Lady Gaga will not have to pay a $500,000 reward to anyone who molested her French bulldog.

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A Los Angeles County judge ruled Monday that singer Lady Gaga will not have to pay the $500,000 reward she was promised for the safe return of her French bulldog after a 2021 molestation incident.

The judge’s ruling concluded that Jennifer McBride, one of the suspects in the 2021 incident that left Gaga’s dog with gunshot wounds, had “unclean hands,” and as a result McBride was “not entitled” to the reward money.

“Although plaintiff claims her motive was to protect the bulldogs (and also collect $500,000), this alleged motive does not negate her guilt on the charge because she admitted receiving the bulldogs knowing they were stolen property,” the ruling said.

After being formally charged in the harassment case in April 2021, McBride filed a lawsuit in 2022 against Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, alleging that the singer violated a contract stipulating that the bonus money would be given “no questions asked” about the return. From her dogs.

Fraud by false promise and fraud by misrepresentation were also included in the suit as grounds for damages.

McBride is currently on probation for two years after pleading guilty to receiving stolen property worth more than $950, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

It was at the beginning Accused with one count of accessory after the fact and receiving stolen property, but the accessory after the fact charge was dismissed concurrently as part of the plea deal.

CNN has reached out to McBride and Gaga’s attorney for comment.