Lady Gaga does not have to pay $500,000 reward to woman involved in dognapping case, judge rules
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Lady Gaga will not have to pay $500,000 to the woman who returned her two French bulldogs after they were stolen on a Los Angeles street in 2021 during a violent robbery in which Lady Gaga's dogwalker was shot and wounded, because the woman was connected to the robbery, a judge ruled this week.
A Los Angeles County Superior judge ruled Monday that the singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, does not have to pay Jennifer McBride the $500,000 reward offered for the safe return of her French bulldogs, Koji and Gustavto, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.
Judge Holly Fujie said that because McBride pleaded no contest to knowingly receiving stolen property in connection to the crime, she was "not entitled to thereafter benefit from their wrongdoing by seeking to enforce the contract."
