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Boy Band Magnate Lou Pearlman Gets Twenty-Five Years in Prison

5/21/08, 12:50 pm EST


Lou Pearlman, the boy band Svengali who helped guide the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSYNC to chart-topping success, was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison today for charges that he bilked investors and banks out of over $300 million dollars. Over two decades, Pearlman convinced investors to dump money into two companies that only existed on paper. Among Pearlman’s victims were “his family, his close friends and people in their 70s and 80s who have lost their life savings.” The sentencing brings to a close the story of Pearlman who, upon learning that federal charges were coming, escaped to Bali, only to be caught last June by Indonesian police.


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Los | 5/21/2008, 1:31 pm EST

He deserves at least 15 years for being partly responsible for the boy-band resurgance of the late 90’s/early 2000’s. That crook deserves the prison raping he’s in for.

joan w. | 5/21/2008, 1:51 pm EST

I can’t brlieve he stole one third of the salary these bands are making… what a monster!

stupid boy bands | 5/21/2008, 2:37 pm EST

well said, Los. This guy is icky. Gross.

Captain Crotch | 5/21/2008, 2:41 pm EST

The authorities should also check to see if this guy ate any Indonesian boys while he was in Bali too.

DeadHorse | 5/21/2008, 3:19 pm EST

Yes, I agree also with Los. He robbed the years in music 1996-2002 and I want them back.

your mom | 5/22/2008, 8:00 am EST

not to be libelous, but that vanity fair article on him also implied that he had a casting couch for his boy bands and may have slept with nick carter. any word on this stuff?

Sanchez | 5/22/2008, 8:51 am EST

I’m stunned how anyone could give five minutes to this butter licking fatso.

Sanchez | 5/22/2008, 8:52 am EST

I’m stunned how anyone could give five minutes to this butter licking fatso.

Anonymous | 5/26/2008, 9:53 am EST

He is from my area in queens

He also had ‘come on’ tho some of the kids in these groups.

He is actually the cousin of Art Garfunkel, still speaks to him on occasion and feels bad for him!

beej | 5/28/2008, 6:23 pm EST

k well hes done.. whats he in his late 40’s early 50’s? 25 years puts him on the close far side of dead.

Rocker | 5/29/2008, 7:57 pm EST

maybe he can find new groups in prison, he does have a brown eye for talent.

Nmxveqwq | 7/13/2009, 8:58 pm EST

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