Lou Pearlman: Last News

O-Town have said they are being mistakenly confused as “a Diddy band” and it is hurting their career.The boy band were formed on the first season of the reality TV series Making The Band in 2000, the show that later featured the disgraced rap mogul as a central figure that selected the talent and mentored the aspiring young artists.However, on O-Town’s season of the show, Diddy was not involved, with Backstreet Boys and NSYNC manager Lou Pearlman – himself also a highly controversial figure – acting as the mentor figure.Despite having no connection to Diddy, O-Town have stated that it hasn’t stopped bookers and agents from distancing themselves from the group. “Of all the bands in Making The Band, we’re the only one not tied to him,” the band’s Jacob Underwood told The Hollywood Reporter.“The more people confuse us with a Diddy band and post our pictures with his story, the more it goes against us.

“Bye Bye Bye” before the boy band’s signature song was released 25 years ago on Jan. 17, 2000.After scoring hits such as “I Want You Back” and “Tearin’ Up My Heart” on their self-titled debut album — released in 1997 in Germany and 1998 in the US — the group was locked in a highly publicized legal battle with former manager Lou Pearlman and former label RCA Records.

This Morning star Donal Skehan, 38, has opened up about his own experience with controversial music mogul Lou Pearlman in the wake of the new Netflix documentary Dirty Pop.The exposé details the rise and fall of Lou, who created and allegedly exploited some of the top boy bands of the 1990s. While you may know Donal Skehan from appearing on screen as a TV chef, he was once part of an early 2000s boyband called Streetwize. It all seemed like destiny when he had the chance to audition for music tycoon Lou, but things quickly went sour.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Summer slumber set for streaming viewership in the July 16-Aug. 1 frame as total minutes watched for top original streaming series and movies took a dip from recent weeks. Netflix’s “Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam” and “The Decameron” showed some spunk by making it into Luminate‘s top 10 for original streaming series.

Netflix miniseries Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam explores the dark side of the rise of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, but what songs are included on the show’s soundtrack?The three-episode series delves into the story of band manager Lou Pearlman’s mogul status in the American boy band market in the 1990s, spearheading the chart success of some of the biggest groups of the era, but also charting his dramatic fall.Dirty Pop, named after an *NSYNC lyric, is ultimately the story of a con man, who in 2006 stood accused of running one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in US history.The show uses interviews with many of Pearlman’s former colleagues as well as a number of the stars he helped to create to illustrate the dramatic arc of the businessman’s life.It is suggested that Pearlman’s involvement in the entertainment industry began when he watched a New Kids On The Block appearance on TV and hatched a plan to create another group in their image.That group went on to become Backstreet Boys, the members of whom Pearlman recruited with a talent search. In the wake of their success, similar acts followed, including *NSYNC, O-Town, LFO and Take 5.Pearlman was indicted by Florida authorities in 2006 on charges of conspiracy, money laundering and filing false bankruptcy, going on the run before finally being arrested in Indonesia in 2007.He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2008 and passed away in 2016 after a cardiac arrest at the age of 62.A previous documentary about Pearlman was made in 2019, titled The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, produced by *NSYNC’s Lance Bass.Given the subject matter of the series, the three episodes are packed full of ‘90s boy band classics.

Netflix miniseries Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam explores the dark side of the rise of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, but what happened to their manager Lou Pearlman?The three-episode series delves into the story of Pearlman’s mogul status in the American boy band market in the 1990s, spearheading the chart success of some of the biggest groups of the era, but also charting his dramatic fall.Dirty Pop, named after an *NSYNC lyric, is ultimately the story of a con man, who in 2006 stood accused of running one of the largest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in US history.The show uses interviews with many of Pearlman’s former colleagues as well as a number of the stars he helped to create to illustrate the dramatic arc of the businessman’s life.It is suggested that Pearlman’s involvement in the entertainment industry began when he watched a New Kids On The Block appearance on TV and hatched a plan to create another group in their image.That group went on to become Backstreet Boys, the members of whom Pearlman recruited with a talent search. In the wake of their success, similar acts followed, including *NSYNC, O-Town, LFO and Take 5.A previous documentary about Pearlman was made in 2019, titled The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, produced by *NSYNC’s Lance Bass.In 2006, US federal prosecutors discovered that Pearlman had been at the centre of what was thought to be the longest-running Ponzi scheme in the country’s history, with claims that he had defrauded investors out of more than $1billion, of which nearly a third was still missing.In essence, Pearlman convinced companies to invest in his operations, some of which existed only on paper.

Sometimes less really is more!

Lance Bass is doing better now than ever before. The pop star and TV personality is looking back at his time as a member of NSYNC, and explaining why it wasn't exactly the life people may assume.Bass, 43, recently sat down for a chat on SiriusXM’s where he was asked to recall the best part about «being rich and famous really young.»«Well, the worst thing is people thinking that we were rich, because we were not,» Bass said with a chuckle.

passed after a stroke while battling leukemia, and Devin Lima died at 41 of adrenal cancer in 2018.Member Brad Fischetti announced Gillis’ death Thursday on LFO’s Facebook page, writing that he does not know the details of his former bandmate’s death. “My relationship with Brian was complex. It contained moments of great tribulation but also of great joy,” Fischetti said.

Bye, bye, bye to that doubt! ‘NSync might be one of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s, but there was a time when they didn’t even think they’d make it past their debut album.