At the turn of the millennium, the battle lines in the boy-band wars were fairly clear. You were either on Team Backstreet Boys or Team ‘NSync. Some fans took a Switzerland-like stance and professed equal love for both groups, but they were mostly full of shit. Everyone had a favorite.
The cold war turned hot when ‘NSync’s Chris Kirkpatrick and the Backstreet Boys’ Aj McLean dated the same woman a couple of years apart. “I wanted to punch Aj’s lights out for a little while,” Kirkpatrick said years later.
The cold war turned hot when ‘NSync’s Chris Kirkpatrick and the Backstreet Boys’ Aj McLean dated the same woman a couple of years apart. “I wanted to punch Aj’s lights out for a little while,” Kirkpatrick said years later.
- 2/26/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
PodcastOne (Nasdaq: Podc), a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (Nasdaq: Lvo), which owns 80% of the Podc common stock, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive multiyear sales and distribution rights to New York Times best-selling author and attorney Rabia Chaudry’s and actress Ellyn Marsh’s true crime genre podcast, Rabia & Ellyn Solve the Case. Chaudry, who initiated the worldwide sensation podcast Serial and served as an Executive Producer on the HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed and Marsh, who starred on Broadway in Enron and Kinky Boots, host the weekly show.
Everyone has a true crime story they're obsessed with solving. Join true-crime experts, Chaudry and Marsh, along with special celebrity guests as they break down their favorite true crime cases. With Chaudry’s legal expertise and Marsh’s comedic wit, you’ll be seeing these cases in a whole new light. Launched...
Everyone has a true crime story they're obsessed with solving. Join true-crime experts, Chaudry and Marsh, along with special celebrity guests as they break down their favorite true crime cases. With Chaudry’s legal expertise and Marsh’s comedic wit, you’ll be seeing these cases in a whole new light. Launched...
- 12/5/2023
- Podnews.net
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Are *Nsync songs still the music of your heart? Same. Though the band officially split up in 2004, they've continued to occupy a special place in many fans' hearts, and there's been renewed interest in the group ever since they reunited and released their first song in two decades in September for Dreamworks' film "Trolls Band Together." The band also reunited onstage at the 2023 MTV VMAs, and even Taylor Swift couldn't help expressing her hopes that there's more *Nsync to come.
In honor of the group's reunion, however brief it turns out to be, we're taking a look back at how the best '90s boy band first formed. Over the years, bits and pieces of their origins have been shared in TV specials and interviews, including some pretty surprising details. Did you know there was almost a different fifth member in Lance Bass's spot?...
Are *Nsync songs still the music of your heart? Same. Though the band officially split up in 2004, they've continued to occupy a special place in many fans' hearts, and there's been renewed interest in the group ever since they reunited and released their first song in two decades in September for Dreamworks' film "Trolls Band Together." The band also reunited onstage at the 2023 MTV VMAs, and even Taylor Swift couldn't help expressing her hopes that there's more *Nsync to come.
In honor of the group's reunion, however brief it turns out to be, we're taking a look back at how the best '90s boy band first formed. Over the years, bits and pieces of their origins have been shared in TV specials and interviews, including some pretty surprising details. Did you know there was almost a different fifth member in Lance Bass's spot?...
- 10/19/2023
- by Laura Marie Meyers
- Popsugar.com
Image Source: Getty / Jeff Kravitz For MTV
*Nsync are in the building. For the first time in 10 years, all five members of the band - Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Jc Chasez - reunited at the MTV VMAs in Newark, NJ, on Sept. 12. Nearly 16 years since they officially disbanded in 2007, *Nsync surprised fans by presenting the first award of the night: best pop, which was awarded to Taylor Swift for "Anti-Hero."
After being introduced by Nicki Minaj, the band walked out to the tune of "Bye Bye Bye." Fans greeted the pop superstars with an uproar of cheers and applause, which later increased when Swift took the stage to accept her award. "I'm not doing well pivoting from this to this," Swift said in her speech, referring to her win and the opportunity to meet the band.
As she accepted her award, Bass also stepped forward...
*Nsync are in the building. For the first time in 10 years, all five members of the band - Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Jc Chasez - reunited at the MTV VMAs in Newark, NJ, on Sept. 12. Nearly 16 years since they officially disbanded in 2007, *Nsync surprised fans by presenting the first award of the night: best pop, which was awarded to Taylor Swift for "Anti-Hero."
After being introduced by Nicki Minaj, the band walked out to the tune of "Bye Bye Bye." Fans greeted the pop superstars with an uproar of cheers and applause, which later increased when Swift took the stage to accept her award. "I'm not doing well pivoting from this to this," Swift said in her speech, referring to her win and the opportunity to meet the band.
As she accepted her award, Bass also stepped forward...
- 9/13/2023
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
Brian “Brizz” Gillis, a founding member of the boy band Lfo, who left right before the group scored their 1999 hit “Summer Girls,” has died. He was 47.
Lfo’s Brad Fischetti — who is now the sole surviving member of the group following the deaths of Rich Cronin in 2010 and Devin Lima in 2018 — confirmed Gillis’ death on Instagram Thursday, March 30. Fischetti did not reveal a cause of death, saying, “I don’t have details and it wouldn’t be my place to share them if I did.”
