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POP/ROCK

Morvan Mourns Milli Vanilli Partner: Fabrice Morvan said Monday that the death of his former Milli Vanilli lip-syncing partner Rob Pilatus in a German hotel last week is causing him “tremendous pain and sorrow.” Pilatus, 33, reportedly died Thursday in Frankfurt, apparently after consuming pills and alcohol. (German authorities investigating the death said Monday that they had found no evidence of suicide. Milli Vanilli’s former producer, Frank Farian, said he suspected Pilatus died accidentally from a combination of alcohol and prescription pills he was taking while in a drug-withdrawal program.) “I am feeling tremendous pain and sorrow upon hearing the news of my friend and brother Rob,” Morvan said through a publicist. “He will always be a part of me. We grew up together, struggling, then succeeding. The only thing we wanted was a chance to sing and perform. Milli Vanilli was not a disgrace. The only disgrace is how Rob died . . . all alone, internally destroyed from the rapid rise then sudden fall.” In 1990, Pilatus and Morvan were stripped of the Grammy they had won the year before when it was disclosed that neither sang a note on their hit album “Girl You Know It’s True.” Pilatus, who lived in West Hollywood, had been in and out of trouble with the law since, and had been fighting drug addiction. VH1 will air a tribute to Pilatus tonight at 9.

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A Lolla-less ‘98: After a seven-year run featuring such essential ‘90s rock acts as Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and Prodigy, Lollapalooza is taking a year off, organizers confirmed Monday. After the breakup of the reformed Jane’s Addiction--which had been expected to headline this year, as it had during the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991--a suitable replacement proved elusive. Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Korn and Garbage were among the acts that turned down offers to appear, leading Ted Gardner (who co-founded the tour with Jane’s Addiction leader Perry Farrell and agents Marc Geiger and Don Muller) and the supervising William Morris Agency to pull the plug. A representative of Gardner’s office said that the organizers hope to revive the tour next year.

TELEVISION

Life after ‘Seinfeld’: Jerry Seinfeld already is looking at life after “Seinfeld,” which has its finale May 14. The comic-actor tells Vanity Fair that he plans to start a boutique advertising agency. Seinfeld writes his commercials for American Express and loves advertising. More immediately he will take his stand-up act to Iceland, Australia, Sweden and Scotland, winding up in New York in August, where he plans to tape his show on Broadway for an HBO special, “I’m Telling You for the Last Time.” The article in the May issue also says Seinfeld is thinking about having a talk show in the next few years. Seinfeld will appear on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” on the night of the “Seinfeld” finale.

MUSIC

Gheorghiu, Alagna Out of ‘La Traviata’: Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu and her husband, the French-Sicilian tenor Roberto Alagna, currently completing a successful engagement in Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, have been dropped from the Met’s fall production of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” In a dispute with Met General Manager Joseph Volpe over creative control--the stars were holding out for design and staging approval--Gheorghiu and Alagna missed a deadline for signing their contracts last week and were removed from the production. The couple is still scheduled to return to the Met jointly in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” next season and in Puccini’s “La Boheme” in the 2000-01 season.

QUICK TAKES

ABC has secured an exclusive, two-year development deal with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. The scope of the deal calls for Scorsese--director of “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull” and “Good-Fellas”--to develop and produce a 13-episode series as well as a limited series or miniseries for the network. . . . The Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to the radio tonight at 8, beginning a 13-week concert series on station KKGO-FM (105.1) with the program that began the 1997-98 season in October. . . . CBS has pulled “Cybill” from its schedule, and the series is not expected to return. The network will fill the Wednesday void for the next two weeks with reruns of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The Nanny.” . . . Berlin remembered conductor Herbert von Karajan on Sunday on what would have been his 90th birthday, naming a street after the maestro who led the city’s philharmonic orchestra for nearly 35 years. . . . MTV Networks will launch a customized MTV for Russia later this year that will reach more than 10 million households. . . . Michael Jackson’s wife, Debbie Rowe Jackson, gave birth Friday to the couple’s daughter, Paris Michael Katherine, at Spaulding Pain Medical Clinic in Beverly Hills. . . . “Titanic,” Hanson and Will Smith were among the winners at Nickelodeon’s 11th annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” show Saturday at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.