Lady Gaga’s ex-boyfriend (who also happens to be her former producer and business partner) has filed a $30.5 million lawsuit against her leaving him out in the cold after he essentially made her famous.

Rob Fusari claimed in the suit that when he and Stefani first began working together, she and her father signed a contract giving him a 20% cut of her earnings.

According to him, he was the one responsible for transforming Stefani Germanotta into Lady Gaga by convincing her to abandon her indie rock roots for more catchy dance beats. He also insisted in court documents that he was responsible for the name Lady Gaga, which came up after the spell check on his phone changed the words “Radio Ga Ga” into “Lady Ga Ga” on a text that he had sent to her.

The pair began dating soon after they began working together, but according to Rob, Stefani turned abusive when a deal with Island Def Jam fell through, prompting him to end the relationship. He claimed that Stefani stopped returning his phone calls when she signed a contract with Interscope in May 2007.

Rob is the co-writer and producer for four songs on The Fame, including the hit Paparazzi.

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Kid Rock was ordered yesterday to pay $35,000 to three men who he and three members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe picked a fight with outside of a L.A. hotel in 2006.

The men filed the lawsuit last year, demanding $15 million in damages. A jury sided with the plaintiffs yesterday, but Rock was only ordered to pay $35K for all three men to divide amongst themselves. According to TMZ, the men were not awarded attorneys fees, meaning they probably didn’t get to pocket much of anything in the end.

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Esquire magazine somehow got their hands on the brainstorming notes for the E*Trade commercial that Lindsay Lohan is currently suing them for, and it looks like she might just have a case (maybe).

The notes reveal that the ad makers, Grey Group originally named Lindsay’s character Deborah, but then changed the baby’s name to Lindsay later on. When trying to decide what to call Lindsay, some choices they had written included “gutter hound”, “fish face”, “rug burn”, and “skanky cake”. They finally settled on “milkaholic”.

Lindsay’s mom Dina called the notes “horrific” and “disgusting”, adding “Oh my goodness, I can’t even read this”. Lindsay and mommy Dina are now demanding $100 million in damages.

Photo of the notes here.

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Nicolas Cage has just added Rolls Royce to the list of companies suing him for money that he doesn’t have.

According to the company, Nicolas signed a couple of 60-month leases for two different Rolls Royce classics back in 2007, but then returned them and stopped making his combined payments of $11,293.73 in 2009. They’re now suing Nic for $104,490 for one car, and $137,077 for the other because they were forced to sell the cars wholesale after he turned them in. Nic’s legal team is now working to negotiate a settlement with the company.

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Lindsay Lohan’s mom Dina is speaking out about her daughter’s latest lawsuit filed against E*Trade for using the name “Lindsay” in their new baby commercial. Dina told the New York Post today that Lindsay called her crying, saying, ‘Mommy, help me. This is wrong. How can they do this?’ Dina added,

They’re little babies doing this, mocking another child who’s just trying to survive Hollywood, basically. Everyone knows Lindsay, like Cher or Madonna.

Dina also called the company “horrible” and “mean”, and said, “I’m just basically glad I took a stand. I’m not going to let them do this to us anymore”.

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Lindsay Lohan apparently thinks there are no other drunk Lindsays in the world (that, plus she’s really broke). She’s suing E*Trade for giving a “milkaholic” baby in their commercial the name “Lindsay”. Her lawyer released a statement regarding the lawsuit saying,

Many celebrities are known by one name only, and E-Trade is using that knowledge to profit. They used the name Lindsay. They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan.

Lindsay is asking for $100 million in damages. She also wants the ad pulled off the air.

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It looks like Charles Pearson - the man arrested yesterday for threatening to feed Dr. Drew’s kids to his wife was way crazier than we all first thought.

Apparently, Charles filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court last month, suing Dr. Drew for $2,500 for medical malpractice, claiming that the doctor “performed illegal surgery” on him, and tampered with his implants (not sure what implants he was referring to). Charles also accused Dr. Drew of being in the KKK and harassing him with his LAPD connections. A court date for that suit was set for March 8th. No word yet on whether or not it’s still on.

Update: That’s Charles Pearson’s mugshot, above. He’s currently being held on $150,000 bail.

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Debbie Rowe has just won a defamation suit against a woman named Rebecca White, who she sued in July for claiming on Extra that she didn’t care about her kids with Michael Jackson, and that she was just trying to suck money from the Jackson family.

Debbie insisted that she suffered emotional distress after the interview aired. Rebecca chose to ignore the suit, so a default judgment was made today and Debbie was awarded $27,000 in damages.

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Rihanna’s personal trainer, Cindy Percival has filed a lawsuit against the singer for failing to pay her $26,144.14 in wages.

Cindy claimed in court documents that she had traveled around the world with Rihanna for a few weeks between September and October of last year.

She’s suing Rihanna for $1,500 per day of work, and $2644.14 in travel expenses.

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Spice Girl Mel B. is being sued by a real estate appraiser named Amado Aguirre, who alleges that Mel sent her husband Stephen Belafonte and another man after him while he was photographing their house to appraise the neighborhood.

Amado, who apparently didn’t know that the home he was snapping was Mel’s, was taking photos from his vehicle when Stephan and the other employee reached into his car and grabbed his camera. Amado claims that he was seriously injured during the incident. No word yet on how much he wants for his pain.

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A New York woman named Lastonia Levinston has just filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent, accusing him of releasing her homemade sex tape on his website as a joke last year.

According to the lady, 50 somehow got his hands on a sex tape that she made with a boyfriend in 2008. He then edited himself narrating the action while wearing a wig and a fluffy blue robe, and uploaded it to his website for public ridicule.

No word on how much she wants in damages.

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Hulk Hogan and his son Nick have just settled a lawsuit filed against them by the family of John Graziano, who was injured in Nick’s 2007 car accident.

Nick’s mother Linda settled a separate suit filed against her by the family just last month.

The terms of both settlements will remain under wraps.

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TLC and Jon Gosselin have finally come to some sort of agreement and settled their lawsuits against one another.

TLC originally sued Jon for violating his contract with them last year by pulling his children from their TV show, and bad mouthing the network to the media. Jon counter sued shortly after, accusing the network of ruining his reputation.

Several weeks ago, rumors came up that Jon had offered to allow his children to appear on the network again in exchange for a clean legal slate. The exact terms of the settlement however, were not disclosed.

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Tila Tequila and Shawne Merriman have finally settled their lawsuits against one another, according to Tila’s lawyer Cyrus Nownejad.

Tila filed the first suit back last year, accusing Shawne of assaulting her by grabbing, choking, and tossing her around (the photo above was supposedly her evidence of the incident). Shawne countered shortly after with his own suit, claiming that Tila’s accusations ruined a business deal that he had with Walmart.

Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

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A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Hugh Hefner by a Playboy shareholder, who accused Hugh of refusing to sell the now-failing Playboy company for a decent price when he had the chance.

According to the suit, Hugh had two opportunities to sell Playboy over the past six months, but he sabotaged both deals in order to avoid having to give up his own lavish lifestyle, reality TV show, and plethora of beautiful women.

The lawsuit noted that the Playboy stock sold for $36 per share in 1999, but sells for only $3.14 today. The plaintiffs are now seeking unspecified damages.

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