lou perlman, assistant to Maurice Starr, music impresario and the REAL founder of the boy band craze, dies in prison for a ponzi scheme he got convicted of

Lou Perlman a crook extraordinaire died in prison. The press here in America gave him a white man naturally credit for the boy band craze that took over the music scene in the late 80's and the 90's and really he was assistant to the real man who started the boy band craze with legendary superboy band New Edition, a one Maurice Starr, also the creator of the New Kids on the Block! Lou Perlaman studied under this black brutha and learned the music biz' game from him then took off on his own.  Typical; they learn all the tricks and figure they can do it then and don't need you anymore. That's why I encourage other cultures quit allowing these people to come in, learn everything about what you do then they venture out to try an sell your own culture back to you. Eitherway, Maurice Starr is the real progenitor of the boy band craze and lou perlman was his UNDERSTUDY! He evidently didn't learn the music  biz game well enough being he got himself thrown in jail for participating in some underhanded criminal scheme! Maurice Starr made all of his money from doing LEGITIMATE business in the music business so lou was a very bad understudy. Here's the story:

Disgraced boy band founder dead at 62

By Page Six Team

August 21, 2016 | 11:35am

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Lou Perlman Photo: FilmMagic

Disgraced music producer Lou Pearlman, the founder of some of the country’s most successful boy bands, including *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, has died in prison at 62.

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Lou Perlman with NSYNC in 1996.Photo: WireImage

He’d been serving 25 years for masterminding a huge Ponzi scheme that swindled 1,700 victims out of $300 million.
Things began to go wrong for the man known as “Big Poppa’’ in 2000, when the Backstreet Boys sued him over their contract, People magazine said.
The band complained it got $300,000, while Pearlman made millions.
In 2007, Pearlman was the subject of a Vanity Fair exposé that contained molestation and sexual-harassment allegations from several former or aspiring singers. He denied the claims.
But what sent him to the slammer was a scam in which he persuaded people to invest in nonexistent corporations.
“He might not have been a stand-up businessman,’’ tweeted former *NSYNC member Lance Bass. “But I wouldn’t be doing what I love today without his influence. RIP.’’

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