Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Betrayal: Lady Gaga’s Father, Joe Germanotta, Rips Up His Meal Ticket, Tweets Support for Donald Trump

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UPDATE: Mr. Germanotta has wisely deleted the Tweet. But it lives here.

EARLIER Lady Gaga — Stephanie Germanotta– has vocally supported Joe Biden for President. She made a ton of videos, and performed at his big final rally in Philadelphia.

So what does her father do? On election night he Tweeted support for Donald Trump. Joe Germanotta has basically ripped up his meal ticket. And not just his: Germanotta owns Joanne restaurant on West 70th St, already plagued by bad publicity for a number of reasons. When word spreads, I doubt Upper West Siders will be flocking to his trattoria.

It just goes to show: you can be rich, famous, and supporting the people around you and they will still betray you. Does Gaga need this crap? No. Neither do we. Even if he supported Trump, Germanotta should have kept his trap shut. What a miserable thing to do.

And what’s his excuse? He Tweets: “You may have noticed my political and spiritual beliefs are different. liberty and freedom of choice would not be political.”

In other words, he was born this way. Stupid. If I were Gaga, I’d pull the plug on that restaurant.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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