Hell, even his lawyer had to sue him for money not received.

he even looks like he's a character playing the part of a creep scammer but he's a real person. can you imagine being harrassed by that thing in the 90's. i am so sorry to the girl that it definitely happened to.

@Coolestnoob13

4 жыл бұрын

@That thing💀💀💀💀💀

@ZENSIBLE

4 жыл бұрын

Girl? He's into Boys can't you see it 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@miracleworker2437

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZENSIBLE probably both! he was greedy in every way!!!

@sarahalbers5555

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZENSIBLE He totally was Disgusting pos!

@mysteriousme3006

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I got respect for that Lance Bass kid, he's gone through a lot. I know he's a grown man now, hell, he's my age, but still. What a wild ride life has taken him on thus far.

Lou Pearlman was music’s Harvey Weinstein.

@junkboy555

4 жыл бұрын

Tiffany F. No, I honestly believe he at least attempted to, if not actually, groom or molest those guys who worked for him, on top of him being an absolute fraud.

@leaheikeland

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinjohnston4923 huh???

@9pathNick

4 жыл бұрын

s marz if you find the docu link me to it please!

@TrainTransportShortsOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

Musics fat ass

@theb3al2d13

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Johnston fucking anti Semitic piece of shit

He was making so much money that you know he never missed a meal.

This stuff still goes on today

@marie_84

3 жыл бұрын

That was typical 90's: The moms or dads managing their kid. Beyonces dad was her manager & destiniy's child manager. That was the NORMAL. Otherwise IT HAPPENS TIL THIS DAY: BILLY EILISH'S MANAGER IS HER MOM!! & her brother is her businessparter who writes her songs!! Now that's gonna be funny one day when she has to fight against BOTH family members! That's gonna be ugly!! 😲😲😲😲😲😲

@joan6096

2 жыл бұрын

The IRS uses snail main and their site. You’re bank calls you from the number you have the saved as! Be careful with robo calls!

This is crazy I remember watching the making of the band O-Town on TV.

Not unusual...music industry is shady as hell. Bands are often given huge advances, go on tour end up owing money.

@tekkenfan01

4 жыл бұрын

Stop trying to sound so smart by taking their news

@mankokennewick5802

4 жыл бұрын

@@tekkenfan01 whatever that means

@tekkenfan01

4 жыл бұрын

Manko Kennewick don't play dumb

@mankokennewick5802

4 жыл бұрын

@@tekkenfan01 sorry dude, I'm still not following. Guess I am dumb...."taking their news"....?

@tekkenfan01

4 жыл бұрын

Manko Kennewick you will understand eventually

Same thing happened to TLC, only they reported that pretty much right after the girls were kicked out/left.

Every. Single. Time. What's really amazing is how many people are still in denial about this.

Thank you for posting the video.

Lou Pearlman Looks exactly like the character who took Woody at the yard sale on Toy story! 😂

@vhaycraft9365

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I was trying to figure out who he reminded me of!

lance is so fricking cute! always was my favorite he did such a great job with the documentary :D

Am so glad this 20/20 aired. Talyor Swift at her Billboard speech make it sound like only women get screwed finically in this business. The music along with the rest of the entertainment business doesn't discriminate against man, women, teenagers, children, race, sexual preference etc as long as received the vast majority of the profits.

This is why you do not have momagers. They needed real management and attorneys read everything and don't sign if it's not good for you!

@tysilents9143

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@FOxXyYgRaMpA

4 жыл бұрын

They signed the contract. Know everything about a contract before you sign it. After the fact is nothing but your own fault. Something I was taught in audio school, it’s not the music friends. It’s the music business

@JamesAllmond

4 жыл бұрын

a-freaking-men! But a kid reading a contract is a waste of time, where were their parents and others who should have been looking out for them? 18 to 20 years olds can read a contract, sign a contract, but understand it? Doubtful.

@ApexNYC

4 жыл бұрын

If you are signing a record deal you BETTER get a lawyer.There is a short form contract and then a LONG form contract with TONS of legal jargon.The entertainment lawyer has to run the long form(100s of pages long) through software to look for ANY hidden languge/keywords and then READ it themselves to PROTECT YOU.

