Lady Gaga Introduces New Pup 3 Years After Dognapping Case Involving Her French Bulldogs

Mar. 15, 2025

Lady Gaga poses with new dog.Photo:Lady Gaga/TikTok

Lady Gaga/TikTok

Lady Gagahas added a new furry friend to her family.

The multi-hyphenate, 38, introduced the new addition ina TikTok videoon Wednesday, Aug. 21, set to her new song withBruno Mars, “Die with a Smile.”

She donned long black hair, blue eyeshadow and bright red lips in the captionless video as she lip-synced to the song while holding the black French Bulldog in her lap.

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Gaga’s video came three years after the February 2021 robbery and dognapping incident in which her dog walker wasshot and critically injured. Two French bulldogs she owned —  Koji and Gustav — were also stolen. The incident occurred at night on Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood.

A womanreturned the dogs “safe"to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station two days after the incident.

In April 2021, five suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting and dognapping. One of the suspects, James Howard Jackson,pled no contestto attempted murder with great bodily injury and was sentenced to 21 years in prison as part of a plea deal.

Lady Gaga with dogs.Lady Gaga/Instagram

TheA Star Is Bornstar’s dog walkerRyan Fischerspoke toCBS Mornings’co-hostGayle Kingin September 2021 months after the attack.

“I was scared, I was in pain. I had a feeling, when they came up [and] pulled the gun on me that I was going to end up being shot, cause in my mind I was like, ‘There’s no way that I’m not going to fight for these dogs,’ " he said.

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“She’s helped me so much,” Fischer said of Gaga. “She’s been a friend for me and after I was attacked, my family was flown out and I had trauma therapists flown to me and I stayed at her house for months while friends comforted me and security was around me.”

Some of Lady Gaga’s dogs.Lady Gaga/Instagram

The new canine addition to the “Born This Way” singer’s family comes about a month after she revealed she was engaged to her long-time partner, entrepreneur and tech investorMichael Polansky.

source: people.com