Lou Pearlman Indicted On Five Counts of Fraud

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After his much-publicized capture in Bali and detainment in Guam, boy band impresario Lou Pearlman was finally indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida yesterday. Pearlman is accused of using fake accounting documents to secure millions of dollars in bank loans. Additionally, Florida investigators claim that Pearlman defrauded at least 1,000 independent investors out of more than $315 million; a handful of banks say he owes them more than $120 million. We're thinking these developments move Pearlman up the list of baddest Svengalis ever.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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