Lady Gaga Sued by Ex-Assistant
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Lady Gaga.
Merry Christmas, Lady Gaga, you’re being sued.
The pop icon was gifted with a lawsuit last week from an ex-personal assistant who claims she was overworked and underpaid. In legal documents filed in Manhattan federal court, Jennifer O’Neill, 41, alleges that Gaga, 25, (real name: Stefani Germanotta) owes her hundreds of thousands of dollars for her 13-month stint as the pop star’s right-hand woman during her 2010 Monster Ball world tour.
Among her tasks, according to court papers obtained by the New York Post, was ”ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower and serving as a personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule.” O’Neill claims she catered to Gaga’s every need, at the star’s home and in “stadiums, private jets, fine hotel suites, yachts, ferries, trains and tour buses.”
O’Neill paints a bleak picture of serving the pop princess. In court papers, she says there were no breaks for meals “or, at times, even sleep.” She was obliged to be at Gaga’s beck and call from her “earliest waking hour” to “spontaneous, random matters in the middle of the night.” She even played a part in the star’s legendary wardrobe, “ensuring the availability of chosen outfits” like Gaga’s infamous MTV Video Music Awards meat dress.
O’Neill, who was supposed to be paid $75,000 a year, estimates in court papers that she worked 7,168 hours of unpaid overtime. In addition to her back pay, she’s seeking unspecified damages.
Reps for Gaga did not immediately respond to ABCNews.com’s requests for comment but told the Post that the lawsuit is “completely without merit.”
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Personal assistant to a “pop diva” … what did she expect? lol!
Posted by: yeah.i.said.it | December 26, 2011, 11:42 am 11:42 am
Wow, if I could sue for being overworked and underpaid during my time as a temp, I would be rich. I suspect a great many people also would be. This is a completely frivolous lawsuit. If you don’t like your job, quit it and find another one.
Sounds to me like someone failed to ask important questions during her job interview like “What would my day-to-day schedule be like?” and “Am I expected to be available 24/7?”
Posted by: Willow | December 26, 2011, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
Being unemployed I would be more than happy to work with the amazingly talented Lady Gaga 24/7. Lady Gaga please contact me for your personal assistant position. I’d work for free just for the perks and your generosity alone. I’d fly to the moon with you. Happy New Year Lady Ga, I personally wish you the best. If hired I’d take care of this and make this frivolity disappear so you can focus on what you do best, entertainment for the world.
Posted by: Steph | December 26, 2011, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
Waaaaaahh!!! I was paid 75K for a job that people would line up to do for half that.
Posted by: GeorgeX | December 26, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Lady Gaga is supposed to be a compassionate democrat, how dare she overwork this woman and not pay her overtime, and expert her to be some kind of slave. I believe this woman when we see how these celebreties are self-important, throwing tantrums in public, and over indulged tyrants. Freaking hypocrites.
Posted by: moffet | December 26, 2011, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm
I wonder if the lawyers are going Gaga over this?
Posted by: arg | December 26, 2011, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Wonderful
Posted by: dodo | December 26, 2011, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
Gaga has become the ultimate hypocrite. She decries the horror of bullies, and she has become one of them. She demands respect, yet she shouts “F” bombs and throws her middle finger to President Clinton for his birthday with his wife and daughter present. Now it is revealed that she treats her best help like an unpaid slave. Gaga has become a trashy raging “Psycho Star”. Any message or talent she offers is lost in her excesses and her thinly disguised hate of ‘the other’. She claims to cheer for the underdog, but she calls herself “The Fame Monster”. Indeed, She is a monster of a sort. Another abusive, self important hog of the spotlight charging gullible people money to see her spew her trash act of bully profanity, disrespect, daring excess and hate on stage. Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns.
Posted by: RS | December 27, 2011, 2:05 am 2:05 am
First of all some of you people are assuming the personal assistant is telling the truth. If you calculate the hours, her over time is 18hrs a day.. There is nothing in this story to tell about any contract she had, what hours were included for 75K. I can’t help but wonder why she stayed more than a week, if the situation was so terrible.
Posted by: lh | December 27, 2011, 10:57 am 10:57 am
Yawn, yet another money grabber looking to cash in on Gagas fortune. Getting really sick of people making these ridiculous sob stories to try and gain financially. Most people would kill for an opportunity to work for a talent like Gaga, yet these people think they’re clever by suing for anything and everything under the sun. I’ also love how she can think her ‘estimation’ can have any validation to it. Keep rocking Gaga:)
Posted by: Jono | December 27, 2011, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Yawn, yet another money grabber looking to cash in on Gagas fortune. Getting really sick of people making these ridiculous sob stories to try and gain financially. Most people would kill for an opportunity to work for a talent like Gaga, yet these people think they’re clever by suing for anything and everything under the sun. I’ also love how she can think her ‘estimation’ can have any validation to it. Keep rocking Gaga:)
Posted by: moises1997 | December 27, 2011, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm