But…I wouldn’t be where I am if it wasn’t for him… and it sucks.” I understand that because like I said, it’s so many emotions. I know that a lot of the other guys are bitter. It was the most confusing moment probably that I’ve ever had. “And the minute you’d start to laugh, you’d start to get angry, and the minute I was angry, I started to feel bad for the whole thing that happened. “The minute…you’d start to cry, you’d start to laugh,” Kirkpatrick said. Kirkpatrick expressed similar mixed emotions on 20/20. “I’m like, ‘How could you die right now when we don’t have this closure?”
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“I was so confused on exactly how to feel,” Bass said. Bass told 20/20 Pearlman’s death in 2016 meant none of the victims in the $300 million Ponzi scheme received closure. NSYNC and other boy bands the mogul managed, including the Backstreet Boys and O-Town, filed lawsuits against Pearlman, saying he pocketed much of their earnings and left them with small payouts. Lou Pearlman’s death at age 62 in federal prison left lawsuits filed against him unresolved. O-Town's Jacob Underwood reveals how Lou Pearlman controlled O-Town: "It makes working impossible." Watch on #ABC2020 tonight at 9/8c on ABC. NSYNC’s Lawsuit Filed Against Pearlman Was Unresolved After He Died in Federal Prison at Age 62
“Mixed emotions right now, but RIP Lou Pearlman,” Kirkpatrick wrote on Twitter the day of Pearlman’s death. “I hope he found some peace,” Justin Timberlake wrote on Twitter August 21, 2016. “He might not have been a stand up businessman, but I wouldn’t be doing what I love today without his influence,” Bass wrote in a tweet the day after Pearlman’s death. Many of the band members sent out social media posts after learning of Pearlman’s death, which reflected their conflicting emotions. He funded it… I don’t know where I’d be without him. “There’s so many life lessons that you learn from everyone else’s mistakes – from your mistakes,” Bass said. Pearlman had denied the allegations.īass said on 20/20 he credits Pearlman for his career, despite the fraud that funded it. Those sexual misconduct allegations were first detailed in a 2007 Vanity Fair article. Pearlman also faced allegations of sexual misconduct. Most of his investors were retirees in Florida. He was known for bringing Bass and other boy band members to fame, even while keeping most of their earnings and duping investors. Pearlman, the manager of *NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys and other boy bands, was a mogul in the music industry. Lance Bass and Chris Kirpatrick, former members of *NSYNC, told ABC 20/20 they experienced a slew of conflicting emotions when Lou Pearlman died. Members of Lou Pearlman’s Boy Bands Expressed Conflicting Emotions When the Mogul Died Pearlman’s story originally aired in a two-hour special of 20/20 Friday, Decemin its episode, “The Hitman: From Pop to Prison.” The episode is airing again tonight, Friday July 3, 2020, at 9 p.m. Much of the restitution was unpaid when he died, and the lawsuits were never resolved, leaving the victims without closure. All but one of the boy bands he launched sued Pearlman. He launched boy bands NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, Take-5, O-Town and others, promoting them with the investors’ money and keeping most of the profits for himself in a $300 million Ponzi scheme. Pearlman was convicted of fraud for swindling millions of dollars from thousands of investors, many of whom were retirees living in Florida, according to court filings in his case. Lou Pearlman’s death in federal prison left lawsuits filed by NSYNC and other boy bands he managed unresolved, and left many of his victims with unpaid restitution.
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