The approved 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 trying 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 ultimate month, alleged that Cohen likes to snort cocaine with a couple of 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 approved workforce seen by Internet web page Six, “Mr. Cohen not at all used cocaine with any strong member on any ‘Precise Housewives’ current or with another Bravo employee.”
McSweeney’s lawsuit claims that Cohen, 55 — who may also be authorities producer of “RHONY” and its spinoff, “The Precise Housewives Last Girls Journey” — “engages in cocaine use with Housewives that he employs” and that “Cohen’s proclivity for cocaine utilization alongside together with his employees is well-known all by means of 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 looking for help in a cynical attempt 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 inside the fiery letter that McSweeney’s go properly with is “tormented by false, offensive, and defamatory statements” about Cohen, and tells her approved workforce, “we demand that you just immediately retract and withdraw all allegations relating to Mr. Cohen’s purported ‘cocaine use.’”
Addressing McSweeney’s lawyer, the letter gives: “The allegations had been clearly made up by you and/or your shopper to realize most tabloid clickbait price inside the hopes of weaponizing these false allegations—along with totally different lies that permeate the grievance—as leverage to drive an unjustified settlement. It received’t. In its place, this conduct solely subjects you and your shopper to unbiased and substantial approved publicity.”
The letter gives that, “An allegation of drug use inside the workplace is a crucial value,” and as well as claims that, “your trigger for inventing the false allegations inside 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 gives, “these allegations are missing every component, along with the who, the place, and when.”
Cohen’s workforce gives inside 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 stunning. Mr. Cohen is accustomed to using his vitality inside the media to scare and intimidate people like Ms. McSweeney so that they received’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 type of retaliation that this lawsuit was launched to take care of and solely is extra proof for Ms. McSweeney.”
She added, “We don’t intend to litigate this matter inside the press, and if Mr. Cohen must take care of 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 approved train involving Cohen, Bravo and quite a few producers.
Former “Precise Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville has moreover despatched a approved 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, nevertheless 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: Last Girls Journey” — has filed go properly with in opposition to Cohen and Bravo, claiming that they plied Glanville with alcohol inside 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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