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Settlement Between Gaga and Manager To Stay Out of Public View

By Mary Pat Gallagher
August 02, 2014

Lady Gaga and her former producer, Rob Fusari, won a court order that keeps a lid on the terms of a 2010 settlement agreement between them that has become pertinent to another case now headed for trial. They convinced a federal court in Newark that the agreement contains personal and financial information about them that will harm them and violate the terms of the 2010 agreement if it is publicly disclosed in the pretrial order of a pending suit, Starland v. Fusari, 2:2010cv04930 (D.N.J.), according to court papers.

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted a joint motion by Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) and Fusari to partially seal the pretrial order and he required that a redacted version of the document be filed instead.

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