Andy Cohen Claims Leah McSweeney Wanted a 'Media Frenzy' With Lawsuit | O0V47VK | 2024-03-09 23:08:02
Andy Cohen Claims Leah McSweeney Wanted a 'Media Frenzy' With Lawsuit | O0V47VK | 2024-03-09 23:08:02
Andy Cohen's legal professionals are claiming that former The Real Housewives of New York City star Leah McSweeney's bombshell lawsuit towards him is "affected by false, offensive, and defamatory statements."
Page Six obtained a letter on Thursday, March 7, which was despatched from Cohen's lawyer to McSweeney's authorized workforce, asking for a retraction relating to sure claims concerning the Bravo boss.
"We demand that you simply immediately retract and withdraw all allegations referring to Mr. Cohen's purported 'cocaine use,'" Cohen's lawyer, Orin Snyder of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, wrote, noting that McSweeney's claims have been "categorically false."
In her go well with, filed on February 27, McSweeney, 41, alleged, partially, that Cohen, 55, "engaged in cocaine use" with numerous members of The Actual Housewives franchise and different Bravo stars. Cohen initially responded in a press release to The Hollywood Reporter on February 28, calling the claims "utterly false." Thursday's letter obtained by Page Six doubled down on the denial.
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"Mr. Cohen by no means used cocaine with any forged member on any 'Real Housewives' show or with another Bravo employee," Cohen's lawyer wrote, including that "an allegation of drug use in the office is a critical cost."
The lawyer also addressed McSweeney's authorized workforce head-on.
"The allegations have been clearly made up by you and/or your shopper to realize maximum tabloid clickbait worth within the hopes of weaponizing these false allegations — together with different lies that permeate the grievance — as leverage to pressure an unjustified settlement," the letter read. "It won't. As an alternative, this conduct only subjects you and your shopper to unbiased and substantial legal exposure."
The notice continued to state that McSweeney's "purpose for inventing the false allegations in the first place" was "to create a media frenzy and strain in an try and drive a settlement."
McSweeney's lawyer responded to Cohen's letter in a press release obtained by Us Weekly.
"That Andy Cohen had his counsel and PR agents write a threatening letter to offer to the press is hardly shocking. Mr. Cohen is accustomed to utilizing his energy within the media to scare and intimidate individuals like Ms. McSweeney so that they will not converse out," the assertion read. "Mr. Cohen's try and discredit and intimidate Ms. McSweeney to deter her from partaking in legally protected activity in Courtroom is strictly the type of retaliation that this lawsuit was brought to deal with and solely is additional evidence for Ms. McSweeney."
The statement concluded: "We do not intend to litigate this matter within the press, and if Mr. Cohen needs to deal with Ms. McSweeney's claims, we advise he achieve this in Courtroom, not in a letter for the press."
McSweeney's lawsuit also named Bravo, NBC/Universal, production home Shed Media U, and producers John Paparazzo, Lisa Shannon and Darren Ward. Apart from the drug allegations towards Cohen, McSweeney claimed that the network executives "create a harmful work surroundings, encourage substance abuse."
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She additional alleged that the community exploited her alcoholism, noting that she felt "pressured" to drink while on the show. (McSweeney was a RHONY forged member for 2 seasons from 2020 to 2021. She returned for The Actual Housewives Final Women Trip season three in 2023.)
"At the moment I am taking back my reality. The reckless and diabolical approach during which the individuals on the prime drool over the mishaps and misfortunes of the women together with myself are disturbing," McSweeney wrote by way of Instagram when news of her lawsuit went public. "It's a workplace tradition where toxicity, alcoholism and pain will not be solely expected but inspired and facilitated. That's one thing I most undoubtedly did not sign up for nor would I ever endorse."
Us Weekly has reached out to Cohen, Bravo and McSweeney for remark.
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