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Inside Lou Pearlman’s Boy Band Ponzi Scheme: ‘Dirty Pop’ Revelations


AJ McLean, Chris Kirkpatrick and other boy banders opened up Lou Pearlman in Netflix’s new docuseries ‘Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam’

Pearlman, who died in 2016 at age 62, was the svengali behind BSB, ‘NSync, O-Town and numerous other boy band and girl groups from the 1990s and early 2000s — but he was eventually exposed as a fraudster who scammed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Netflix’s new docuseries Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, released on Wednesday, July 24, dives deep into the scandal and features interviews from BSB’s AJ McLean and Howie Dorough, ‘NSync’s Chris Kirkpatrick, O-Town’s Erik-Michael Estrada and more. Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of N’SyncJohn Shearer/Getty Images“There were some great bonding moments with Lou, and there’s a part of me, for sure, that’ll always hold a place in my heart of gratefulness to him,” said Dorough, while McLean credited him with giving BSB the push they needed to get started in the music industry.

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