He continued: “I am really...
Lfo’s Brad Fischetti — who is now the sole surviving member of the group following the deaths of Rich Cronin in 2010 and Devin Lima in 2018 — confirmed Gillis’ death on Instagram Thursday, March 30. Fischetti did not reveal a cause of death, saying, “I don’t have details and it wouldn’t be my place to share them if I did.”
He continued: “I am really...
- 3/31/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Brian “Brizz” Gillis, the singer who co-founded the Massachusetts boy band Lfo, has died at 47. His former bandmate Brad Fischetti shared the news on Thursday via Instagram, which was later confirmed by Variety.
“I don’t have details and it wouldn’t be my place to share them if I did,” Fischetti shared at the beginning of his heartfelt tribute post. “The first two chapters of the Lfo story lost a main character yesterday… I am really struggling to process this tragic loss.”
“My relationship with Brian was complex,” he continued. “It contained moments of great tribulation but also of great joy. I learned a lot from him about the business of music and how to put together and rock a show. And it’s those positive aspects of our relationship that I will lean on now and forever.”
Gillis formed the pop trio Lyte Funkie Ones with Fischetti and...
“I don’t have details and it wouldn’t be my place to share them if I did,” Fischetti shared at the beginning of his heartfelt tribute post. “The first two chapters of the Lfo story lost a main character yesterday… I am really struggling to process this tragic loss.”
“My relationship with Brian was complex,” he continued. “It contained moments of great tribulation but also of great joy. I learned a lot from him about the business of music and how to put together and rock a show. And it’s those positive aspects of our relationship that I will lean on now and forever.”
Gillis formed the pop trio Lyte Funkie Ones with Fischetti and...
- 3/31/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Aaron Carter’s sister, Angel Conrad, is opening up about losing her “selfless” twin, how she and older brother, Nick Carter, are carrying each through their grief and why the loss has “lit a fire” inside her to fight mental illness.
Aaron passed away in November following a long struggle with mental illness and addiction. He was 34. Amid her grief, Angel organized Wednesday’s star-studded West Hollywood benefit concert, Songs for Tomorrow, to celebrate Aaron’s life and generate conversation around mental illness.
“I will always remember Aaron as a selfless, goofy person, who ultimately just wanted to be loved,” Angel told Et Canada prior to the concert. “Unfortunately, he didn’t learn to love himself first, which is something a lot of people struggle with. In his own words, self-love meant self-respect and self-worth — he had a hard time with that.”
However, there was no doubt about the love...
Aaron passed away in November following a long struggle with mental illness and addiction. He was 34. Amid her grief, Angel organized Wednesday’s star-studded West Hollywood benefit concert, Songs for Tomorrow, to celebrate Aaron’s life and generate conversation around mental illness.
“I will always remember Aaron as a selfless, goofy person, who ultimately just wanted to be loved,” Angel told Et Canada prior to the concert. “Unfortunately, he didn’t learn to love himself first, which is something a lot of people struggle with. In his own words, self-love meant self-respect and self-worth — he had a hard time with that.”
However, there was no doubt about the love...
- 1/19/2023
- by Leena Tailor
- ET Canada
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YouTube Shorts has reached another milestone in our U.S. Top 50. For the first time, the majority of the channels in the top five have sizeable operations on the TikTok competitor.
The #1 channel, however, is known around the world for its ability to provide kids with long-form entertainment.
Chart Toppers
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes remains well ahead of the field in our U.S. Top 50. With a seven-day tally of 545.5 million weekly views, the California-based hub actually lost viewership week-over-week. That didn’t make our all-American ranking much closer, since Cocomelon still has a nine-digit viewership lead over the U.
- 10/3/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Justin Timberlake is that rare superstar combo: a celebrated singer who’s also a popular actor. Hot off of the heels of being announced as next year’s Super Bowl Halftime performer, he’ll soon be seen going up against Oscar winner Kate Winslet in Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel.
How did a former ‘Nsync boy band member end up in a film with mounting Oscar buzz? Here’s a look at the 36-year-old’s evolution from singer to thespian.
From the Mickey Mouse Club to ‘Nsync
As a kid in 1983, the Memphis-native sang country songs on the singing competition show Star Search.
How did a former ‘Nsync boy band member end up in a film with mounting Oscar buzz? Here’s a look at the 36-year-old’s evolution from singer to thespian.
From the Mickey Mouse Club to ‘Nsync
As a kid in 1983, the Memphis-native sang country songs on the singing competition show Star Search.
- 11/30/2017
- by Madison Rossi
- PEOPLE.com
Parenthood vet Sam Jaeger can’t resist some good old-fashioned family drama.
The actor will co-star in producer Dick Wolf’s anthology series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders as Detective Les Zoeller, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The eight-episode inaugural installment focuses on Lyle (Miles Gaston Villanueva) and Erik Menendez (Gus Halper), siblings who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The cast also includes The Sopranos‘ Edie Falco (as defense attorney Leslie Abramson), ER‘s Anthony Edwards (as judge...
The actor will co-star in producer Dick Wolf’s anthology series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders as Detective Les Zoeller, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The eight-episode inaugural installment focuses on Lyle (Miles Gaston Villanueva) and Erik Menendez (Gus Halper), siblings who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The cast also includes The Sopranos‘ Edie Falco (as defense attorney Leslie Abramson), ER‘s Anthony Edwards (as judge...
