The upcoming issue of Vanity Fair will take a look at the predilections of disgraced boy-band maestro Lou Pearlman–currently cooling his jets in a Florida jail while awaiting a trial on bank fraud charges–and you may be shocked to hear that his interests in young men went beyond their abilities to sing, dance, and make the little girls cry. In addition to allegations that he was “definitely inappropriate” with the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter and a description of his clumsy pickup techniques (one person recalls him spreading his legs while wearing a white terrycloth robe and matching underwear, then uttering the not-quite-Mae-Westian come-on “You’re a smart boy. Figure it out.”), ex-members of lesser boy-band lights recall events that echo the very special Gordon Jump episode of Diff’rent Strokes:
Crazy, Ponzi-scheming, boy-band-creating Lou Pearlman now has no place to go home to if and when he gets out of jail, thanks to a bankruptcy court taking away the Orlando home where he spent so many nights molding willing young boys into a formation-dancing army in white slacks, as well as a condo in Atlantic CIty where we assume he gambled away a small fraction of the millions he made off of O-Town, N*Sync, LFO, and defrauding thousands of people:
Radar has a jailhouse interview with teen-idol-mogul-in-exile Lou Pearlman today; apparently, jail has been great for his figure, and he’s planning to get back in the boy-band game once he’s out of the clink, since he thinks that boy bands will only be over “when God stops making little girls.” More »
Things aren’t looking so good for Lou Pearlman. Facing 130 years in prison for what is described at the largest Ponzi scheme in history and locked up in a Florida jail awaiting trial, Pearlman probably wonders if he has any friends left in this cruel world. Good news, Lou! You can count on one person: former LFO member and current male model Brad Fischetti.
Just two days after his possessions were auctioned off in Florida, boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman–missing since February–was found by Federal authorities in Indonesia. He’s since been transported to Guam, where he’ll appear before a federal judge on one count of felony bank fraud, the AP reports. The Orlando Sentinel has more details:
Indonesian authorities located Pearlman living in a resort hotel in the tourist district of Nusa Dua in Bali. Immigration officials in that country told him he was no longer welcome in their country and then expelled him. In the process, they turned him over to U.S. officials.
To the right, one of the many boyband curios offered up by the liquidation of Backstreet Boys/’NSync impresario/Federal “person of interest” Lou Pearlman’s assets: A clock made out of the single for LFO’s “Summer Girls” (you know, the “I like girls who wear Abercrombie and Fitch” song). More »
Lou Pearlman–the mastermind behind the careers of ‘NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, as well as lesser boy-band lights like Natural–is still on the lam and wanted on Federal charges. The Orlando Sentinel today revealed court documents that indicate Pearlman’s panic about the downward trajectory of his company, Trans Continental Enterprises, began last year:
In the final days of Lou Pearlman’s empire, he and his associates transferred millions of dollars into personal bank accounts, stripped the company of big-screen TVs and crystal vases, and shredded and carted away boxes of papers, according to a new court document obtained by the Sentinel on Thursday night.
Lou Pearlman–the man who helped launch the careers of ‘NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys–is missing. The FBI is trying to track down the 53-year-old Trans Continental Records founder, whose Orlando-based business empire is the target of a massive criminal investigation. More »
