Lou Pearlman
Sign in to saveAmerican talent manager and fraudster (1954–2016)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1954-06-19
- Died
- 2016-08-19
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Bands Brands and Billions
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Film & TV
Acting · Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman was an American music manager and convicted felon. He was the person behind many successful 1990s boy bands, including the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. In 2008, Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history; he died in federal custody.
Known for
- Boy Band Confidential — Self (archive footage)2026
- Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands — Self (archive footage)2024
- Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam — Self (archive footage)2024
- The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story — Self (archive footage)2019
- Forensic Justice — Self (archive footage)2016
- Longshot — Captain Lewis2001
- Making the Band — Self2000
- Inside Monkey Zetterland — Warden / Observation Psychiatrist1992
- 20/20 — Self (archive footage)1978
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 216
- Total plays
- 454
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
· 2020 · cited 17,278x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,734x
- <i>Entropy and diversity</i>
· 2006 · cited 3,961x
- A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing
· 2020 · cited 3,931x
- A new, fast, and efficient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees
· 1996 · cited 3,845x
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Key dates
- Born
- 19 June 1954
- Died
- 19 August 2016
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jay
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Flushing
- Place of death
- Texarkana
- Occupation
- talent manager
- Educated at
- Queens College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- dance-pop
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Connections
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1954 births2016 deaths20th-century American Jews21st-century American JewsAmerican businesspeople convicted of crimesAmerican confidence trickstersAmerican music industry executivesAmerican people convicted of fraudAmerican people convicted of making false statementsAmerican people convicted of money launderingAmerican people who died in prison custody