- 6/9/2017
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Leslie Grief’s ThinkFactory Media is teaming with hitmaking songwriter-producers Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson on The Lou Pearlman Story, a limited series about the man behind megaplatinum boy bands Backstreet Boys and ‘Nsync who went from mogul to inmate after being convicted of running a huge Ponzi scheme. Years after shepherding his boy bands to global stardom, Lou Pearlman was caught on the run and pleading guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and…...
- 6/8/2017
- Deadline TV
Nick Carter is a little more understanding of Justin Bieber's "bad boy" issues -- and for good reason!
The Backstreet Boys recently talked to Elle magazine about their Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood, where Carter admitted that had their been Instagram and Twitter when they were coming up, they'd probably be dogged by the same image!
Exclusive: Backstreet Boys Talk Fatherhood and Seeing Nick Carter as a Dad: ‘It’s Trippy!’
"I'll tell you this," the 37-year-old singer shared. "There is some s**t that Aj and I both did that I'm really glad that social media wasn't around for. Because Justin Bieber couldn't hold a candle to what we did."
Whoa!
"Just anything from me being drunk or irate at a club," Carter's bandmate, Aj McLean, agreed. "Or me walking naked down the hallway in a hotel for no apparent reason."
More: Watch the Backstreet Boys Adorably Surprise Their Wives in Florida Georgia Line’s Swoonworthy...
The Backstreet Boys recently talked to Elle magazine about their Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood, where Carter admitted that had their been Instagram and Twitter when they were coming up, they'd probably be dogged by the same image!
Exclusive: Backstreet Boys Talk Fatherhood and Seeing Nick Carter as a Dad: ‘It’s Trippy!’
"I'll tell you this," the 37-year-old singer shared. "There is some s**t that Aj and I both did that I'm really glad that social media wasn't around for. Because Justin Bieber couldn't hold a candle to what we did."
Whoa!
"Just anything from me being drunk or irate at a club," Carter's bandmate, Aj McLean, agreed. "Or me walking naked down the hallway in a hotel for no apparent reason."
More: Watch the Backstreet Boys Adorably Surprise Their Wives in Florida Georgia Line’s Swoonworthy...
- 3/8/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Send your thanks to the boy band gods -- we're getting lots of *Nsync action this year!
Et's Katie Krause caught up with Lance Bass at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where he opened up about the band's big 20-year anniversary, and revealed a special music release for fans.
Watch: *Nsync Reunites for Jc Chasez’s 40th Birthday, Look Dreamier Than Ever!
"We're doing something [special].I don't know if I can announce it yet," Bass teased, before spilling on *Nsync's big projects.
"We're coming out with a really cool vinyl edition of our Christmas album because it's coming up on the 20 years of that [1998 Home for Christmas] album," he shared. "And then we're going to be getting our star on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame this year at some point."
"We'll all be there!" confirmed Bass, who is currently competing on Fox's My Kitchen Rules. "We just have to decide on a date. We're terrible...
Et's Katie Krause caught up with Lance Bass at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where he opened up about the band's big 20-year anniversary, and revealed a special music release for fans.
Watch: *Nsync Reunites for Jc Chasez’s 40th Birthday, Look Dreamier Than Ever!
"We're doing something [special].I don't know if I can announce it yet," Bass teased, before spilling on *Nsync's big projects.
"We're coming out with a really cool vinyl edition of our Christmas album because it's coming up on the 20 years of that [1998 Home for Christmas] album," he shared. "And then we're going to be getting our star on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame this year at some point."
"We'll all be there!" confirmed Bass, who is currently competing on Fox's My Kitchen Rules. "We just have to decide on a date. We're terrible...
- 2/16/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Exclusive: John Curran is now in talks to develop and direct the TV series planned about Lou Pearlman, the manager/producer of Nsync and the Backstreet Boys who was also running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of about $300M dollars. Toby Jones (The Hunger Games franchise, The Coldest City) is attached to star in the series. Curran is well-suited to direct the Lou Pearlman project. He is just completing the film Chappaquiddick based on Ted Kennedy and the…...
- 2/15/2017
- Deadline TV
The Lou Pearlman television series has found its leading man, Et confirms exclusively.
Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actor Toby Jones has signed on to star as the late boy band producer in a limited TV series that stems from the New Yorker article titled "We Live in a Pop-Culture World that Lou Pearlman Created," which tells of Pearlman's rise from struggling business owner to music mogul, as well as his fall to fraud.
Watch: Justin Timberlake Reacts to Lou Pearlman's Death -- 'I Hope He Found Some Peace'
This isn't the first time Jones -- perhaps best known for his roles in The Hunger Games and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- will portray a real-life person in the entertainment industry. In 2012, he took on the role of Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO TV movie, The Girl, alongside Sienna Miller as The Birds star, Tippi Hedren.
"We’re beyond excited to have someone of Toby's caliber on board...
Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated actor Toby Jones has signed on to star as the late boy band producer in a limited TV series that stems from the New Yorker article titled "We Live in a Pop-Culture World that Lou Pearlman Created," which tells of Pearlman's rise from struggling business owner to music mogul, as well as his fall to fraud.
