Embryos Of Sofia Vergara Have "little Chance" Of Gaining Demand, They Think

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The strange lawsuit filed on behalf of two frozen embryos against their creator, actress Sofía Vergara, has "little chance" of working.

This was the opinion of experts on the subject after it was known that Nick Loeb, ex-partner of the Colombian actress, started a new legal battle against the actress in order to fulfill his dream: implant the embryos he created when he was Vergara's boyfriend in a surrogate and become a double parent.

"The Supreme Court long ago decided that for an embryo to achieve the status of a protected human being, it must be able to survive on its own," attorney Michael Stutman of the law firm Stutman Advocate Stutman told Pagesix.com & Lichtenstein, based in New York.

"With these embryos unable to do that, they may have a better chance of getting legal protection than a sofa," said the expert.

Nick Loeb, the businessman who had a torrid romance for years with Vergara, conceived the embryos with the Colombian in 2013. In 2015 the businessman filed a lawsuit against the Modern Family (ABC) star claiming the right to use the embryos to become father.

Loeb and Vergara, in better times:

That lawsuit was abandoned Tuesday by Loeb, after a judge awarded Vergara a victory by granting him the right to access information that was vital - according to Vergara's lawyers - to win the case.

Loeb established the new lawsuit on behalf of the embryos in Louisiana, calling them "Isabella" and "Emma" and claiming the right to have them brought to term so that they can claim a trust fund that Loeb established on their behalf in that southern state.

For her part, Catherine Foster, one of the attorneys who helped lift the new lawsuit against Vergara said that "there is a very strong argument for having jurisdiction" in the state. "There are always points you just have to wait and see the judge make the connection, and in this case there are strong ties in Louisiana."

Another reason why the lawsuit has been filed in that state is that according to Loeb's legal team, “both Nick and Sofia lived in Louisiana for periods of months in 2013 and 2014, which was when the embryos were created, and it was there - they assure - where eventually the couple concluded their romance”.

"There is the trust fund and that's where the fund administrator is," Foster concluded to affirm the seriousness of the case.

For his part, Mark J. Heller, Loeb's personal lawyer told Pagesix that his client was not the one who initiated the lawsuit on behalf of the embryos and that he is not covering the costs involved. The question would be, who did it then?