Lady Gaga Sued by Ex-Boyfriend

Talk about a bad romance. Lady Gaga is being sued for $30 million by her ex-boyfriend and former producer, Rob Fusari, who claims he was pushed away when the pop star struck it rich, according to the New York Daily News.

"It's an age-old story in the music business," his attorney, Robert Meloni, told the paper. "You become famous and you turn on the person who discovered you."

Fusari is seeking a 20 percent cut from Gaga's two companies, Team Love Child and Mermaid Music, claimed they previously entered into a contract together in 2006, the year they first met. He contends that he transformed Stefani Germanotta into "Lady Gaga" and radically changed her rock riffs into dance beats, ultimately leading to her commercial success. They were introduced in March 2006 by a singer who knew Fusari was looking for a female rocker with "garage band chops."

"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 reads. "Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano and within seconds realized that Germanotta had star potential."

Prior to their introduction, the music man had enjoyed success on such songs as Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" and Destiny Child's "Bootylicious." He argues that he co-wrote several songs on Lady Gaga's debut album The Fame, including the hit "Paparazzi."

The pair's relationship later turned romantic, but Fusari contends that Gaga was a scorned woman when he ended their romance in January 2007.

"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."