AJ McLean, Chris Kirkpatrick and other boy banders opened up Lou Pearlman in Netflix’s new docuseries ‘Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam’
The story of boy bands like the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync can’t be told without mentioning the late Lou Pearlman, but his influence was a mixed blessing for the musicians in his orbit.
Keep scrolling for the biggest revelations from Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, now streaming on Netflix:According to McLean, he and the Backstreet boys rehearsed in “Lou’s gondola hangar for blimps,” which he used for his Airship International business. The “godawful” space wasn’t set up to be a rehearsal studio, with no A/C and a makeshift stage that left the guys with splinters.
Estrada, who joined O-Town after BSB and 'NSync had already started their highly publicized legal battles with Pearlman, said he and his bandmates were wary of their new manager but still thought he had the golden ticket to success. “I’d be lying if I said that there wasn’t massive concern from us at the time, but when are we getting an opportunity like this?” Estrada said. “We saw all of these accouterments of success everywhere, and so were just like, ‘This could be ours soon.
But Mason soured on Pearlman when he didn’t get paid for his work. “I had a contingency contract, which means that if we win an amount of money, I'm getting a percentage of it,” Mason explained. “Of the approximate $64 million that we settled on that would be owed to Mr. Pearlman, I was entitled to close to $16 million of that as our fees, and it never happened. So I was like, ‘Well, Lou, you haven’t paid me — I’m gonna sue your ass.
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