogs.