New York Post

Losing Loeb blames H’wood

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NICK Loeb lost a last-gasp legal effort this week in his case against former fiancée Sofía Vergara over the exes’ frozen embryos.

Loeb filed objections to a recent ruling by a Los Angeles judge that granted Vergara a permanent injunction banning him from bringing the embryos to term without Vergara’s “explicit written consent.” A source told us, “The court overruled all of [Loeb’s] final objections.”

In a statement, Loeb blasted the judge and plugged his new movie: “The judge was clearly influenced by Hollywood, which is a pattern I expose in my upcoming film ‘Roe v. Wade.’ ” Apparently referring to the embryos, he also said: “It’s sad that Sofía, a devout Catholic,

would intentiona­lly create babies just to kill them.”

A lawyer for Vergara said in 2015 that she “has never wanted to destroy her embryos . . . She has always maintained that they be kept frozen, a fact of which Loeb and his counsel have always been aware, despite Loeb’s statements to the contrary.”

Internet reports have said Vergara was born into a Catholic family in Colombia, but she hasn’t widely spoken about her religion or being devout. Her rep did not comment.

Loeb and Vergara split in 2014, but he then launched a years-long legal battle in multiple states over two frozen embryos from the couple’s 2013 IVF treatments. He has sought custody to bring them to term, and even gave the embryos names in court papers.

But he has now lost cases in California and Louisiana — where an appeals court called his case a “mockery” of the local legal system.

Loeb wrote, directed and stars in “Roe v. Wade,” which agitates against the landmark abortion case. The cast includes Jon Voight, Stacey Dash, Jamie Kennedy and Joey Lawrence, and it premiered during the recent Conservati­ve Political Action Conference.

Vergara has been married to Joe Manganiell­o since 2015. Loeb has a daughter with a girlfriend who lives in Europe.

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