Former producer filed $35 mln suit against Lady Gaga

Category Entertainment | Friday, March 19th, 2010

BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhuanet) — Lady Gaga was sued 35 mln U.S. dollars by her former producer, who claimed the pop star squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he helped her transform to be what she is today, according to media reports Friday.

Rob Fusari, the songwriter and music producer, also the star’s previous boyfriend, filed on Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court.

Fusari contended in his lawsuit that he played a key role in transforming the young lady into the pop icon now. But when their romance ended, he was cut out of her record deal and failed to be paid royalties on subsequent music sales.

“All business is personal,” said the lawsuit. “When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory so that when one crashes they all burn. That is what happened here.”

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