He is Lady GaGa’s former boyfriend, a producer and her erstwhile business partner. Well, songwriter-producer Rob Fusari has decided to sue Lady GaGa for $35 million, saying that he was ditched by the pop star after she became famous.
Fusari has also accused Stefani Germanotta a.k.a "Lady GaGa" of using his talent of dance beats to make her own commercial songs a big hit.
Earlier, this year Lady GaGa did win two Grammys for her debut album.
Meanwhile, to give the case a more dramatic feeling Fusari's lawyer, Robert Meloni, used a dialogue from William Congreve's tragic play "The Mourning Bride."
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," Meloni said.
According to the law suit that has been filed Lady GaGa was scornful rather than remorseful when she ended her relationship with Fusari.
"All business is personal. 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," the suit said.
All this started way back in 2006 when, a 20-year-old Germanotta entered Fusari's studio in New Jersey to work on a music album.
"Fusari was expecting someone a little more grunge-rocker than the young Italian girl 'guidette' that arrived at his doorstep and was worried that he had made a mistake," the court papers said.
"Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano and within seconds; he realized that Germanotta had star potential. The trick would be coaxing it out of her."
“While Fusari thought Germanotta's songs were brilliant, they lacked commercial appeal,” the suit said.
"He pushed her to explore different musical genres," it said. "Over the course of the next several months, Germanotta commuted from New York to Jersey seven days a week, radically reshaping her approach. They put their focus on writing music and finding a sound for her."
Meanwhile, Fusari has taken all the credit for her change of genre in music that Lady Gaga used to follow.
He says that it was him who convinced her to abandon rock riffs and add dance beats. Fusari even claims that the name was also his creation. He used to listen to "Radio Ga Ga and via that the name "Lady Ga Ga," cropped up.
The lawsuit adds that Fusari and Germanotta’s romance increased over the next few years as they used to work in close quarters.
Meanwhile, Germanotta and her father inked a deal with Fusari as 20 percent share was decided to be given to him of the profits that she makes.
However, the love diminished as Lady Gaga gained popularity. The final nail in the coffin was put when she signed a deal with Island Def Jam.
"The couple was now constantly bickering as Germanotta became more and more verbally abusive towards Fusari," the suit said.
"Fusari wanted to return their relationship to a purely professional level, so in January 2007, he ended their romantic involvement."
It should be noticed that Fusari co-wrote and produced four songs of her debut album "The Fame," including the chart-buster "Paparazzi."