@marie_84

3 жыл бұрын

That was typical 90's: The moms or dads managing their kid. Beyonces dad was her manager & destiniy's child manager. That was the NORMAL. Otherwise IT HAPPENS TIL THIS DAY: BILLY EILISH'S MANAGER IS HER MOM!! & her brother is her businessparter who writes her songs!! Now that's gonna be funny one day when she has to fight against BOTH family members! That's gonna be ugly!! 😲😲😲😲😲😲

This is the Music Business industry for you. New Edition, NWA, and the best goes on.

Puzzling how Millionaires want MORE & MORE & MORE. I'm a truck driver. Give me just ONE million & I'd be set for life.

@asuraXTC

4 жыл бұрын

capshockey1989 slow your role internet nazi

@PhedXMan7

4 жыл бұрын

Greed begets greed. Its never enough.

@motomatt4266

4 жыл бұрын

When you have enough money to never have to worry about money again, life gets boring. It’s all about the game at that point.

@JM-fo1te

4 жыл бұрын

*Jews

@Frankishsaxon89

4 жыл бұрын

Micquan Dawson the Nazis don’t have a monopoly on naming them.

He took the 💸 & ran !

@travesswolford2835

4 жыл бұрын

David Ellis that lard ass has never ran a single time in his life

@davidellis5141

4 жыл бұрын

@@travesswolford2835 🚶

@freedomfries6618

4 жыл бұрын

Waddled.

@wturner777

4 жыл бұрын

@@travesswolford2835 Ikr?! He drove and flew! 🤣🤣🤣

*People like him should never own a boy band and scam thier money!*

OF COURSE HES A JEW

Well I learned something new today.

Man I always thought that in the beginning these guys must of been rolling in money, but hearing lance say “I couldn’t even afford a apartment or car in the 2000” is man bad

why talk about this now? it's been out there for some time

@stephc3874

4 жыл бұрын

Trapped In Time I didn’t know. Some of us have never heard of this. We’re in our late teens early 20’s.

@Papa-Squat

4 жыл бұрын

When has ABC ever reported on anything important or note worthy

@trappedintime8273

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephc3874 what late teen and early twenties is going to want to sit through this on television with fucking commercials when there's easy access to things like KZread where this information was readily available years ago.

@jerry85g7

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephc3874 Well you are stupid

@jefryt67

4 жыл бұрын

Takes viewers minds off the real issues. I guarantee abc execs know what happened to Epstein.

That was quite the story on 20/20 last night. I had no idea about this guy. Or that Lance Bass is now a filmmaker

Unfortunately for those that just stream, won't see the end of this documentary as I NEVER saw the end of the documentaries posted on 20/20...😠

@mishabear703

4 жыл бұрын

they hav on here for all viewers on youtube now kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZd3tNVpecaZdqw.html

@lasenoritacometa1977

4 жыл бұрын

Misha Bear thanks a lot 😘

The nsync boys only got 10 thousand bucks after their first album released and it went platinum

Philip Seymour Hoffman would of been an excellent Lou pearlman

Okay and? Malcolm McLaren did the same with the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, and he even made a movie about him doing it called The Great Rock N Roll Swindle

@davidellis5141

4 жыл бұрын

" Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated " ! No Fun 🎶

@cesarhernandez769

4 жыл бұрын

David Ellis OMG YES!!!

@ShyGuy83

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened with TLC back in the mid 90s when 80s pop singer Pebbles was their manager, and even in the early 80s with New Edition and Maurice Starr.

I was in Garmany at that time wow 🤗😀

I’m glad they played “It’s Gonna Be Me”, I was hoping so cause that’s a good song!

I enjoyed this mini 90s MTV reunion.

We need this movie

George Steponapolas looked so pleased to tell this story at the beginning. He’s like “Why am I here?” 😆

He wanted it that way step by step til he got to the end of the road.

@longdirtytoenails1076

4 жыл бұрын

Toya Mettz That last one was Boyz 2 Men.

@toyamettz3965

4 жыл бұрын

@@longdirtytoenails1076 lol I'm glad someone figured that out.

@longdirtytoenails1076

4 жыл бұрын

Toya Mettz lolol

@erniesimms7425

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I'm reporting this 😂

Justin Timberlake has had the power to call this guy out for years and he didn’t because he didn’t want to upset the Apple cart

@idolfun1454

3 жыл бұрын

MrShanester117 what's apple cart?

NEVER WAS A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL, NEVER LIKED THOSE BANDS, BUT HATE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY CHEATING FRAUDS WHO ABUSE ARTISTS: THE PATTERN IS OBVIOUS.

