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Lady Gaga's boyfriend, producer, and business partner, is suing the pop star for $35 million, claiming he was pushed away after his failed romance. Lady Gaga, one of the world's hottest recording acts, won two Grammys this year for her debut album. The story starts with 20-year-old Germanotta riding a bus from Manhattan to Fusari's studio in Parsippany, New Jersey, to work on music in the spring of 2006. While Fusari thought Germanotta's songs were brilliant, they lacked commercial appeal, the suit said. Fusari takes credit for convincing her "to abandon rock riffs and add dance beats. He demonstrated how the sound of a drum machine would not hurt the integrity of her music." The suit claims Fusari created her stage name by accident. A text message intended to read "Radio Ga Ga," named after the Queen song, was changed by spell check on his cell phone to "Lady Ga Ga," it said. "Germanotta loved it and 'Lady Gaga' was born." Their romance grew as they were "working intensely in such close emotional quarters," it said. Germanotta and her father soon signed a contract with Fusari giving him a 20 percent share of her career, the suit said. The romance declined after Lady Gaga gained and then lost a record deal with Island Def Jam, it said. "Fusari wanted to return their relationship to a purely professional level, so in January 2007, he ended their romantic involvement." After Lady Gaga got a new recording contract in May 2007 with Interscope, she stopped answering Fusari's phone calls, it said. Still, he co-wrote and produced four songs on Lady Gaga's debut album "The Fame," including the hit "Paparazzi." I think that the issue is dumb like who cares. First off Lady Ga Ga needs a good lawyer because like Fusari was all her information and basically has alot to blackmail her with. I think that Fusari is a punk that got dump and now just want mroe money and this almost seems as it is more personal then it is business and he is clearly lying because why would he sue her for just dumping him. He is a bum.