Frozen Embryo Drama Against Sofia Vergara Takes New Turn

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

The surprising demand that Colombian actress Sofía Vergara received a few days ago on behalf of two frozen embryos that she procreated with her ex-partner, businessman Nick Loeb, has taken a new turn.

According to a Pagesix.com report, attorneys in the case are formally requesting that the two embryos be sent from California - where they are currently located - to the state of Louisiana, where the lawsuit was established and the monetary fund Loeb established for the embryos, who have been called " Emma " and " Isabella ".

The petition, said the source, would help move the case in Loeb's favor, since the state of Louisiana is the only one in the American Union that grants legal rights to embryos, instead of considering them as objects of parental property.

The embryos are currently in the ART reproductive center in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been in a cryogenic state since 2013, after they were created by Vergara and Loeb through artificial insemination.

Sofía Vergara and Nick Loeb, in better times, during a car race in New York, in 2013.

In the original lawsuit of the embryos vs. Vergara lists James Charbonett's name as "trustee" of the case. If Vergara or the embryo center refuses to send the zygotes to Louisiana, then Charbonett could take the lawsuit to federal court to demand the transfer.

This is Loeb's second lawsuit against the star of Modern Family (ABC), because after his breakup he filed a legal complaint against him in 2015 to demand his right to implant the embryos in a surrogate. The lawsuit was recently dissolved with the case ruling in favor of the Colombian actress.

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, Loeb could obtain sole custody of the babies.