@HelicopterHatHacker

4 жыл бұрын

THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK

There is a KZread show about this, a couple years ago. Way to be on top of breaking news ABC.

I think Joni Mitchell said it the best when she said "The bigger the money the bigger the BS" What is hilarious is I found in a dollar store once a bin full of ill-fated boy band cd's that never made it big. The band names where like Cupid's Arrow and such with the requisite kiss(ey) faces/duck lips on the covers and such. Totally hilarious. You know these guys were promised that they were gonna be huge like InSync and such.

George loved him in the nineties!

Dang that's messed up

I was too young to be into boy bands but now I'm like 😮😲😳🤯

Smh...What a crook!!! They need to create laws to protect young musicians. Really messed up!!!

@ZENSIBLE

4 жыл бұрын

Eeemmm none of them are Musicians AT ALL!

@Keznen

4 жыл бұрын

Even if they did create new laws here, it wouldn't fix the problem completely. The darkness in the entertainment industry is not confined to Hollywood.

Musicians should get a good lawyer BEFORE signing a contract

@barbarabueno81

4 жыл бұрын

But when you are no one and a kid and your parents don't know a thing, you don't know that!

@healinggrounds19

4 жыл бұрын

And GOOD lawyers are very expensive. Young musicians have little money.

@christophersmith8486

4 жыл бұрын

Watch the documentary. The lawyers said “don’t sign” and they signed

@tysilents9143

4 жыл бұрын

I just said that I totally agree

@tysilents9143

4 жыл бұрын

@@barbarabueno81 that's not it all they see is a advance and get stupid once they get that advance check

That's life kiddos... READ THE FINE PRINT!!!!!

I can remember Chris Connelly from MTV 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾✊️🏾

@AvecPoesie

4 жыл бұрын

Those were the good old days...Kurt Loder, Serena Altschul, Dave Holmes, even Bill Bellamy hosting MTV Jams. I miss that time.

Probably the same exact person on charge of a kpop boy band since history only repeats itself

Weird i remeber someone just talking about this

Pearlman’s crashed blimp was worth thousands but he had it insured for millions.

i have all bsb songs in my fon from their 1st to the newest album

I love how they only mentioned Backstreet and Nsync by name and none of the others, like O-Town. ABC actualy produced a show called "Making the Band" about the creation of O-Town, which of course Lou was all over...but there is zero mention of that here. I feel for all these guys who put in so much hard work only to get cleaned out by this failure of a human being. I think they are building a new circle in Hell just for Lou.

@sabrinaleake3034

Жыл бұрын

It's because the 2 bands were the most well known and he probably took the most from them

This seems like perfect film project for someone like Adam McKay

Nsync is favorite music 🎶 🎵 and like boy bands songs too.

lance bass looks so good!!

I was shocked when this happened, because I even went to the 'Nsync concert before this happened. I still like the backstreet boys and 'Nsync but that incident made 'Nsync break up and Justin go solo.

I saw this on American Greed YEARS AGO.

Lol every little thing I do. Never seems enough for Lou. 😂

Watching Chris Connelly talk about Backstreet Boys and Nsync takes me back to when he used to work at MTV and was on TRL especially. Good times!

Damn...

“Pop to prison” is hilarious 😂

Scrolling for someone to connect Pearlman and the word “blimp”....

@swampcrotchmcgee1728

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

What do you think these so called reality shows on TV do like American Idol or The Voice. You basically have to sign away your rights if you want on these shows. It took Kelly Clarkson decades to become a "FREE AGENT". Meaning she can now control what she records.

@lg316

4 жыл бұрын

Decades? It hasn't even been two decades since she was on American Idol

@dfa3366

4 жыл бұрын

LG most of 2000s and most of 2010s. Not quite 20 yrs but more like 17/18 years. But you get my drift. Clarkson’s current album is the first one she had complete control.

*South Park made fun of this dude in the year 2000... season 4.... ABC waits 2 decades....*

@stephanierobbins4297

4 жыл бұрын

Of course they dont want to tell this story. Back in the very early 2000s ABC did a show with Lou Pearlman where there was a competition to be in a boy band. The band ended up being called OTown and they did not really go anywhere.

