What Happened to Lou Pearlman, the Disgraced Boy Band Manager?

Netflix's new three-part docuseries, Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, examines the rise and fall of the late Lou Pearlman, a music manager who created – and then exploited – some of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s, including Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, O-Town and LFO. By 2006, he was accused of running a industry scam that at one point had $300 million in debts. He fled the country, was captured, and sent to prison in 2008.

In 1997, Brian Littrell from the Back Street Boys sued him, asking why the band had only received around $12,000 a year while Pearlman had raked in millions of dollars. A year later the rest of the band joined the litigation,at which point they discovered that Pearlman was credited as a sixth member of the band. The lawsuit was settled, but Pearlman retained a portion of the brand's future revenues and carried on with the exploitative financial treatment of his other groups.

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