Watch: Justin Timberlake Reacts to Lou Pearlman's Death -- 'I Hope He Found Some Peace'
This isn't the first time Jones -- perhaps best known for his roles in The Hunger Games and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- will portray a real-life person in the entertainment industry. In 2012, he took on the role of Alfred Hitchcock in the HBO TV movie, The Girl, alongside Sienna Miller as The Birds star, Tippi Hedren.
"We’re beyond excited to have someone of Toby's caliber on board...
- 10/28/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
The life story of Lou Pearlman, the former multiplatinum boy band manager-turned-convicted felon, is getting the movie treatment. John Stamos, Desmond Child and Andreas Carlsson have acquired the rights to Tyler Gray’s 2008 book The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History and will serve as producers of the film, which is in the early development stage. This comes just weeks after news spread that a limited series about Pearlman wa…...
- 9/7/2016
- Deadline
If you grew up listening to boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *Nsync you might already be familiar with the story of Lou Pearlman, the mastermind behind the biggest boy bands of the ’90s and early 2000s.
The infamous Ponzi schemer, who was sentenced to 25-years in prison after running a two-decade-long financial scheme that cheated investors out of more than $300 million, died a week ago on August 19. According to The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s office, Pearlman passed away from an infection of the inner lining of the heart following a valve replacement.
Now, his infamous life story is getting the TV treatment after Magnet Management and Condé Nast acquired the rights to a recent article about the producer published by The New Yorker, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created.”
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The infamous Ponzi schemer, who was sentenced to 25-years in prison after running a two-decade-long financial scheme that cheated investors out of more than $300 million, died a week ago on August 19. According to The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s office, Pearlman passed away from an infection of the inner lining of the heart following a valve replacement.
Now, his infamous life story is getting the TV treatment after Magnet Management and Condé Nast acquired the rights to a recent article about the producer published by The New Yorker, “We Live in the Pop-Culture World That Lou Pearlman Created.”
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- 8/27/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
The bestselling author behind The Finest Hours and his Boston Strong co-author are launching a new production company, and they already have their sights set on their first project — Billion Dollar Sound, a limited TV series about the corrupt boy band manager Lou Pearlman and his relationship with Lfo lead singer Rich Cronin. Author Casey Sherman, author-journalist Dave Wedge and producer Ted Collins (Sally, Dose Of Reality) have launched Whydah Productions to develop…...
- 8/23/2016
- Deadline TV
The bestselling author behind The Finest Hours and his Boston Strong co-author are launching a new production company, and they already have their sights set on their first project — Billion Dollar Sound, a limited TV series about the corrupt boy band manager Lou Pearlman and his relationship with Lfo lead singer Rich Cronin. Author Casey Sherman, author-journalist Dave Wedge and producer Ted Collins (Sally, Dose Of Reality) have launched Whydah Productions to develop…...
- 8/23/2016
- Deadline
Image Source: Getty / Mark Weiss Music producer Lou Pearlman passed away in prison on Friday, and his sudden death is being met with conflicting emotions from former members of the boy bands he managed back in the mid-'90s and early 2000s. Lou was serving time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, TX, for a number of fraud charges, including money laundering, conspiracy, and bank schemes; in 2008, he was convicted of cheating various investors out of more than $300 million. In addition to managing *Nsync and the Backstreet Boys, Lou Pearlman also oversaw the careers of O-Town, Lfo, and Aaron Carter. Image Source: Getty / Evan Agostini A handful of Lou's former artists took to social media over the weekend to share thoughts about his passing. Justin Timberlake tweeted, "I hope he found some peace," while his fellow *Nsync bandmate Lance Bass remarked, "He might not have been a stand up businessman,...
- 8/22/2016
- by Brittney Stephens
- Popsugar.com
Lou Pearlman died from an ongoing cardiac problem ... TMZ has learned. According to the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office, the mastermind behind the Backstreet Boys and 'Nsync ... died at a Miami hospital where he was scheduled to have heart surgery. We're told 62-year-old Pearlman had been transferred from his prison cell to have the surgery, but as we reported ... he died Friday -- before the procedure. He had a history of cardiac issues. The official cause...
- 8/22/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Justin Timberlake is paying tribute to Nsync creator Lou Pearlman, who died in prison on Friday. "I hope he found some peace," Timberlake, 35, tweeted on Sunday. "God bless and Rip, Lou Pearlman." The well-wish follows a tumultuous relationship between the boy band and Pearlman. The Timberlake-fronted group filed a lawsuit against Pearlman in the early 2000s, alleging that their contract was unfair. Pearlman died from an undisclosed illness. He was one of most successful producers of the 1990s, creating boy bands like Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Lfo and O-Town. Another Nsync alum, Lance Bass, took to Twitter to pay his respects...
- 8/21/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Justin Timberlake is paying tribute to Nsync creator Lou Pearlman, who died in prison on Friday. "I hope he found some peace," Timberlake, 35, tweeted on Sunday. "God bless and Rip, Lou Pearlman." The well-wish follows a tumultuous relationship between the boy band and Pearlman. The Timberlake-fronted group filed a lawsuit against Pearlman in the early 2000s, alleging that their contract was unfair. Pearlman died from an undisclosed illness. He was one of most successful producers of the 1990s, creating boy bands like Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Lfo and O-Town. Another Nsync alum, Lance Bass, took to Twitter to pay his respects...
