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Gaga sheds a tear in Japan

Gaga is in a lot of deep scheiße with this charity scam allegations. To me, this whole wristband thing was another attempt to draw attention to herself. What a shocker.

So, Gaga makes these wristbands which cost money to make. Then puts it on her website so her fans have to buy one in order for proceeds to go to Japan while at the same time she advertises her brand.  It's disgusting and low.  Everything she does is so self serving. What a way to  make a tragedy about you. 

A commenter on Perez Hilton's website has this to say and I could not have said it better myself:

instead of spending money to make bracelets that advertise YOURSELF & make you look like you "care" & are doing something "good" (& inflating the prices so you make back what it cost to produce) ditch the self advertising bracelets & just donate the money you used to MAKE them? Oh no, it's an opportunity to advertise yourself & make yourself look good. Leave your fans, who aren't rich in MILLIONS like you, to pay. you knew you could get away with it though, your "monsters" will gladly pay their last cent to make YOU look good & you know that. It's just too bad your charity scam is being brought to light now. Inflate prices & skim off the top to make a profit. Let your fans clean up the mess. pathetic.

Well said.  

Lady Gaga Facing A 5 Million Dollar Lawsuit

A Detroit law firm, 1-800-LAW-FIRM filed a lawsuit in the circuit courts for allegedly scamming money from sales of her "We Pray For Japan" wristbands. The wristbands sold for $5.00 with a $3.99 shipping fee and a $0.60 cent tax. 


The law firm is stating that Gaga kept part of the $5.00 and inflated shipping charges so that she could pocket more. She then counted even the money she allegedly pocketed in her donation figures, artificially inflating donation numbers, in order to make more money, the suit charged.

Another problem is that Gaga didn't properly disclose how much of that money was going to Japan. Attorneys Ari Kresch and Alyson Oliver of 1-800-LAW-FIRM have this to say:

“I’m suing Lady Gaga simply to hold her accountable for giving the money that she was raising for charity to the cause that she was trying to raise it for,” said Ari Kresch.

“But when you use your celebrity and your power as a musician to take money from people under false pretenses, that’s just wrong,” said Alyson Oliver.

“When we tried to communicate with the defendants in this lawsuit, all we got was, well, some of the money is being retained, but we don’t really know how much, is the essence of the response that we got,” Oliver said.

It will be interesting to see how this pans out.  I guess Gaga did want that $5.00 in your pocket after all. 


See the Federal Class Action Lawsuit here!!!!

UPDATE:  There have been many complaints from customers on her website saying they did not receive their bracelets. Lady Gaga has sold her wristbands across the country which could mean that she violated consumer protection laws in every single state.  1-800-LAW-FIRM was alerted to the alleged scam because Gaga charged tax and charities are not subject to tax. So where did that tax money go?  

Lady Xerox Copy Cat Picture of the Day

No way is Gaga a copy cat.  How can ANYONE call her that! She is so original!

Lady Xerox Copy Cat Picture of the Day

Madonna 1992

Born This Way Sales Continue to Fall

By Peter Buchanan

Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory” single has finally made it into the Chicago Top 20, but there is more bad news for her on the national album charts. Hits Daily Double predicts a 35 percent plunge this week, which would put the “album of the decade” far behind Adele, Bad Meets Evil, and Adele.

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Perez Hilton, Gaga friend and sycophant, posted an entry on his celebrity gossip site that Gaga states on her facebook page that Born This Way has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide.

I don't know how good Gaga's math skills are but if she gets out her calculator and adds up the numbers, it's more like 854,484.

In the fourth week of release for “Born this Way,” her latest release sold a mere 68,935 copies. That brings her to a total of 1,254,484–less, of course, the 440,000 copies that amazon gave away for 99 cents. If those are removed, the total is 854,484. That’s a lot of CDs, of course, no matter what the parameters. But with the amazon deal and no real second breakout single, “Born this Way” is quickly vanishing. This week it fell to number 4