Andy Cohen Desires Leah McSweeney’s Lawsuit Towards Him Tossed

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

Based on authorized paperwork obtained by The Blast, the “Watch What Occurs Reside!” host saved his promise to combat in opposition to McSweeney’s claims in courtroom. Via 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 “Actual Housewives of New York” and “The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey” are named as defendants in McSweeney’s lawsuit.

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

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

“Whereas Plaintiff makes an attempt to overwhelm with a 754-paragraph grievance, even a cursory evaluate 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 group claimed that a lot of McSweeney’s complaints had been supported by “essentially the most conclusory and threadbare allegations” and may 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 artistic works, together with by means of solid choice and different artistic selections.”

Cohen’s protection group got here ready as they slammed McSweeney’s allegations one after the opposite with attention-grabbing arguments. First, they tackled her stunning 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 well-liked displaying castmates that take alcohol.

Nevertheless, the defendants refuted these allegations and claimed that even when they had been true, they fell underneath “artistic expression.” Subsequently, McSweeney’s complaints ought to be dismissed per their First Modification protection.

“Choices about what to say or not say in an expressive work, in addition to ‘casting selections,’ are ‘half and parcel of the artistic course of,’ and subsequently benefit 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 resembling intercourse/gender discrimination and non secular discrimination. Nevertheless, the defendants famous that her intercourse/gender-based claims had 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 non-public textual content message he despatched in December 2020 in response to McSweeney’s social media submit.

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

As for the spiritual 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 had been pure, saying:

“As exhausting as it’s to be going up in opposition to a really highly effective entity, and for individuals to perhaps additionally simply not agree with me or, you already know, 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 aspect, 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 extremely good place, it nonetheless hurts. It is nonetheless not an pleasing expertise to have individuals coming at you or be coping with the state of affairs that I am in,” she lamented.

In March,The Blast reported that Cohen’s group 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 some other Bravo worker,” the TV host’s attorneys argued in a letter.

“The reality issues. Litigation can’t be used to create faux 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 direct public retraction and apologize to Mr. Cohen. Daily you fail to take action solely will increase the damages suffered by Mr. Cohen.”