- 8/21/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Lou Pearlman, former manager of boy bands *Nsync and the Backstreet Boys, has died, Billboard has confirmed. He was 62. The former record producer, who was serving a 25-year sentence in prison, died at the Federal Correctional Institute in Texarkana, Texas, on Friday, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons record. Related: Matt Roberts, Former […]...
- 8/21/2016
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Lou Pearlman, the record producer/manager who launched huge boy bands including 'Nsync and the Backstreet Boys, has died in prison. Pearlman faced a slew of lawsuit by members of the 2 famous groups, claiming he screwed them out of their cash by collecting money for both producing and managing. He became obsessed in the 80's with the enormous success of New Kids on the Block, and launched his own record company. He conducted a $3 million...
- 8/21/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Music producer and manager Lou Pearlman died in prison on Friday from an undisclosed illness, People has confirmed. He was 62. Known in his heyday as "Big Poppa," Pearlman was one of the successful music producers of the 1990s. Based in Orlando, Florida, he created several boybands, including the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Lfo and O-Town. But things went south for Pearlman in 2000, when the Backstreet Boys filed a lawsuit against Pearlman, alleging that their contract was unfair. (In court documents, the band alleged that they had only received $300,000 while Pearlman received millions.) Soon afterwards, Nsync also filed suit. Pop star Aaron Carter...
- 8/21/2016
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
Discredited former Backstreet Boys and NSync producer and manager Lou Pearlman died Friday night while serving a 25-year prison sentence for hatching a $300 million Ponzi scheme in 2009. Pearlman was 62. Although the cause of death has yet to be released, Pearlman suffered a stroke in 2010 while incarceration in Texas at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana, at which time his weight dropped from 325 pounds to 250. The famous boy bands he represented eventually sued him in Federal Court for misrepresentation and fraud, claiming Pearlman was tapping large amounts of money from them. Those cases were settled out...
- 8/21/2016
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Lou Pearlman, the disgraced impresario behind the Backstreet Boys and *Nsync who was serving out a 25-year prison term after being convicted of running a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme in 2008, died Friday night, multiple sources confirmed. He was 62. According to reports from those in communication with Lou as recently as June, he had been moved from a low-security prison in Texarkana, Texas to the federal prison in Miami. The federal inmate database confirms his death but does not cite a cause. *Nsync member Lance Bass tweeted word of the news on Saturday, Aug. 20, writing, "He might not
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- 8/21/2016
- by Seth Abramovitch, Shirley Halperin, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Former 'Nsync member Joey Fatone insists he hasn't crossed over to the dark side by making a film with Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough. According to Fatone, uniting for Dead 7 wasn't a wild notion because the groups never had beef. "They tried to make it that way, but it was never really like that," the actor and singer, 39, told People at the N.Y.C. premiere of another film he's in, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Added Fatone: "It was funny because we were always talking about what each other were doing because we...
- 3/16/2016
- by Maggie Parker, @Maggie_WP
- PEOPLE.com
Former 'Nsync member Joey Fatone insists he hasn't crossed over to the dark side by making a film with Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough. According to Fatone, uniting for Dead 7 wasn't a wild notion because the groups never had beef. "They tried to make it that way, but it was never really like that," the actor and singer, 39, told People at the N.Y.C. premiere of another film he's in, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Added Fatone: "It was funny because we were always talking about what each other were doing because we...
- 3/16/2016
- by Maggie Parker, @Maggie_WP
- PEOPLE.com
While discussing Ashley Judd's confession of the sexual harassment she's endured in Hollywood, Lance Bass shared his own experiences on The Meredith Vieira Show. Bass shared a series of incidents that occurred while he was in 'N Sync, saying, "When I was 16, 17 years old, and you know when we started, there was someone that we worked with that was inappropriately touching us." Bass referred to the man as a "pedophile," but also said he "never felt victimized" and said he was able to joke about it with the other members of 'N Sync. Bass concluded that sexual harassment isn't a "joking thing," but he's glad that he and the other band members were aware and didn't feel victimized. Bass did not name the man; however, in earlier interviews, he has gone on record about alleged sexual harassment from then-manager Lou Pearlman during his 'N Sync days. He also told...
- 10/7/2015
- by Ira Madison III
- Vulture
[[tmz:video id="0_0k73yecz"]] Lance Bass is now saying he was sexually harassed as a teenager in 'N Sync -- and although he didn't name the person who did it ... the new allegation sounds eerily similar to things he's said about the group's ex-manager. Bass and his co-hosts on "The Meredith Vieira Show" were talking about Ashley Judd's recent sexual harassment allegations ... when he opened up about his own experience. Lance says he was inappropriately touched by someone...
- 10/7/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Lance Bass is following Ashley Judd's lead -- and opening up about some disgusting sexual harassment he and the other members of *Nsync suffered when they were teenagers. Judd revealed a "famous" studio head propositioned her to watch him shower in his hotel room when she was filming "Kiss the Girls" back in the '90s. Without naming names, she said she decided to tell her story now because it's "essential to the process of becoming aware" -- and will lead to more people "taking action." Bass heard her loud and clear, telling a disturbing tale of his own today on "The Meredith Vieira Show." "It happens to men too. It’s a two way street. It had happened to me when I was 16 or 17-years-old, when we started there was someone that we worked with that was inappropriately touching us," he reveals. "I wasn’t even aware then,...
