Lou Pearlman
Birthday: Born in 1954-06-19 in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 2016-08-19
Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman was an American music manager and convicted felon. He was the person behind many successful 1990s boy bands, including the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. In 2008, Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history; he died in federal custody.
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Forensic Justice
Character: Self (archive footage)
Expert analysis and dramatic storytelling of recent crime stories....
Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam
Character: Self (archive footage)
Backstreet Boys. NSYNC. Lou Pearlman created the biggest boy bands of the '90s — and one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history....
Making the Band
Character: Self
Making the Band is an ABC/MTV reality television series that exists in separate iterations, each iteration focusing on a specific music act. It spawned musical acts O-Town, Da Band, Danity Kane, Day26, and Donnie Klang. Except for the first iteration of the series featuring O-Town, all seasons of Making the Band have been overseen by Diddy, acting as the man of the house who makes the final decision on who will be in the band....
20/20
Character: Self (archive footage)
20/20 is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge, the show was designed similarly to CBS's 60 Minutes but focuses more on human interest stories than international and political subjects. The program's name derives from the "20/20" measurement of visual acuity. The hour-long program has been a staple on Friday evenings for much of the time since it moved to that timeslot from Thursdays in September 1987, ...
Boy Band Confidential: A Hollywood Demons Event
Character: Self (archive footage)
NSYNC's Joey Fatone exposes the secret machinery behind manufactured superstardom — and its devastating human cost. Candid interviews with artists from Boyz II Men, 98 Degrees, and others reveal the darker realities of power struggles and exploitation....
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Inside Monkey Zetterland
Character: Warden / Observation Psychiatrist
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay....
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
The life and crimes of boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. The film tracks his life from discovering NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, to his perpetration of one of the largest ponzi schemes in US history....
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Character: Captain Lewis
A powerful businessman blackmails a fitness instructor in order to gain inside information on the stock market....
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Character: Self (archive footage)
Highlights boy bands and their rise — and fall — to fame, from The Beatles to Jackson 5 to the Jonas Brothers and One Direction, as well as the K-pop group Seventeen....