A Los Angeles judge has ruled that Lady Gaga will not have to pay the $500,000 reward to the woman who returned her stolen French bulldogs.
Back in February 2021, the 37-year-old 'Bad Romance' songstress - whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - announced a $500,000 reward after her dogs, Koji, Gustav, and Miss Asia, were stolen at gunpoint from her dog walker, Ryan Fischer.
Fischer tried to protect the singer's beloved pets but Gustav and Koji were abducted after he was brutally shot in the chest and collapsed.
At first, Miss Asia ran away but thankfully the dog was later found by police officers. Soon after, a woman named Jennifer McBride found Gustav and Koji and returned them to Gaga.
Five people in connection to the robbery were apprehended by the police, including McBride, the accomplice who eventually turned in the dogs.
After McBride turned in the pups, cops found out that she was reportedly dating the father of the men responsible for assaulting Fischer - who was hospitalized after sustaining chest wounds after being shot.
Earlier this year, TMZ reported that McBride claimed that she returned the dogs to the 'Poker Face' musician at the LAPD Olympic Community station on February 26, 2021 - two days after they were taken.
McBride decided to sue the 'Born This Way' singer for not paying her advertised reward and was actually seeking damages of $1.5 million.
L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee disclosed to the outlet that the woman was aware the pups were stolen when she returned them. She also knew the dog snatchers involved in the shooting for years but she intended to just obtain the money.
However, she was later charged in connection with the robbery after receiving stolen property and being an accessory to the crime. She eventually pled no contest to one count of receiving stolen property and was slammed with two years of probation, according to the Los Angeles Times.
On Monday (October 2), the A Star Is Born actress emerged victorious after a judge announced that she was not obligated to pay the $500k reward money she offered for the safe return of her puppies.
In July, it was ruled that because of McBride's "involvement in the theft" her case against Gaga was "legally insufficient in its entirety," as reported by PEOPLE.
Since the woman was indicted and pleaded no contest to charges of receiving stolen property in 2022, she was therefore "not entitled to thereafter benefit from their wrongdoing by seeking to enforce the contract," as stated in the court order.
McBride tried to contend in her amendment that she wasn't involved in the actual theft - which led to the arrest of James Howard Jackson for shooting Fischer. He was ultimately sentenced to 21 years in prison.
But now, the court "finds that nothing alleged in the [first amended complaint] changes" its earlier finding, and because the judge will not authorize McBride to another revised complaint, this means the case is now closed.