@Denzel_Watchington

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephanierobbins4297 I bet the managers pockets got filled up though... just like ABC... it's funny that they advertise for Democrats with the idea that big business needs to be taxed more... but ABC is about as big as they get.. along with Google and KZread. They push the liberal agenda but supposedly it "hurts their pockets"... it's funny how they'll do anything to protect their interests, but claim they're for the opposite. It's so obvious. I wish more people noticed.

This whole thing reminds me of that american dad episode where snot’s uncle forms B12

So pretty much they got the same treatment that New Edition got.

One of those stories that makes it seem like it’s 2012 again

Lou is so handsome

That’s crazy

he was a good hawwg beast you can see it in his jowls

Lance looks great

One of the stations puts the same story out every year it’s been like twenty years, we get it.

Say what u want, dudes a genius.

@Lil_Angry_Bitch

2 жыл бұрын

An evil genius. He used his powers for evil instead of good.

It serves Lou right!

He turned a guy I know personally into a heroin addict. He got a record deal and a fat check. Then he just started doing heroin and didn't go anywhere except down the shiter. Jason Broom of Skywater. 145 was their biggest hit. Befor he met that guy.

Now yall know what 18% out of 100% of slavery feels like.

Haha he had a Keen eye for casting huh....

Lou has always given me the creeps. There was and is just something about him. What a scuzbucket!

Ive been keeping up with the Aaron Carter drama as well

do why ABC covered for jeffrey Epstein next..

Look into the history of the band Bandfinger same thing and this was in the 70s 2 of the band members killed themselves over what happened to them this story is very sad ....check it out on KZread.

So where is he now? Has he been arrested?

this is happening everywhere

Sounds about right...

The White Suge Knight basically, DaBaby should make a song call Pearlman.

@stephaniecoss3967

4 жыл бұрын

Ricky D 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀

This seems like a movie that Jonah hill will star in as the Ron pearl man dude

How can people just sign these contracts without lawyers they trust?

@Lil_Angry_Bitch

2 жыл бұрын

They are eager for fortune and fame, they are young an naive and these predators know this and prey on them. Here's an example of what you are talking about: The 90s girl group TLC had a original member named Crystal. After she and her mother read the contract, they realised how bogus it was & how screwed over she would be. She refused to sign the contract and they replaced her with another girl, Chilli. After hitting it big, TLC were broke and completely screwed over, even though they had sold millions of records. After some lawsuits and restructuring their management, TLC eventually started earning Millions. So yes, TLC did get screwed at first for signing bad contracts, but they eventually got out of their hole. Meanwhile Crystal didn't get screwed from the contract however she didn't get to experience the fame and fortune that the other TLC members did.

I literally had no clue 😧

Guy is like a GTA baddie lol.

3:35 uh uh 😮😮

The music don king

I dont know why but I see Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder.

Read the book The Fat Man Sings for the whole story.

Damn, I mean I knew the music industry could be shady but damn...

BSB!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I'm your summer time lover, summer time lover, give me one chance, I'll treat you like a princess. Get up, get up, get up.

The truth will always come out eventually.

What about TAKE 5?

And this STILL HAPPENS TODAY!!! In the kpop industry, these huge entertainment companies such as YG Entertainment, they make contracts with the stars and limit A LOT of their rights and freedom once that contract is signed. They force them into surgery, and later mistreated. Apparently, there’s also prostitution going on in that industry too. To get your name out there, the entertainment company wants and makes the singer create a solo song to help promote them etc. and often, the managers would not release the song unless they get a “favor” in return. A few days ago, an article just said how two HUGE artists G-DRAGON and TAEYANG who are under contract with YG need to renew their contracts of else they will get sued so they lose their rights to their artist name. The whole kpop industry has a whole other dark side to it that many people don’t know about because they enjoy the artist for their music and for who they are but little do they know... the amount of exploitation in that industry is insane.

@draculwarmz96

4 жыл бұрын

Don't exaggerate nonsense. Today K-pop artist have to be free from surgery is a must as many people demands their their own celebrities with natural facial features. Also they have millions of earning in their own bank account. K-pop artist before 2012 were bad but now it has improved, the more popular they become. The rookie boybands are still treated badly although better than before

So this was like the stay at home dad era

Dave Holmes is HOT!!!

If you are signing a record deal/pub deal you BETTER get a lawyer.There is a short form contract and then a LONG form contract with TONS of legal jargon.The entertainment lawyer has to run the long form(100s of pages long) through software to look for ANY hidden language/keywords and then READ it themselves to PROTECT YOU.