Sofía Vergara is accusing her ex Nick Loeb of not genuinely wanting to be a father — and claims he is only battling for their frozen embryos because she is a star.
Vergara is fighting back after Loeb — who says he is pro-life and has launched a legal bid to implant in a surrogate two frozen embryos he created with Vergara — refused to name two ex-girlfriends who underwent abortions around 20 years ago.
Her legal team wants to quiz the two women about Loeb’s motives, but he told Page Six, “I’d rather go to jail than reveal the names . . . we have to protect a woman’s right to privacy.”
Vergara’s attorney Fred Silberberg told Page Six, “Oddly, Loeb wants us to believe that he supports a woman’s right to privacy and to make a choice concerning reproduction. However, he seems to believe that his celebrity ex-fiancée, Sofía Vergara, does not have those same rights, especially if it means giving him more public exposure.”
Vergara and Loeb have a written agreement that neither party would be able to take any action regarding the embryos without the other’s consent.
Silberberg continued, “Loeb, while claiming to be in support of the ‘right to life,’ disclosed that he had gotten two different women pregnant prior to his relationship with Vergara and that the pregnancies were terminated.”
Loeb, now 41, says the terminations happened when he was 19 and in his early 20s. Loeb fears his exes’ names could become public due to the high-profile nature of the case. But Silberberg said the women’s identities are protected by a confidentiality order.
He added, “As Vergara’s counsel, I wish to inquire of them as it directly relates to Loeb’s contentions that his beliefs in the ‘right to life’ are the bases for his asking the court to allow him to go against the written document he signed, and attempt to have the pre-embryos implanted into a surrogate over Vergara’s objections. Loeb’s actions prior to his relationship with Vergara seem contradictory to the claims he is making in this lawsuit and beg the question as to why is it that he finds it important to bring the pre-embryos created with Vergara, a public figure, to term but not the actual embryos created previously with two different women?”