Donald Trump Takes Credit For Discovering Lady Gaga

 

As if wealth and success weren't enough for The Donald, he's also claiming he has a helpiing hand in the music industry.

Lady Gaga has become one of the world’s biggest pop powerhouses, earning recognition, awards, and lots of money in the little time that she’s been on the music scene. Now, well-respected business man Donald Trump is taking credit for Gaga’s rise to fame.

In his latest book, Time To Get Tough: Making America #1Again, he discussed his role in owning the Miss Universe pageant, and his encounter with an aspiring artist by the name of Lady Gaga. He gave her the opportunity to be the headlining act at the 2008 Miss Universe Pageant.

He says, “I own the Miss Universe Pageant. And about four years ago, during what you call half-time, we always have an entertainer. We've had a lot of great people, and you don't pay them anything because it's one of the biggest audiences and my people told me, 'Nobody knows who she is but there's this woman with good talent named Lady Gaga.'"

Mr. Trump continues, “I said, 'I don't care ... if you like her, put her on.' "So we put her on ... it was live all over the United States and all over the world and the next day, nobody was talking about [the winner of] Miss Universe, everybody was talking, 'Who was the woman, who was the entertainer? She was unbelievable.'"

He insists that she acknowledges his role in her success and is grateful to him, "She's been very gracious about it ... I don't want to say we made Lady Gaga, but she was incredible and that was her break."
Well, Donald is all about success and appearances so it’s not all that surprising that he’d be taking credit for her success. It’s nice that he gave her a chance to shine. Maybe that’s just what she needed to get her career in motion.

Lady Gaga Not Playing Amy Winehouse in Biopic

 

Lady Gaga will not be starring in a biopic of Amy Winehouse, contrary to news reported over the weekend.

Over the weekend, Amy Winehouse’s father implied that Lady Gaga would play his daughter in a biopic. He, however, later retracted that statement, on Twitter and through a spokesperson to Entertainment Weekly.

Originally, he was reported as saying to the press: "I have heard that Lady GaGa is keen to play Amy in a film. I don't know what her English accent is like but it's not just an English accent she would have to perfect - it's an English-Cockney-Jewish accent so she better start practising now. But she would be great."

He then tweeted: "I never said Lady GaGa will play Amy in film. Also Amy's room not a shrine. Wot a load of rubbish. Mitch (sic)."

A spokesperson for the family then clarified: “Mitch and the family would entertain ideas perhaps for a film but only one they were sure would tell the truth.”

At one point, Winehouse’s former boyfriend Reg Traviss was asked to direct a biopic, but he turned it down, telling MTV: "I guess a biopic is inevitable. I have been asked but I honestly don't think I could do it. I'd be too close to it. […] But whoever does write and direct the film may exaggerate certain points to make it more 'Hollywood'. The family would want to be involved to make sure that it's done justice. But right now it's all too raw."

This week, the late Winehouse’s posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures hit No. 1 in the U.K. About the news, her mother, Janis, told the press: "It’s such amazing news that Amy’s album has gone to number one, and just goes to show what she still means to people."

Do you think an Amy Winehouse biopic should be done? Or, is it too soon to even think about it?