Lady Gaga, producer withdraw dueling NY lawsuits

[September 11, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Lady Gaga has resolved her legal wrangle in New York with a music producer who says he launched her career and has sued her for $30.5 million.

Court papers filed this week show the Grammy Award-winning pop star and songwriter-producer Rob Fusari have withdrawn the lawsuits they filed against each other in March.

It's unclear whether they made any monetary deal. Lawyers for both sides and a Gaga spokesman didn't immediately respond to phone and e-mail messages Friday.

Fusari had said the star shoehorned 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.

Lady Gaga's lawyers have said Fusari was just an agent and got the then-inexperienced singer to sign an unfair agreement in 2006.

[Associated Press]

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