Andy Cohen Wants Leah McSweeney’s Lawsuit Against Him Tossed

Bravo star Andy Cohen is standing on enterprise concerning Leah McSweeney‘s scathing allegations in opposition to him and the well-known community.

In response to authorized paperwork obtained by The Blast, the “Watch What Happens Live!” host saved his promise to combat in opposition to McSweeney’s claims in courtroom. By their attorneys, Cohen and different defendants have filed a movement to dismiss the previous Bravolebrity’s lawsuit.

Cohen, the producers, community, distributors, and particular people who labored on the “Real Housewives of New York” and “The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey” are named as defendants in McSweeney’s lawsuit.

The checklist contains Lisa Shannon, John Paparazzo, Darren Ward, Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., Shed Media US Inc., NBCUniversal Media LLC, and Bravo Media LLC. 

These defendants, via their attorneys, argued that McSweeney’s complaints needs to be dismissed for a number of causes. The paperwork alleged:

“Whereas Plaintiff makes an attempt to overwhelm with a 754-paragraph criticism, even a cursory evaluation of her allegations reveals that many concern issues totally irrelevant to her claims and most are devoid of any factual or authorized assist, speculative, deceptive, and/or demonstrably false.”

Cohen’s protection crew claimed that lots of McSweeney’s complaints have been supported by “probably the most conclusory and threadbare allegations” and will be dismissed as a matter of regulation.

As for the remainder of the previous Housewife’s claims of discrimination, they wanted to be tossed as a result of:

“They impermissibly search to abridge Defendants’ First Modification rights to tailor and regulate the messages they want to convey of their inventive works, together with via solid choice and different inventive choices.”

Cohen’s protection crew got here ready as they slammed McSweeney’s allegations one after the opposite with attention-grabbing arguments. First, they tackled her surprising claims that the defendants had influenced her alcohol relapse in favor of rankings.

The previous Bravolebrity accused Cohen’s camp of directing solid members to say offensive feedback to her on-camera and declining to solid her on future seasons of “RHONY” as a result of they most popular displaying castmates that take alcohol.

Nonetheless, the defendants refuted these allegations and claimed that even when they have been true, they fell below “inventive expression.” Subsequently, McSweeney’s complaints needs to be dismissed per their First Modification protection.

“Selections about what to say or not say in an expressive work, in addition to ‘casting choices,’ are ‘half and parcel of the inventive course of,’ and subsequently advantage First Modification safety in opposition to the applying of anti-discrimination statutes to that course of,” Cohen’s camp argued.

In her scathing lawsuit, McSweeney accused Cohen’s nook of a number of offenses comparable to intercourse/gender discrimination and non secular discrimination. Nonetheless, the defendants famous that her intercourse/gender-based claims have been about three alleged incidents.

These incidents concerned two feedback Cohen allegedly made on-air throughout a “RHONY” reunion present within the fall of 2020 and one personal textual content message he despatched in December 2020 in response to McSweeney’s social media put up.

Cohen’s protection argued that the alleged feedback have been time-barred below the regulation, whereas the textual content message was “far too trivial” to assist McSweeney’s intercourse/gender-based claims.

As for the non secular discrimination, they argued that the unavailability of a non-pork possibility at an occasion was inadequate to again her claims by regulation.

Two months earlier than Cohen’s camp filed to dismiss McSweeney’s complaints, The Blast reported she had addressed the unfolding drama. Throughout an interview in March, the previous actuality TV star claimed her intentions have been pure, saying:

“As onerous as it’s to be going up in opposition to a really highly effective entity, and for folks to possibly additionally simply not agree with me or, , come at me and get blowback and all of the issues, I do not care as a result of that is the reality. I’ve it on my facet, and my intentions are actually good.”

Regardless of noting that she did not care about these in opposition to her, McSweeney confessed it was difficult coping with the backlash.

“Even once you’re in a very good place, it nonetheless hurts. It is nonetheless not an gratifying expertise to have folks coming at you or be coping with the scenario that I am in,” she lamented.

In March,The Blast reported that Cohen’s crew had threatened to sue McSweeney for defamation. They cautioned the previous Housewife to retract her false claims or be able to face them in courtroom.

“To be clear: these allegations are categorically false. Mr. Cohen by no means used cocaine with any solid member on any Actual Housewives present or with another Bravo worker,” the TV host’s attorneys argued in a letter.

“The reality issues. Litigation can’t be used to create pretend information. And it can’t be used as a car to unfold false and malicious lies, in furtherance of a shakedown,” they continued, including the warning:

“We demand that you just concern a right away public retraction and apologize to Mr. Cohen. On daily basis you fail to take action solely will increase the damages suffered by Mr. Cohen.”