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 $30.5 million lawsuit against the Grammy Award-winning performer, 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 Parsippany, 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 then 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 Universal Music Group’sInterscope 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.

(Read more about producer Rob Fusari’s rise to fame thanks to co-writing a couple hits for Destiny’s Child and his relationship with Lady Gaga in a past interview with Billboard here.)

Stefani has quite a bit of explaining to do..

So she’s always been on the whole as she’s stated  ”I always dressed like that before people knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way … I stuck out like a sore thumb.” Did it ever occur to anyone that.. she hasn’t always been the way that she is?

All this talk about ‘I’ve always felt like a freak..’ it’s all an act? I highly doubt she’s always been ‘different’. I always had that feeling. Which would explain this picture below..

Someone explain this seemingly “normal” photograph from high school of a Stefani ‘I’ve always been different’ Germanotti, I mean Lady Gaga.  With blonde hair wearing Abercrombie and Converse sneakers. She wasn’t any different from the average, typical teenage girl! ’Always dressed like that..’ (that being crazy/over the top costumes/wigs/etc.) My ass.

What I’ve gotten out of her in the past however long she’s been on the scene is (one of her messages basically states) ‘I was never accepted by anyone. I stood out from everyone around me. Stay true to yourself..’.. has she really.. truly stayed true to her self? Ya’ll (Haus Of Gaga/monsters/society) are totally being duped!

:waits for the backlash against me from her millions of adoring monsters that make up the Haus of Gaga:

(Ay! I’m just stating the facts..or at least what seem to be them. Don’t kill the messenger.)

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(This is Where The JewZSQueeze Steps in)

Ladies and Gentelman of the Jewry, I have been saying this for months: GAGA is an ACT. Like Marilyn Manson, or Andy Kaufman. However, entertainers can’t live without one thing: FANS/AUDIENCE. All of you “monsters”…are being brainwashed.  This bitch was not always awkward…she was a normal fucking teenager named STEPHANIE. My mom is named Stephanie…you didn’t see her dressing like a fucking cuntrag. The point is GaGa should admit that while she is a very talented singer/songwriter/performer, she is an entertainer at the end of the day. You think she sleeps in that garbage? Nah, she wears PJs just like you and I. Even Marilyn Manson takes off the lipstick before bed. I mean, really, who wants make-up all over their bed sheets? 

Look, I like this girl’s music. I listen to it in my car. But if you don’t realize all of it: the costumes, the drama, the CD’s and shit…that it’s an ACT, than you are really really in need of a reality check.

You can read how I basically predicted this windfall of information, linking GaGa to Marilyn Manson here