He Made Gaga And He Wants $$$

So, is this what she meant when she sang about a Bad Romance?

Lady Gaga's ex-boyfriend, songwriter and producer Rob Fusari, says she's cheated him out of millions of dollars since he dumped her. And he's filed a $30 million lawsuit just to show how mad she made him.

See, back when GaGa was wearing lampshades on her head and singing into a hairbrush, he didn't really care, but now that she's wearing designer lampshades on her head, and singing to, and for, millions, he wants a piece of the GaGa pie.

Fusari says he helped develop Lady GaGa out of what used to be Stefani Germanotta--he even says he came up with her new name--but now she is reneging on a business deal that made him 20 percent owner of her company.

Fusari's lawyer, Robert Meloni, says Fusari was GaGa's Mama Rose; he made her: "He discovered her. It was his songs and productions and connections that got her her first deal." In 2006, Fusari, who co-wrote the Destiny's Child hit "Bootylicious," says Stefani Germanotta came looking for him when she heard he was looking for "a dynamic female rock-'n'-roller" and he didn't think much of the girl he called a "young Italian girl 'guidette'". Though he worried that he'd made a mistake, like a good songwriter, he took her in, became her boyfriend and now wants credit for everything.

He even says he came up with the name GaGa because he would play the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga" whenever she came to his studio. He says he addressed a cellphone text to Germanotta under the name 'Radio Ga Ga' and his cellphone's spell check converted 'Radio' to 'Lady.'

And Lady GaGa was born.

But, um, Rob. I think it was your cellphone, then, that came up with the name GaGa and I don't hear them filing suit. But I digress. At least until Gloria Allred takes the cellphone on as a client.

Fusari and GaGa became an "item" and they formed a company with Daddy GaGa that Fusari says is 20% his company. He ended their "involvement" in 2007 before GaGa hit it big.

Rob, honey. Let's break it down:

You knew the woman for a year, and dated only part of that time.

Your cellphone came up with her name.

She paid you $209,000 for your twelve-months of work.

Build a bridge and get over it.

The fame bus has left and you're stuck in the terminal.