Gaga new deal talks

BEAUTIFUL, DIRTY, RICH: Lady Gaga’s team, spearheaded by manager Troy Carter and heavyweight attorney Gary Stiffelman, is deep into the process of renegotiating the contract of the breakout artist with Interscope, causing wonderers to wonder how her dramatically increased leverage—having sold 3.25m on The Fame and another million on The Fame Monster, plus a mind-boggling 15.5m singles—might impact the 360 aspects of her current deal, which has been a major windfall for Interscope. Both sides are hoping to have a new agreement in place well before the anticipated fall release of her next LP. This news comes courtesy of our in-house pundit I.B. Bad, whose coverage of the EMI crisis continues in news. (4/29a)