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Lance Bass and Aaron Kunkel on ‘The Boy Band Con’ & the Dark Truth Behind the 90s Boy Band Craze

From director Aaron Kunkel and producer Lance Bass, the documentary The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story (available to stream at YouTube) charts the life and crimes of the man who turned talented young singers into superstar boy bands, like *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, and created rivalries between them while stealing their money, only to then go on to perpetrate one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. The unbelievable story is told from the perspective of Lou Pearlman's childhood friends, the Ponzi scheme investors, and the boy band members themselves, while tracking his life from …