Behind The Band

Lou Pearlman is the man responsible for groups like the Backstreet Boys, *N Sync and just about every musical boy act you can think of. Pearlman loves him some young boys. According to interviews with his former associates, he loves them a little too well. Page Six says:

Steve Mooney said he once asked Pearlman, who was known as “Big Poppa,” what it would take for him to get into a band. “I’ll never forget this as long as I live. He leaned back in his chair, in his white terry cloth robe and white underwear, and spread his legs,” Mooney told Burrough. “And then he said, and these were his exact words, ‘You’re a smart boy. Figure it out.’ ” Mooney added that a singer groped by Pearlman told him, “Look, if a guy wants to massage me, and I’m getting a million dollars for it, you just go along with it. It’s the price you got to pay.”

Tim Christofore, a member of Take 5, recalls that during a sleepover at Pearlman’s house, the music czar swan-dived onto his and another boy’s bed and wrestled with them wearing only in a towel, which came off. “We were like, ‘Ooh, Lou, that’s gross.’ What did I know? I was 13,” Christofore told Vanity Fair.

Who could have guessed that there’s such a seedy underbelly to the business of exploiting young boys? In this case, a fat, sweaty underbelly barely covered by a bath towel.

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