Episode 9: Lou Pearlman (Back Street Boy and NSYNC Defrauder)
Controversial Figures
English - August 09, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBTrue Crime News Entertainment News true crime controversy controversial hacker news media entertainment psychology security politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
American business man Lou Pearlman created some of the biggest boy bands in the 1990s, including NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, O Town, and LFO to name a few. Lou even called himself the 6th Backstreet Boy. These bands were performing to sold out concerts while selling merch and hundreds of millions of albums to screaming fans around the world.
It was estimated that Lou Pearlman's peak net worth was $300 million during the boy band craze era in the 1990s and early 2000s. So how did Lou end up $300 million dollars in debt in 2006 and sentenced to 25 years of prison in 2008? Find out this and lots of other random boy band trivia today on the Controversial Figures Podcast.
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