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Gaga 的伯樂／製作人／前男友／命名者 Rob Fusari 控告 Gaga
─或許該說是告 Gaga 公司吧？總之是錢事談不攏，Fusari 認
為 Gaga 公司沒照約定給他分紅，報導指出是指百分之二十的歌
曲版稅，及其他收益，於是求償超過三千萬鎂、不同報導指是三
千五百萬鎂，而 Fusari 是不滿於之前收到的六十餘萬美金。
我之前在本板貼的一篇翻譯報導中(#1BS01_Lr)，有詳述 Fusari
挖掘 Gaga 的經過，有興趣可以看看。那篇倒是沒提到 Fusari
曾與 Gaga 交往過，這是訴訟文中提的。
Fusari 與 Gaga 共同創作了 "Paparazzi" "Beautiful, Dirty,
Rich," "Brown Eyes" 等歌曲，Gaga 一直以來也都不斷提到
Fusari 幫她很多，但從各新聞中提到的 Fusari 方態度，雙方
目前關係應該很難好到哪去，Gaga 這邊目前沒有回應。
Bad Romance！:p
AP: http://0rz.tw/akWfE
NY DAILY: http://0rz.tw/Om1ap
Producer files $35M suit against Lady Gaga in NYC
By JENNIFER PELTZ (AP) – 9 hours ago
NEW YORK — A songwriter and music producer who claims he
helped launch pop star Lady Gaga says she squeezed him out
of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her
songs, came up with her stage name and helped get her
record deal.
Rob Fusari filed a $35 million lawsuit against the Grammy
Award-winning pop star, saying his protege and former
girlfriend ditched him as her career soared.
"All business is personal," said the lawsuit, filed
Wednesday in a Manhattan state court.
Lady Gaga's spokesman, Dave Tomberlin, didn't immediately
respond to an e-mail sent Thursday by The Associated Press.
Fusari had credits on such hits as Will Smith's "Wild, Wild
West" and Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" when a friend
steered the piano-playing singer — then known by her real
name, Stefani Germanotta — to him in March 2006, according
to his lawsuit.
Though he initially dismissed her, he realized she had star
potential after hearing her play in his Livingston, N.J.,
studio, the suit said. He spent the next several months
working with her every day and "radically reshaping her
approach," persuading her to drop rock riffs for dance
beats, it said.
As they co-wrote songs such as "Paparazzi" and "Beautiful,
Dirty, Rich," which would appear on her debut album, "The
Fame," he transformed Germanotta into Lady Gaga, a name
adapted from Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," the lawsuit said.
In a 2009 interview with the AP, Lady Gaga said her
"realization of Gaga was five years ago, but Gaga's always
been who I am."
"I was Gaga from the time that I was 19 through my first
record deal," the 23-year-old said of her over-the-top,
avant-garde style, which has captured the imaginations of
millions of fans. "I always dressed like that before people
knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way ... I stuck out
like a sore thumb."
According to the lawsuit, Lady Gaga and Fusari's
relationship turned romantic and became a business
partnership in May 2006, when they created a joint venture
called Team Love Child LLC to promote her career. Fusari's
share was 20 percent, it said.
Fusari — whose account of his role in the
multiplatinum-selling artist's early career has been told
in interviews — says he introduced Lady Gaga to a record
executive who ultimately shepherded her to Interscope
Records, which released "The Fame" in 2008. The album has
sold more than 3 million copies in the United States;
Fusari has a producing credit.
But the lawsuit says their personal and business
relationship had soured by then and he has been denied a 20
percent share of song royalties, 15 percent of
merchandising revenue and other money he's owed. He
acknowledges getting checks for about $611,000 but says
that isn't his full share.
Lady Gaga won two Grammys in January: best dance recording,
for "Poker Face," and best electronic/dance album, for "The
Fame."
AP Music Writer Nekesa Moody and AP Writer Mesfin Fekadu in
New York contributed to this report.
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Producer, alleged ex-lover who 'discovered' and named Lady
Gaga sues her company for $30 million
BY Jose Martinez
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The producer who claims credit for transforming a Manhattan
"guidette" into Lady Gaga is suing to get a chunk of "The
Fame" singer's fortune.
Ex-lover Rob Fusari contends two companies owned by the
mega-star owe him more than $30 million after he came up
with the Lady Gaga name and co-wrote her hits "Paparazzi"
and "Disco Heaven."
"It's an age-old story in the music business," said Robert
Meloni, a lawyer for Fusari. "You become famous and you
turn on the person who discovered you."
The wild-styled singer, whose real name is Stefani
Germanotta, was introduced to Fusari in March 2006 by a
singer who knew he was looking for a female rocker with
"garage band chops."
Wendy Starland put Germanotta on the phone with Fusari
after seeing her perform at The Cutting Room because she
fit his vision for "an all-girl version of The Strokes,"
the suit says.
Within a day, Germanotta was on a bus from the Port
Authority terminal to Fusari's 150 Studios in Parsippany,
N.J.
"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
suit says.
"Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the
studio piano and within seconds realized that Germanotta
had star potential. The trick would be coaxing it out of
her."
The producer, who collaborated with Destiny's Child on
"Bootylicious" and with Will Smith on "Wild Wild," contends
he reshaped Germanotta's song-writing skills and convinced
her to add dance beats to her songs.
He also came up with the unique Lady Gaga name after
playing Queen's "Radio Gaga" for her daily when she entered
the studio.
"One day when Fusari addressed a cell phone text to
Germanotta under the moniker 'Radio Gaga' his cell phone's
spell check converted 'Radio' to 'Lady'," the suit says.
"Germanotta loved it and 'Lady Gaga' was born."
Fusari is seeking a 20% cut from a 2006 contract he says he
signed with Gaga's Team Love Child and Mermaid Music.
"Would she have found another Rob Fusari? Maybe," Meloni
said. "Would she just have gone on to playing in small
clubs? Maybe. But the fact is that he brought her to a
certain level."
A representative for Lady Gaga, a dropout from NYU's Tisch
School of the Arts, declined comment.
Fusari and Germanotta were at one time romantically linked,
but broke up in January 2007, the suit says.
In the introduction to the court papers, Fusari casts Lady
Gaga as "a woman scorned."
"All business is personal," the suit says. "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.
This is what happened here."
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