Sofia Vergara Sued For Her Frozen Embryos

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

The legal dispute between Sofía Vergara and her ex-partner, Nick Loeb, about the future of frozen embryos seems to have no end. The new twist in the dispute is the filing of a new lawsuit against the actress in which the plaintiffs are the embryos themselves in dispute.

According to the New York Post, Loeb filed the new lawsuit in a Louisiana court - a state known for its pro-life policies - claiming the embryos' right to life in order to achieve their greatest desire: that they both be implanted in a womb. rent to become a father.

In the papers filed this Tuesday, the "plaintiffs" are identified as Emma and Isabella, the name given to the embryos. According to the Post, Loeb's name does not appear in the documents, but the name of a James Carbonnet, who is identified as the "trustee" of the embryos.

The complaint maintains that Emma and Isabella, not yet born, have been deprived of their due inheritance and that it was created in a trust fund in their name in Louisiana. If successful with the new lawsuit, Loeb could obtain sole custody of the babies.

Loeb sued Vergara in April 2015 for the right to use the two embryos that were frozen when they were a couple. A few days after receiving the demand, Vergara spoke about it with considerable spite.

"A child needs a mother and a loving relationship with parents who get along well, who do not hate each other … children need parents," said Vergara at the time on the subject.

The businessman abandoned that complaint a week ago after the Colombian scored a victory when a judge granted her the right to obtain information that she and her team of lawyers considered vital in the case, which was to identify two former ex-partners who were they had aborted after becoming pregnant with Loeb.

Vergara had requested this information through lawyers after Loeb, 41, raised his position in an opinion article published by The New York Times, in which he stated that he wanted to implant the embryos in a surrogate belly and thus Becoming a single father and incidentally confessed that two girlfriends of his had aborted a while ago, causing his fatherly frustration.

According to the Post, in the new complaint, a conversation of the couple is reproduced through text messages about the embryos shortly before their rupture in May 2013.

"We cannot keep 4 lives frozen forever, or kill them, we will go to hell," Loeb was quoted as saying.

"We will go to hell anyway," Vergara would have replied.