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I. and investigators from the state of Florida, who had rocked Orlando months before by accusing him of being a con man. Gone too were Justin and JC and Kevin and all the other young singers he had made into stars. What remained of Pearlmans empire, mostly memorabilia and office furniture, was to be auctioned later that day. Up in his gaudy third floor corner office, with its rust colored shag carpet and walls lined with gold and platinum records, would be bidders poked into his cabinets and rifled through his desk drawers the only secret they uncovered, alas, was Pearlmans passion for breath mints. At the back, a cavernous storeroom was stacked with framed posters of his bands. Most of those milling about Pearlmans offices had scant idea what he had done wrong, much less where he had fled to. Some said Israel, or Germany, or Ireland, or Belarus. He had left the country last January, just days before the state sued him, alleging that he had bilked nearly 2,0. Florida retirees, out of more than 3. Ponzi scheme lasting at least 1. A dozen banks also sued for more than 1. Later the indictment would come. Big Poppa, it turned out, had been an accomplished swindler long before he formed his first band. His were scams of jaw dropping audacity. Pearlmans largest company, a colossus he boasted was bringing in 8. Dancer Vanity License Plates' title='Dancer Vanity License Plates' />Square Dance License Plates are available from any Licensing Agency. All you have to do is take your vehicle registration or. Thursday September 28, Northwest Estates Auction. Important NW Estates featuring French Antiques, Mid Century Designer Furnishings, Danish Teak, Fine 14K 18K. What is pie Pie is what happens when pastry meets filling. Pie can be closed, open, small, large, savory or sweet. The basic concept of pies and tarts has changed. 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When they finally did, he fought back with lawsuits, forged documents, and fictitious financial statements. When the truth began to come out, he ran. That much any reader of the Florida newspapers might know. What no one knows, however, is that Pearlmans sins appear to have been far more sordid than conning kindly grandmothers. What no one knows, because it is described here for the first time, is that while the King of the Boy Bands was smitten with the music industry and the millions he made there, while he adored his gold records and his television appearances, what Lou Pearlman loved at least as much were the attentions of attractive young male singers. Some, especially the teenagers, shrugged and giggled when he showed them pornographic movies or jumped naked onto their beds in the morning to wrestle and play. Others, it appears, didnt get off so easily. These were the young singers seen emerging from his bedroom late at night, buttoning their pants, sheepish looks on their faces. Some deny anything improper ever happened. But the parents of at least one, a member of the Backstreet Boys, complained. And for any number of young men who sought to join the worlds greatest boy bands, Big Poppas attentions were an open secret, the price some paid for fame. Some guys joked about it I remember one singer asking me, Have you let Lou blow you yet says Steve Mooney, an aspiring singer who served as Pearlmans assistant and lived in his home for two years. I would absolutely say the guy was a sexual predator. All the talent knew what Lous game was. If they say no, theyre lying to you. To a number of his former band members, Pearlman seemed so enamored of his male singers that it called into question his motivations for entering the music business in the first place. Honestly, I dont think Lou ever thought we would become stars, says Rich Cronin, lead singer of the Pearlman boy band Lyte Funky Ones LFO. I just think he wanted cute guys around him this was all an excuse. And then lightning crazily struck and an empire was created. It was all dumb luck. I think his motives for getting into music were very different. Pearlman was already the 3. C. E. O. of a publicly held company when he entered the music business, in 1. He wasnt raised rich, though. Born in 1. 95. 4, he grew up in the Mitchell Gardens Apartments, a collection of six story brick buildings on a tidy street in Flushing, in the northernmost reaches of Queens, New York, below the Whitestone Bridge. His father, Hy, worked in dry cleaning his mother was a homemaker. His cousin the singer Art Garfunkel was among those who encouraged Pearlmans interest in music. In his 2. 00. 2 book, Bands, Brands Billions, Pearlman describes an idyllic childhood in which he grew up a kind of miniature Bill Gates, earning money with lemonade stands and paper routes. His life, Pearlman wrote, changed forever in 1. Whitestone Expressway from his bedroom window, he spied a Goodyear blimp landing at Flushing Airport for the Worlds Fair. At the airport, he begged the blimp men to let him take a ride. When they said only special guests and journalists were allowed on board, the 1. New York City. A dream was born. The blimps returned to Queens every summer for years, and Pearlman was always there to meet them, helping around the hangars and becoming an unofficial mascot. I was ecstatic, Pearlman wrote in his book. The airport became my summer playground and my after school hangout. But there are other versions of Pearlmans early years one hears at Mitchell Gardens. The most compelling is told by Alan Gross, who for 5. Apartment 4. C, a narrow space crammed with flotillas of blimp models, blimp posters, blimp photos, blimp key chains, and a cat. This is the window Lou always talks about, Gross tells me, pointing across the Whitestone Expressway toward the long closed Flushing Airport. Lous apartment is on the other side of the building. He couldnt even see the blimps from there. He saw them here, because I showed him. Fsx Eurocopter Ec 135 Police. After a career in aviation, Gross is now a census worker in poor health, a worn man with a luxuriant gray pompadour, dark circles beneath his eyes, and blue jean shorts cut off with scissors. Though he has never spoken publicly about his longtime friend, Gross lives in a kind of Pearlman museum, his apartment stacked with boxes bursting with Pearlman correspondence, Pearlman news clippings, Pearlman family photos, even tape recordings of 2. Gross is a kind of ramshackle Inspector Javert to Pearlmans Jean Valjean, a man who has spent years trying to warn investors and government agencies about the kid he first knew as Fat Louie. I remember him in a baby carriage, Gross says, taking a seat on an old couch. Louie was a very shy kid, didnt have many friends. Wasnt very friendly, a little overweight. He wasnt comfortable with who he was, you know Im three years older, but we were the only only children in the building, so we became friends. We went on family outings, to the Statue of Liberty, to Coney Island. I went to their family circles, where I listened to his cousin Artie sing as a kid. As Gross tells it, it was he, not Pearlman, who first glimpsed the blimps that day in 1. It was he, not Pearlman, who scurried there to befriend the blimp men he, not Pearlman, who got the press pass necessary to get a ride he, not Pearlman, who snagged the job of gofer around the blimps hangar. The stories he tells Gross says. Theyre not about Lou. Theyre about me. Hes taken episodes from my life to make his own. He always has. Pearlman did join Gross at the hangar, doing odd jobs, but, as Gross tells it, Pearlman did little but sit and stare, which, he says, made the blimp guys uncomfortable.