Many of the stars that Lou Pearlman helped create are speaking out in a new documentary about his life, what went wrong and the scams that affected thousands and cost millions.
'N Sync with manager Lou Pearlman, second from right, in happier times. By Timothy Bella Timothy Bella Deputy editor for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 13 at 3:09 AM Before he was implicated in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, Lou Pearlman’s lies started to unravel at a meal with 'N Sync at a Los Angeles steakhouse.
But when the guys at the steakhouse opened up the envelopes Pearlman gave them at their first check presentation, their hearts sank. 'N Sync’s JC Chasez said he expected to there be “some big, magical check” for selling millions of records, touring with Janet Jackson, dominating the charts and sending teen girls into hysterics. Instead, the checks were for $10,000.
In the documentary, co-produced by Bass, that’s premiering Wednesday at the Austin festival, many of the stars that the fallen impresario helped create are speaking out about his life, what went wrong and the scams that affected thousands. It wasn’t always bad between the manager and his boy bands. As many of them reflect in “The Boy Band Con,” the fleshy Queens native, often referred to as “Big Poppa,” was a father figure who helped the young men grow up when they needed it the most. But other boy-band members have accused Pearlman of sexually assaulting them, according to a 2007 Vanity Fair story. Pearlman denied those allegations.
In the years that followed messy lawsuits from ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys, both of whom severed all ties with him after multi-million-dollar settlements in the late ’90s and early 2000s, Pearlman found himself trying to recreate the magic of those ’90s pioneers. But it wasn’t his later groups like O-Town that got the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2006.
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