New Report: Boy Band Guru A Predatory Pedophile

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.' "

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Comments

[AbbieX]

Gay does not equate to Pervert. This guy is a pedophile and pervert. Clearly he is not gay or he would be in a committed long term relationship with a man, which he is not.

[GoodWillHumping]

and you guys wonder how he came up with the name "O-town"?
Open wide.

Sad stuff, but no surprise here.

[okAcomputer]

did he go to divinity school?

[SNS]

Everytime I make fun of someone like Justin Timberlake I always stop and consider this. It all fits.

[serialcoma]

If rush limbaugh and karl rove had a baby.....

[sfbaypaladin]

Hilarious! So true!

[drblack]

He must be a neoCON republican.

[sa]

maybe he just has a wide stance.

[flatus]

Maybe they chose the name "NSync" because "BoysWillingToBlowForFameAndMoney" was already taken?

[CommonSenseMan]

I read the blurb and then I started reading the comments here where people were calling this guy a Republican and making it some partisan political issue. So, I followed the link to the other story and still no mention of this guy's political leanings.

Do people here really know his political affiliation or is this just more Huff-Po knee-jerk rah-rah-rah Democrat crap?

[jezuzhchryst]

Umm .... is that why the right wingers always call liberals commie-pinko-fags?? just wondering ....?? Maybe common sense and hypocrite have the same meaning too ... I will look it up for you ..... Man~

[foofighter]

'"knock me over with feather" is hate speech? Wow. I need to get out more.

BIGOTS!!!!!!'

The comment I was responding to was not that one. But I think the original remark was deleted and my comment was left.

Every group, racial or or religious, has their share of sexual criminals and I don't think I care to get lumped in with them by another bigot.

I don't think Huffpo has quite solved it's comments and reply system.

[1question]

More republican sexcapes..."knock me over with feather...who have guess...!?!?"

[avergejoe]

Having worked backstage in the entertainment industry for many years, I'm amazed this surprises anyone; that more cases are not brought.

This creep will not be prosecuted.
And this is a tiny, tiny tip of the iceberg.

And even though he preyed on little boys,
the important thing is - he's NOT GAY.

[Junius]

Does anybody remember The Boys of Boisey? A book from the seventies chronicling the events in that town - white, straight older men (all married and probably good Republicans) harrassing and seducing they boys from the local high schools - particularly the athletic types in amateur sports.

How little things change, and Republican hypocrisy plays one (Senator Craig).

[jasondeluxe]

Every republican I've met looks like some bizarre synthesis of this guy, rove or limbaugh.

If I looked like these pasty republican cowards I'd probably have a host of issues too.

[brooklyncitizen]

Yup...lots of self-loathing issues.Ugh.

[grimm]

Somehow the fact that the music was all so bloody awful makes this even creepier.

[hip dibler]

but he seems so normal. just your average, everyday normal republican.

[arethabaez]

how do you know he's a republican- Art Garfunkle is his cousin.