Lawsuit Reveals Belinda Carlisle Is One Fickle Go-Go

God bless the Go-Go's, indeed, 'cause there's never a dull moment with that bunch of card-carrying AARP members.

In an explosive new lawsuit, Belinda Carlisle has been revealed as the driving force behind the ouster of Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine -- if not the instigator --something I reported first back in March. (Told you so, anonymous losers.) Valentine is suing for a cool million bucks (plus) alleging her bandmates of over 30 years -- Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, Jane Wiedlin and Gina Schock -- colluded to form a new company that could "license" the Go-Go's name, brand and trademark, of which Valentine is a 20 percent partner, and go on as a band without her. By sidestepping the band's longstanding arrangement, the suit alleges they sought to increase their earnings by only having to split things four ways. The legal mumbo jumbo is detailed in legalese for you HERE, but the real story -- no surprise -- is the fact that Queen Belinda is revealed to be the conniving mean girl that you always knew she was in real life! To think she told Joan Rivers she refused to do a Go-Go's reality show because she was afraid the producers who edit(!) things to make her look like a diva. Get a load of this.

Before Belinda set her sights on kicking Kathy to the curb -- something that Jane (and Gina) egged on by urging Belinda's son to point out portions of Kathy's brilliant Twitter memoir that they knew would incense his mother -- Carlisle had decided she would rather end the band completely than work with Jane anymore. Jane, it should be noted, reacted to Belinda's decision by trying to convince the other members that they should go on with a new lead singer(!), an idea Valentine objected to.




Most recently, Jane and Gina got angry about Kathy's Twitter memoir (in particular things about drug use) -- and, from what I gather, Kathy's desire for the band to try new things instead of rehashing the same 30-year-old set list -- and got Belinda to do their dirty work. As detailed in the lawsuit, Kathy was extremely apologetic and removed all tweets others found objectionable -- tweets it should be mentioned that said nothing about drug use that each of the band members had not already discussed at length in various "Behind the Music" and other interviews -- and when that wasn't enough, Valentine  deleted the entire account. After being repeatedly assured that everything was OK, she received the following e-mail from Belinda, in which she threatens Kathy with a lawsuit, even though it was the Go-Go's who were conspiring to push her out of the band!



Again, Valentine was apologetic and tried to work things out -- like an adult might -- asking for a face-to-face meeting with the entire band, but was told that Belinda was "too busy to listen" to whatever Kathy had to say and that "nothing she can say or do an change my mind." Can change "her" mind? And you thought the Go-Go's were a band!!!!