what we've always suspected, but hoped wasn't true

[mickeym]

By way of trumpeterofdoom I wish I could say thanks, but:

Pearlman Preyed On Young Men

Boy band svengali LOU PEARLMAN has been branded a "pervy paedophile" who took advantage of BACKSTREET BOYS singer NICK CARTER, by the manager's former assistant. Steve Mooney claims the 53-year-old - who has managed both the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync - preyed on the young men, including Carter, 27. Mooney tells Vanity Fair, "I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lou's game was." Phoenix Stone, an early member of the Backstreet Boys and Carter's mother Jane, have both backed up the claims. Jane Carter says, "Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers... tried to expose him for what he was years ago." Pearlman is currently awaiting trial on bank fraud charges in a Florida jail. A spokesman for Pearlman was unavailable for comment.



Sleazeball Behind Boybands

October 2, 2007 -- LOU Pearlman - the hog-fat, boy-band honcho who created *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and launched the careers of Justin Timberlake and Nick Carter - was a pervy pedophile who preyed on the young men he mentored, Vanity Fair reports.

"I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lou's game was," Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who was Pearlman's assistant, told VF's Bryan Burrough. "Some guys joked about it. I remember [one singer] asking me, 'Have you let Lou [fellate] you yet?' "

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."

Phoenix Stone, an early member of the Backstreet Boys, tells Vanity Fair Pearlman was "definitely inappropriate" with Nick Carter. Nick's mom, Jane Carter, wouldn't get into specifics, but said, "Certain things happened and it almost destroyed our family. I tried to warn everyone. I tried to warn all the mothers . . . I tried to expose him for what he was years ago."

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.

Rich Cronin, lead singer of LFO, recalled Pearlman told him of an "ancient massage technique that if I massage you and we bond in a certain way, it will strengthen your aura."

Pearlman, 53, is in a Florida jail awaiting trial on bank fraud charges. Prosecutors say he scammed more than 1,000 investors out of $315 million. He'd been a fugitive until June when he was busted in Indonesia, living under a fake name. His lawyer did not return calls from Page Six.

Comments

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I feel like vomitting.

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

*shudders*

My stomach started rolling when I read the title. I felt worse the more I read it. I think I'm going to sick.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

Ick ick ick ick ick.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

That is really, really depressing. And disgusting. And, as you said, sadly not a surprise.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm still all O_O. It's one thing to wonder, to suspect...and then to know. I really want to give Nick, in particular, a big hug.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I feel so bad for Nick, in particular, and just disgusted by Jane Carter.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[kaelie.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, I guess there's no huge surprise here, but still. ICK.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

I know, right? And that's the worst part, I think. That it's NOT a surprise. I know why so many victims stay quiet, but it's really disturbing that Jane Carter appears to have known what was going on and DID NOTHING ("telling people" doesn't really count, if she didn't notify the authorities)...and then went ahead and turned over her youngest son to him.

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And like I said to Shell, up above, the worst of it all is Jane's role in all this. She took no action, and then sacrificed Aaron to him, too, and GOD. That makes me just as angry (moreso, really).

[phaballa.livejournal.com]

I want to let Nick beat the shit out of Lou, actually. I think that would make everyone feel better.

[turlough]

That's the thing that makes me feel the most sick of all this. Almost enough to make me hope that she's lying and that she didn't know what was going on. Almost.

[splifford.livejournal.com]

Can we get a show of hands from the people who are surprised by this?

::waits::

::looks around::

::notices complete lack of hands::

Yup. That's what I thought.

YUCK!

[musiclover03.livejournal.com]

I was watching E News yesterday and they said something about a story involving Lou--- i guess this was it. Just...*shivers* no. Lance has a book coming out this month--I wonder if there will be anything about Lou in there in regards to this? I'm wondering if anything occured with Lance or Justin.
Lynn would definitely rip off his balls make him eat them..

I remember Chris talking about Lou back in the beginning of the year during a promo radio visit-and he along with jeff and rich talked about Lou and how he was a perv. At one point the interviewer goes "Did he ever come on to you?" and Chris starts talking about that
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At 00:41:25 of this interview, the interviewer starts off the issue with "Did he ever come on to you Chris?" and they start talking about it. Chris was like yeah some of this stuff is creepy but he's looking out for us. Jeff was trying to get into Transcon and they were talking about him doing a underwear ad.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yxgkpj

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

He's a sick fucker. Jail is the perfect place for him. I'm sure all the guy's are pleased to see karma at work.

[elucidate-this.livejournal.com]

there aren't words.

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

I hope that he is in the worst prison ever and gets treated like a bitch and gets beat up and his nuts get burned off!! Fucking sleazy jerk. Ugh. I want to meet him so I can spit in his face.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

That fucker. And you know what? Jane probably did more damage by not getting Nick out than Lou did.

*spits tacks*

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I wish Nick could/would sue her or something.

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

that is horrifying and sickening.

but even more horrifing if nick carter's mother KNEW and did not pull him out fo the band and go to the police. *shudder*

and if she DID tell the other moms and they still let their kids work with him, wtf?????

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

I hate knowing it was really true.

[nopseud]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! Ack! Add me to the 'not in the least surprised, but still wanting to bleach my brain' count. Just goes to show what you can get away with if you have enough money and power.

Also, there is not enough WTF in the world to describe Jane Carter. No, seriously. What, she tried to warn everyone via the cunning tactic of leaving Nick with Lou and then handing over *another* of her kids to him as well?

[noiselessmind.livejournal.com]

YAAAGH! This is the first time I hear about this. ( I live in Finland and hardly watch any tv shows about these kind of news...so....)

BUT OH GOD !!!! and WTF? How hypocrite can that woman be!! "Warning" everybody and then leaving her children still on the line of fire... Yeah...money talks.... (I feel so sick!)

Real life is cruel and once again I'm reminded of that and ..... ;(

I hope they cut his ***** off!!!! ******* pedohpiles!