Lady GaGa’s Ex-Boyfriend/Producer Rob Fusari Sues For $30.5 Million

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Looks like a bad romance is coming back to bite Lady Gaga.

Rob Fusari, a songwriter and producer responsible for helping the pop star launch her incredible career, is suing Gaga for $30.5 million for cutting him out — personally and financially — when she made it big.

In the lawsuit, Fusari claims after being introduced to Gaga in March of 2006 — then performing under her birth name, Stefani Germanotta — he helped Gaga become the daring star the world now knows and loves. Their relationship became romantic as they worked together to launch the Gaga monster, creating a professional partnership called Team Love Child LLC.

Fusari claims he got Gaga to Interscope Records, the label that would finally release her debut album, The Fame, after being dropped and rejected by other labels. In a 2008 interview, Gaga told NeonLimelight.com Fusari sent her music to his friend Vincent Herbert at the label, but didn’t go into how she met the producer.

Fusari admits to receiving around $611,000 in checks, but says it does not total what he is owed in song royalties (he co-wrote The Fame cuts “Beautiful Dirty Rich” and “Paparazzi,” among others) or merchandising.

Fusari has been very vocal about the stars who have done him wrong lately. In a recent interview with Billboard.com, he lashed out at Gaga’s “Telephone” duet partner Beyonce for claiming credit for putting Destiny’s Child‘s 2001 hit “Bootylicious” together, saying it was his brainchild.