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NEWS ABOUT: Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - For the incoherent drunkards, the friends who get yanked onstage, and all other would-be singers, Entertainment Weekly offers the best and worst karaoke songs: The Best:
  • "I Want It That Way," Backstreet Boys: The entire room will be singing with you; getting audience members to admit they
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Nine Inch Nails • Neil Diamond • Rihanna • karaoke • Backstreet Boys • Don McLean • o-town

Jailed Boy-Band Schemer Plots Reality Show

It's 'Making the Band meets Charlie's Angels meets Bernie Madoff'

Mar 18, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even from jail, boy-band creator-slash-Ponzi schemer Lou Pearlman is all about the spotlight. The ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys founder is plotting a reality show he can star in from behind bars, the New York Daily News reports. “It essentially would feature Lou's disembodied voice on a speakerphone,... More »

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reality TV • jail • Ponzi scheme • N'Sync • boy bands • Lou Pearlman • Backstreet Boys

 'Party' With a 
 Backstreet 
 Boy—for 
 Just $15! 

Nick throws birthday bash in Canada

Jan 30, 09 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Always wanted to party with the celebs, but just don’t have the cash? Head to Toronto, where you can celebrate Nick Carter’s birthday and virtually dormant music career with the Backstreet Boy himself, Perez Hilton reports. Tickets to the high-profile event are a mere $15, or $20 at... More »

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Canada • celebrity • birthday • birthday party • Toronto • Backstreet Boys • Nick Carter

 Boy-Band
 Promoter to
 Repay $300M 

Court assesses damages of boy band promoter's ponzi scheme

Jul 16, 08 1:47 PM CDT
(AP) - Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million. That's how much the creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync will have to pay, at a minimum, in restitution... More »

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prosecutor • Ponzi scheme • fine • N'Sync • Lou Pearlman • Backstreet Boys

Boy-Band Brain Gets 25 Years
for Fraud

Pearlman gets max for scamming investors, banks out of $300M

May 22, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lou Pearlman, the honcho behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced yesterday to the maximum of 25 years in federal prison for masterminding a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of some $300 million, the AP reports. "The sympathy factor just doesn't run very high... More »

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fraud • conviction • N'Sync • boy bands • Lou Pearlman • Backstreet Boys

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