I can understand how she’s so upset, she did earn her money and she did it by working hard. But calling someone a ‘hoodrat’ is really uncalled for. It’s bullying, would she want her ‘little monsters’ calling others hoodrats? My daughters are fans of her music and her message, but I would never allow them to call other people names.

GaGa is the queen of HER universe. I can only imagine what a PITA she could be to work for.

But with that said, peopl know what they’re getting into when they take a job for her.

I fucking hate this bitch so much and can’t wait until her lame ass 15 minutes are over. Madonna you are NOT!

The question appears to be did she work overtime or not? There are federal and state laws applicable and whether overtime has to be paid is dependent on a lot of things such as whether or not the employee is in a “professional” classified position and/or she supervised other employees, etc. I’m not sure preparing a hotel room the way Gaga likes it qualifies for professional unless there is something requiring a certain skill set such as setting up for photo shoots, etc. If it’s just making sure there are M&Ms in a bowl, it’s not really a professional job. The employee’s attitude, competency and abuses of Gaga’s hospitality are irrelevant to whether she’s entitled to overtime. From the way Gaga testified, it’s pretty obvious this woman did a lousy job and had a bad attitude so I empathize with Gaga, but it simply doesn’t matter.

Wow this chick is a cheap asshole. She just bashed her fan base with that 9-5 remark (I read GC all day not play Tetirs thank you very much). Plus, she wants people available 24/7 but, only pays them like if it was a 9-5 f that, if you are waking me up at 2am for something I better be getting something in return. Is the ex assistant right for doing a crappy job and using Gaga to get things for herself. No…but, 75,000 for 24/7 for 2 years depending on how many days/months she worked consecutive and how she was paid (weekly/bi/monthly) really isn’t worth it. Good luck O’Neill, Gaga makes millions and obviously is a diva pain in the ass and pays her people like she is a start up company. Gross.

Wow, what any eye opener. I always thought that Gaga was a humble person, but apparently she thinks she is the queen of the universe and thinks that it is okay to refer to her staff as slaves. For some one who is always preaching about kindness to others I think she forgot her manners a little bit. She sounds like a spoiled brat, who thinks the world should and does revolve around her. If she wants people to see her as the Queen of kindness then I think she needs to stop all of the public disputes, they are not painting her in a good light. I’ve always respected her but after reading all that I’m starting to believe she isn’t any different from any other over exposed diva, who that truly believes that they are better then the rest of the world. Yes she works hard, but honestly I could think of a few other professions who deserve the money she makes much more then she does, like lets say teachers or nurses. Pull the stick out of your ar$e Gaga and get back to reality.

The thing is, Jennifer WASN’T available 24 hours a day. She’d spend more time sleeping, spending and partying, ever since the Fame Ball Tour. No wonder it became a unanimous decision by Gaga, her managers, fashion directors, dancers, makeup artistes, that O’Neil should be fired. The rest of Gaga’s entourage was perfectly happy with working with Gaga. The money that they earned was more than enough to support their families, considering that all their expenses when being gaga’s entourage are already settled for. So I don’t get why someone who barely works should earn more than the other people who are passionate about their work and don’t expect anything more.

Lady Gaga pays her for that $75,000 a year. The rest of what O’Neil is claiming for is for the overtime that nobody else gets either, and you know why? O’Neil gets five star treatment, being in Gaga’s entourage. She gets to play around in private planes, sleep in presidential suites, party like a rockstar, eat in exclusive dinners, buy things using Gaga’s credit cards, wear Gaga’s designer clothes. At that kind of lavish lifestyle, many other people would actually pay to be in Gaga’s entourage.

You know what? Whenever I step into gossip sites like this. The comments section are nothing but full of negativity. I do not know who Jennifer really was until Gaga brought this up. But why didn’t Tara and Fedrick sue Gaga for not paying them? If Jennifer really likes working with Gaga she should be available for her at all times because its Gaga.

How is she being a Madonna wannabe. Jesus why is it that every pop singer has to aspire to be Madonna. And how is that even relevant to this article?

Besides the part about private planes. Everything else you just wrote is speculation unless you can provide proof. I’m going off the article. And also no where in the article says O’Neill wasn’t available.

Gaga kept Jennifer onboard because Jennifer had been close with Gaga ever since she was 19. O’Neil has been quoted several times in gaga’s biographies, as she was by Gaga’s side for very long. But unlike Gaga’s other friends, O’Neil took advantage of Gaga’s fame.

And by the way, Terry Richardson did take photos of O’Neil playing Tetris in the tour bus.

alright lets all calm down. Would ‘mother monster’ like you calling people a jerk? Oh wait maybe she would because she is a hypocrite. So, yes okay you are a true Gaga fan. Carry on

This is how she argues with her closest friends. Everybody who’s followed Gaga since 2008 would know that O’Neil has been one of her best friends for a very long time. I do admit that it was wrong of her to swear under oath, but what she says makes sense.

Anyway, Gaga writes and produces songs for herself and other artists. She is the creative producer at Polaroid, designs clothes for her tour, sings well, performs live, acts, plays the piano and guitar and has full control over her own career, so she very well deserves every penny that she’s earned. She also engages very actively in LGBT activism and does philanthropy when she’s free, so there’s that extra revenue from publicity.

If she was such a horrible singer then Elton John, Madonna, Beyonce, KISS, The Rolling Stones, Cyndi Lauper, Usher, the Grammy commitee and most critics out there wouldn’t compliment her as much as they do.

She DOES write good songs. Songs like Bad Romance were conceptually original; a classic pop record. It was anchored in counter-culture themes and focused around the destructive nature of desire, exploring the Freudian animalistic drives towards sex and death. She doesn’t have to preach anything to write a good song, instead she puts in Alfred Hitchcock references to describe the darkness of the human psyche.

She also DOES perform well live. In most of her songs on tour she dances in 10-inch heels, running around wherever she wants to. And when she falls, she always gets back up (VMA 2011 performance with Brian May, The Houston Monster Ball performance where she hit her head on the piano, BTW Ball Auckland when a heavy metal pole hit her head, and recently how she’s been performing despite leprosy causing inflammation in the ligaments in her hips In other times, just some examples)

Other times she’s sitting down singing live better than in the studio. Look up her performances of Hair, Captivated, Livin on the Radio, Princess Die, Speechless, any thanksgiving performance, or any acoustic performance, for that matter. Some examples
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOzDDI-nfb4 which really highlight that even though she’s, conceptually, too heavily influenced by the pop culture icons before her, she’ll still a better vocalist than Madonna.

And she’s horrible at marketing herself, but then again, it’s not her fault. It’s always her label that’s choosing the most commercial songs in her albums for release, so now she looks more pretentious and self-righteous than her stuff are cut out to be. She writes ballads more than dance numbers, and these are more worth listening than the singles she’s pushing out.

But you chose to judge her based on what she wears and the commercial stuff she’s put out there. So it’s funny how you’re so quick to judge, even as a musician. But I do agree with you that you can save so much time by just judging people like that. But maybe it’s about time for you to write interesting and conceptually original music to make yourself appear more relevant, instead of criticizing someone who’s laughing all the way to the bank.