- 10/7/2015
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
The Backstreet Boys were pegged as a bubblegum boy band for most of their teen pop careers, but their new documentary Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You Got is showing the darker side of instant fame and life in the spotlight.
"We decided to just let cameras roll, to be honest and open and forthright," Kevin Richardson told Et’s Nancy O’Dell.
Video: Backstreet Boys Documentary Trailer Details the Boy Band's Career and 2013 Reunion
The grown-up Boys, Richardson, Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean, and Howie Dorough, sat down with O’Dell to talk more about the doc and life as teen icons. One major dark spot in the documentary is the band’s relationship with creator and manager Lou Pearlman, who created some of the most successful musical acts of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, nearly all of whom eventually sued him for fraud. Pearlman was eventually jailed for conspiracy and money laundering...
"We decided to just let cameras roll, to be honest and open and forthright," Kevin Richardson told Et’s Nancy O’Dell.
Video: Backstreet Boys Documentary Trailer Details the Boy Band's Career and 2013 Reunion
The grown-up Boys, Richardson, Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean, and Howie Dorough, sat down with O’Dell to talk more about the doc and life as teen icons. One major dark spot in the documentary is the band’s relationship with creator and manager Lou Pearlman, who created some of the most successful musical acts of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, nearly all of whom eventually sued him for fraud. Pearlman was eventually jailed for conspiracy and money laundering...
- 1/29/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
Let's leap back to 1994. Grunge and gangsta rap dominated MTV — music that claimed to be gritty and honest. Yet that year in Orlando, as far away from Seattle as it gets, a Ponzi-scheme scam artist named Lou Pearlman selected five lads aged 14 to 21 to form the Backstreet Boys. Their first gigs were in public-school gymnasiums, to which they pulled up in a Winnebago. By the end of the decade, the Backstreet Boys would upend the Billboard charts and usher in a new millennium of scrubbed pop. And by the time they had sold 130 million albums, they would no longer be boys but men, at once aware that their choreographed dance routines were totally uncool to their drinking-age peers, yet justifiably defensive of the long, hard years of work they had invested in their success. </p...
- 1/28/2015
- Village Voice
Lou Pearlman was the boy-band mogul who brought the Backstreet Boys together, but the shady entrepreneur was no mere benefactor. Pearlman drew up contracts that made him the de facto sixth member of the band, and when the boys eventually realized that Pearlman was somehow making far more than the pittance they were given, they sued their creator. It's a contentious relationship explored in the new documentary Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of, and in this exclusive scene from the film (in theaters and on demand January 30), you can watch as the Backstreet Boys return to Pearlman's estate to reminisce, though the mogul himself is currently locked up until 2029 for engineering a Ponzi scheme. Still, his influence looms large over all five of the Backstreet Boys — just look at the way Nick Carter anxiously chews through his fingernails on the way over.
- 1/20/2015
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
Cue the screaming girls! The trailer for the long-awaited Backstreet Boys' documentary has been released.
The film chronicles the group's more than 20 years together as brothers in song and dance.
Fans will learn about Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, Aj McLean, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson's formation and early success in Europe before hitting the airwaves in the United States.
Photos: Boy Bands: Then & Now
Aj digs deep into the scandal surrounding corrupt manager Lou Pearlman, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for running a $300 million Ponzi scheme, according to the Associated Press.
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The film chronicles the group's more than 20 years together as brothers in song and dance.
Fans will learn about Brian Littrell, Nick Carter, Aj McLean, Howie Dorough and Kevin Richardson's formation and early success in Europe before hitting the airwaves in the United States.
Photos: Boy Bands: Then & Now
Aj digs deep into the scandal surrounding corrupt manager Lou Pearlman, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for running a $300 million Ponzi scheme, according to the Associated Press.
Copyright 2014 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 12/18/2014
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Backstreet Boys have finally scored legal victory ... snagging the rights to the master recording of one of their biggest songs in a battle that raged on for years.The "Boys" have been battling ex-manager Lou Pearlman's bankruptcy estate ... and it was agreed this week they'd get the masters to some of their songs -- including "I'll Never Break Your Heart."The Boys claimed they were owed nearly $3.5 mil ... but the bankruptcy trustee for Lou's...
- 10/24/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Reality-tv-bred boy band O-Town’s reunion tour was inevitable. The Backstreet Boys did go on tour with New Kids on the Block and 98 Degrees last year ("Nkotbsb"), so in O-Town’s words: It’s all or nothing at all. (And how prophetic are these lyrics: “When you reach the bottom, it’s now or never.") In short, the boys first united on the first season of MTV reality show Making the Band, which was created by Lou Pearlman (the creepy guy who created 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys and is now serving jail time for running a giant Ponzi scheme on the side); if someone familiar with the band could recall just one of their hit songs (“Liquid Dreams,” “All or Nothing,” “Every Six Seconds” — take your pick), they could also probably name one of the members: Ashley Parker Angel. He also happens to be the only member of O-Town not reuniting.
