Music
Lou Pearlman, the disgraced music impresario who launched the Backstreet Boys, NSync and other boy bands in the 1990s before being convicted in a Ponzi scheme, has died at 62, according to the prison where Pearlman was serving a 25-year sentence.
Aug. 20, 2016
Movies
It may be an all-too-familiar refrain — trusted music manager rips off his clients — but “The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story” sets it in the broader, more intriguing context of the age-old pursuit of those twin trappings, fame and fortune.
March 26, 2019
’N Sync had been together three years before its members were presented their first paychecks.
April 3, 2019
World & Nation
Lou Pearlman, the former boy band promoter and entrepreneur turned federal inmate, has taken another career turn: police informant.
July 31, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million.
July 17, 2008
Youth-pop mogul Lou Pearlman, wanted on bank fraud charges in Florida, appeared Friday before a federal judge in Hagatna, Guam, but the proceeding was halted when the former fugitive refused to answer questions regarding his financial assets.
June 16, 2007
Music mogul Lou Pearlman has agreed to return to Florida from Guam, where he is being held on fraud charges.
June 19, 2007
The creator of the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he laundered money and made false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding.
March 5, 2008
Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman is losing his lakefront home in Orlando, Fla., and a New Jersey condominium in bankruptcy proceedings, as he faces separate federal charges of defrauding a bank out of $20 million.
Sept. 8, 2007
A former boy-band mogul pleaded guilty Thursday to an audacious fraud that used fake accountants, fake bank accounts and a dead man’s signature to swindle banks and investors out of more than $300 million.
March 7, 2008