Lady Gaga is being sued by Jennifer McBride, the woman who returned the singer’s stolen dogs last year, for failing to pay a $500,000 reward Gaga offered for anyone who returns them.
In the lawsuit obtained by BuzzFeed News, McBride claimed the Grammy winner “tricked” her by “making a promise he wouldn’t keep.” As a result, McBride, who was eventually charged in connection with the theft of Gaga’s dogs, said in the lawsuit that she suffered pain, suffering, mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life.
The French bulldogs were stolen in a robbery on February 24, 2021, where Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fisher, was shot in the chest. McBride returned the dogs to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Olympic community unit on February 26 after Gaga offered the reward “no questions asked.”
A representative for Lady Gaga did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Authorities arrested McBride along with James Howard Jackson, Lafayette Whaley and Jaylin White—whose father McBride was dating—later that year and charged her with conspiracy to commit attempted murder before prosecutors dropped the .
McBride was charged with receiving stolen property in exchange and sentenced to two years of probation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Jackson received 21 years, while Whaley and White received four years for second-degree robbery.