- 4/2/2014
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
This story first appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. "Well, Bernie, I mean, he didn't have anything that really made money," says Lou Pearlman by phone about Wall Street pariah Bernie Madoff, sounding level-headed and upbeat in his first prison interview since his 2009 incarceration in Texas at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana. Pearlman, who launched Justin Timberlake's recording career with 1990s pop sensation 'N Sync and is serving a 25-year prison sentence for masterminding a half-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, wants to make it clear he's not the same
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- 1/22/2014
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
You could be forgiven for rolling your eyes last summer at the news that last summer's flashy pre-fab pop phenomenon One Direction would be releasing a concert documentary this summer.
Forgiven by everyone save their fans, who might pout for suggesting that one summer's boy band craze is the next summer's old news.
But "One Direction: This is Us" still has a popularity wave to ride a full year after "What Makes You're Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young" dominated the airwaves. So stop the eye-rolling.
This film captures the five British lads hand-picked by Simon Cowell to go where NKotB, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync have gone before -- up the charts and into arenas around the world. Caught at their peak, they come off as the clean-cut fulfillment of millions of teen and tweenage girl fantasies.
It's not that different from the Justin Bieber doc,...
Forgiven by everyone save their fans, who might pout for suggesting that one summer's boy band craze is the next summer's old news.
But "One Direction: This is Us" still has a popularity wave to ride a full year after "What Makes You're Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young" dominated the airwaves. So stop the eye-rolling.
This film captures the five British lads hand-picked by Simon Cowell to go where NKotB, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync have gone before -- up the charts and into arenas around the world. Caught at their peak, they come off as the clean-cut fulfillment of millions of teen and tweenage girl fantasies.
It's not that different from the Justin Bieber doc,...
- 8/29/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
New Zach Braff and Spike Lee films have some wondering why the rich and famous turn to crowd-funding websites like Kickstarter
Crowd-funding sites have helped pay fora new video game console, a customizable watch and a copy of Lionel Richie's head, bringing the dreams of many creative individuals to life. They have also become a resource for creative-types who do not fit the struggling artist mold.
Actor and director Zach Braff and the film-makers behind Veronica Mars raised more than $2m for their respective projects this year. Last Saturday, Spike Lee reached his $1.25m goal to fund a new film. Their success has rankled those who believe it is unfair for celebrities who already have the backing of major studios to ask fans to pay for their projects.
Kickstarter, the more popular crowd-funding site for celebrities, said its job is to bring creative projects to life and that these...
Crowd-funding sites have helped pay fora new video game console, a customizable watch and a copy of Lionel Richie's head, bringing the dreams of many creative individuals to life. They have also become a resource for creative-types who do not fit the struggling artist mold.
Actor and director Zach Braff and the film-makers behind Veronica Mars raised more than $2m for their respective projects this year. Last Saturday, Spike Lee reached his $1.25m goal to fund a new film. Their success has rankled those who believe it is unfair for celebrities who already have the backing of major studios to ask fans to pay for their projects.
Kickstarter, the more popular crowd-funding site for celebrities, said its job is to bring creative projects to life and that these...
- 8/20/2013
- by Amanda Holpuch
- The Guardian - Film News
With last year's Nkotbsb tour (that's New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys) still fresh in our minds, we finally might be getting the ’N Sync reunion we really wanted all along. MTV has announced that along with receiving the Video Vanguard Award, Justin Timberlake will be joined onstage by his former bandmates (that's Jc Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick) for a "reunion performance." Whether that's a quick harmonizing of the "Bye Bye Bye" chorus, or putting back on the puppet strings, we cannot tell you, but one thing is for sure: ’N Sync's "sixth member," Lou Pearlman, will not be invited (or released from jail) to the reunion.
- 8/20/2013
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
Skeptics, be silent. Twenty years after Lou Pearlman (who would later be convicted of perpetrating one of the longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history) brought five teenage boys together to form a new boy band, The Backstreet Boys are not only surviving in the music industry -- they’re thriving. With a slew of globally-successful albums to their name in the ‘90s, the early 2000s proved to be a trying time for the group. After the release of their first compilation record, The Hits: Chapter One, tensions among the members bubbled to the surface through a series of events, including
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- 4/24/2013
- by Sophie Schillaci
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The world is finally getting that unflinching documentary about the Backstreet Boys it has until now been so cruelly denied. The film from director Stephen Kijak will be a full-length look at the massively successful boy band, from the group’s inception under Lou Pearlman to its current, not-so-boyish iteration. While the project certainly has the potential to be totally fluffy bullshit, Kijak—who also directed the music documentaries Stones In Exile and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man—insists it won’t be. He tells The Hollywood Reporter that what drew him to the project is the group’s “openness ...
- 2/11/2013
- avclub.com
A long, long time ago, when Carson Daly reigned over Trl and Texas Tuxedos were a valid red carpet choice, casual observers couldn’t be blamed for thinking there were only two major boy bands: the sophisticated, polished Backstreet Boys and their slightly wackier arch-rival, *Nsync. But discerning connoisseurs knew that there was a third option, the Mandy Moore to Backstreet’s Britney and *Nsync’s Christina, if you will, the Vanessa Carlton to their Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne.
