Vanity Fair is reporting that Lou Pearlman, 53, the creator of such boy bands as *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, LFO, and O-Town, is a pedophile who forced boys into sexual acts in exchange for fame. Pearlman is currently in Florida awaiting trial for bank fraud in excess of $315 million. He was apprehended in June while living in Indonesia where he had assumed a fake name. Page Six says:
I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Louās game was,ā Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who was Pearlmanās assistant, told VFās Bryan Burrough. āSome guys joked about it. I remember [one singer] asking me, āHave you let Lou [fellate] you yet?ā ā Mooney said he once asked Pearlman, who was known as āBig Poppa,ā what it would take for him to get into a band. āIāll never forget this as long as I live. He leaned back in his chair, in his white terry cloth robe and white underwear, and spread his legs,ā Mooney told Burrough. āAnd then he said, and these were his exact words, āYouāre a smart boy. Figure it out.ā ā Mooney added that a singer groped by Pearlman told him, āLook, if a guy wants to massage me, and Iām getting a million dollars for it, you just go along with it. Itās the price you got to pay.ā Phoenix Stone, an early member of the Backstreet Boys, tells Vanity Fair Pearlman was ādefinitely inappropriateā with Nick Carter. Nickās mom, Jane Carter, wouldnāt get into specifics, but said, āCertain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothersā¦I tried to expose him for what he was years ago.ā
Wow, this is pretty sick. What kind of a world do we live in when stuff like this happens? All these guys wanted to do was lip-sync and perform their choreographed dance moves on stage, and this guy turns it into something gay. Shame on you, sir.
Hereās one of Pearlmanās former boy-banders, Justin Timberlake, on Sept. 27th: