The licensed battle behind the scenes at Bravo is getting as heated as a “Precise Housewives” reunion.
Andy Cohen is wanting former “Precise Housewives of New York Metropolis” star Leah McSweeney’s bombshell lawsuit in opposition to him a “shakedown,” and claims that McSweeney is attempting to “drive an unjustified settlement” with the Bravo host.
Nevertheless McSweeney’s attorneys knowledgeable Internet web page Six that his response is solely an attempt to “scare and intimidate” alleged victims like McSweeney into silence.
McSweeney’s go properly with, filed late remaining month, alleged that Cohen likes to snort cocaine with just a few of the “Housewives” stars, and that he’s part of a bunch of individuals that attempted to make use of her substance factors and psychological properly being struggles in a cynical attempt to drive up rankings.
Nevertheless Cohen’s lawyer calls the cocaine allegations “categorically false,” and writes in a letter to McSweeney’s licensed workforce seen by Internet web page Six, “Mr. Cohen in no way used cocaine with any strong member on any ‘Precise Housewives’ current or with another Bravo employee.”
McSweeney’s lawsuit claims that Cohen, 55 — who will also be authorities producer of “RHONY” and its spinoff, “The Precise Housewives Remaining Girls Journey” — “engages in cocaine use with Housewives that he employs” and that “Cohen’s proclivity for cocaine utilization alongside along with his staff is well-known all via the ‘Precise Housewives’ franchise.”
The very fact star, 41, who’s in restoration, made the allegations about Cohen and cocaine as part of her case alleging that the group is constructed on a practice that “thrives off drug and alcohol use,” and that Bravo preyed on her alcohol disadvantage by each intentionally exacerbating it, or by stopping her from trying to find help in a cynical strive to boost its private viewership. She’s moreover suing Bravo, Shed Media — a producing agency that makes “RHONY” and “RHUGT” — and Warner Media, which owns Shed.
Cohen’s lawyer, Orin Snyder of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, says throughout the fiery letter that McSweeney’s go properly with is “suffering from false, offensive, and defamatory statements” about Cohen, and tells her licensed workforce, “we demand that you just immediately retract and withdraw all allegations concerning Mr. Cohen’s purported ‘cocaine use.’”
Addressing McSweeney’s lawyer, the letter offers: “The allegations had been clearly made up by you and/or your shopper to achieve most tabloid clickbait price throughout the hopes of weaponizing these false allegations—along with completely different lies that permeate the grievance—as leverage to drive an unjustified settlement. It gained’t. In its place, this conduct solely matters you and your shopper to unbiased and substantial licensed publicity.”
The letter offers that, “An allegation of drug use throughout the workplace is a vital value,” and as well as claims that, “your trigger for inventing the false allegations throughout the first place — to create a media frenzy and stress in an attempt to drive a settlement.”
The letter moreover accuses McSweeney’s go properly with of unfairly attempting to gin up media safety, and offers, “these allegations are missing every component, along with the who, the place, and when.”
Cohen’s workforce offers throughout the missive: “We demand that you just problem a direct public retraction and apologize to Mr. Cohen. Day-after-day you fail to take motion solely will improve the damages suffered by Mr. Cohen.” Loads of Bravo stars have caught up for him on social media and in interviews following the lawsuit.
McSweeney’s lawyer, Sarah M. Matz, of Adelman Matz P.C., knowledgeable us in response:
“That Andy Cohen had his counsel and PR brokers write a threatening letter to offer to the press is hardly surprising. Mr. Cohen is accustomed to using his vitality throughout the media to scare and intimidate people like Ms. McSweeney so that they gained’t talk out. Mr. Cohen’s attempt to discredit and intimidate Ms. McSweeney to discourage her from partaking in legally protected train in Courtroom is exactly the sort of retaliation that this lawsuit was launched to cope with and solely is extra proof for Ms. McSweeney.”
She added, “We don’t intend to litigate this matter throughout the press, and if Mr. Cohen must cope with Ms. McSweeney’s claims, we advise he obtain this in Courtroom, not in a letter for the press.”
This latest skirmish comes amid a flurry of licensed train involving Cohen, Bravo and quite a few producers.
Former “Precise Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville has moreover despatched a licensed letter claiming that Cohen sexually harassed her by sending her a video whereby he acknowledged he was planning to have intercourse with a third Bravo star whereas occupied with Glanville and welcoming her to have a look at on FaceTime.
Cohen has acknowledged that the remarks had been made in jest, nonetheless apologized, acknowledging that the remarks had been inappropriate.
Within the meantime, “Precise Housewives of New Jersey” star Caroline Manzo — who has claimed that Glanville sexually harassed her whereas filming “Precise Housewives: Remaining Girls Journey” — has filed go properly with in opposition to Cohen and Bravo, claiming that they plied Glanville with alcohol throughout the hopes that she would sexually pursue Manzo.
(Glanville has strenuously denied wrongdoing, whereas Bravo and Cohen haven’t responded to the claims).
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