I’m talking, of course, about 98 Degrees, a group that stood apart for a variety of reasons. First of all,...
I’m talking, of course, about 98 Degrees, a group that stood apart for a variety of reasons. First of all,...
- 8/17/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
O-Town, 'Nsync make our list of boy bands that should get back together.
By Jocelyn Vena
98 Degrees in 1999
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ Getty Images
It's about to get 98 Degrees and hotter in the boy-band bonanza. Nick Lachey's old group is rumored to be getting back together to launch a summer tour.
Sources tell Rumorfix that the band, which has been on a decade-long hiatus, is about to announce a 15-city trek set to take place in July and August. A formal announcement should be made in the next week. One source told the site that the tour would serve as a thank-you to the band's fans.
Rumors of a reunion kicked off on Wednesday, when the band's website got a face-lift that includes a spanking new logo and a Twitter feed with the guys' official pages scrolling through the homepage. A rep for the band had not responded to MTV...
By Jocelyn Vena
98 Degrees in 1999
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ Getty Images
It's about to get 98 Degrees and hotter in the boy-band bonanza. Nick Lachey's old group is rumored to be getting back together to launch a summer tour.
Sources tell Rumorfix that the band, which has been on a decade-long hiatus, is about to announce a 15-city trek set to take place in July and August. A formal announcement should be made in the next week. One source told the site that the tour would serve as a thank-you to the band's fans.
Rumors of a reunion kicked off on Wednesday, when the band's website got a face-lift that includes a spanking new logo and a Twitter feed with the guys' official pages scrolling through the homepage. A rep for the band had not responded to MTV...
- 3/30/2012
- MTV Music News
MTV has finally signed off on a reunion show for 2Gether. The surviving members of the "boy band" will produce their own show and MTV will then air it. I'm fascinated to see how seriously they take this.
I know this photo spread with the theme "Bros Blowin' Shotties" is about sharing a hit, but it looks so sexy and erotic.
Bret Easton Ellis is writing a screenplay for (straight) porn star James Deen to star in. It's meant to be a non-porn film, but Deen has to act and be full-frontal naked banging girls and guys." This could end up being so bad it's good.
While it's theoretically a good thing that Josh Gad, Rory O'Malley, Michael Potts and Andrew Rannells have extended their contracts with The Book of Mormon through 2013, I'm not sure how that squares with the news that Rannells was cast as the lead in Ryan Murphy's new family show.
I know this photo spread with the theme "Bros Blowin' Shotties" is about sharing a hit, but it looks so sexy and erotic.
Bret Easton Ellis is writing a screenplay for (straight) porn star James Deen to star in. It's meant to be a non-porn film, but Deen has to act and be full-frontal naked banging girls and guys." This could end up being so bad it's good.
While it's theoretically a good thing that Josh Gad, Rory O'Malley, Michael Potts and Andrew Rannells have extended their contracts with The Book of Mormon through 2013, I'm not sure how that squares with the news that Rannells was cast as the lead in Ryan Murphy's new family show.
- 1/24/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Where did American jobs go? Did Drake expect his album to get leaked? And how do you cope with living apart from your spouse? A look at the most interesting posts from the Wall Street Journal blogs.
Where Are the Jobs? A Look Back at Growth Drivers: What’s wrong with the American job engine? The simple answer is that the economy is growing far too slowly to employ the available work force. But there’s a deeper issue going on.
Where Are the Jobs? A Look Back at Growth Drivers: What’s wrong with the American job engine? The simple answer is that the economy is growing far too slowly to employ the available work force. But there’s a deeper issue going on.
- 11/8/2011
- by Christopher John Farley
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Raised in small-town Tennessee, Justin Timberlake is the perfect Southern gentleman. So how does he square being a multiple Grammy-winning singer and an increasingly respected actor with his old-school values? Rachel Cooke digs deep
Most writers, myself included, tend to dislike doing big- star-in-a-ritzy-hotel type interviews. But in the case of Justin Timberlake, the situation brings with it, I must admit, certain advantages. For one thing, the Dorchester has baked special biscuits in the shape of the letters "F", "W" and "B" – to stand for Friends With Benefits, Timberlake's new romcom. Ok, so the icing is a bright swimming-pool blue, which is a little off-putting (later, as I am leaving, Justin himself will pick up a wobbly "W" and, in a slightly incredulous voice, ask: "Is this actually edible?") But, still: free biscuits. For another, it is only fair I admit that the Dorchester's luxuriant pale carpets and mushroom-cloud plumped cushions are,...
Most writers, myself included, tend to dislike doing big- star-in-a-ritzy-hotel type interviews. But in the case of Justin Timberlake, the situation brings with it, I must admit, certain advantages. For one thing, the Dorchester has baked special biscuits in the shape of the letters "F", "W" and "B" – to stand for Friends With Benefits, Timberlake's new romcom. Ok, so the icing is a bright swimming-pool blue, which is a little off-putting (later, as I am leaving, Justin himself will pick up a wobbly "W" and, in a slightly incredulous voice, ask: "Is this actually edible?") But, still: free biscuits. For another, it is only fair I admit that the Dorchester's luxuriant pale carpets and mushroom-cloud plumped cushions are,...
- 9/5/2011
- by Rachel Cooke
- The Guardian - Film News
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