Episode Details

In the 1990s, a blimp enthusiast with a checkered business record inexplicably dominates pop music by assembling not one but two boy bands.

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SOURCES:

• Lou Pearlman [Wikipedia]
• Baron Blimp Lou Pearlman, head of Airship International Ltd., is fulfilling adolescent dreams of glory [Sports Illustrated]
• Lou Pearlman, Boy Band Impresario, Blimp Tycoon, and Bunco Artist, Dead at 62 [Slate]
• How Lou Pearlman used Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC to lure people into massive Ponzi scheme [ABC News]
• *NSYNC, O-Town members on learning the truth about Lou Pearlman [ABC News]
• *NSYNC vs. Backstreet Boys: The True Story Behind Their Epic Boy Band Rivalry [E! Online]
• Lance Bass on the 'NSync and the Backstreet Boys rivalry: 'The animosity was real' [Yahoo Entertainment]
• Backstreet Boys Turn 25: Untold Stories [Entertainment Tonight]
• Lou Pearlman Ran 1 of America's Biggest Ponzi Schemes [A&E]
• Pop Dreams and Ponzi Schemes [Schneider Downs]
• The "Con" in Trans Continental: Lou Pearlman [Gavin P. Smith]
• AS HE RAN, CASE WAS BUILT [Tampa Bay Times]
• IN JAIL AND ON THE PHONE, LOU PEARLMAN REVERSES THE CHARGES [Tampa Bay Times]
• Victims who lost millions in Pearlman Ponzi scheme could recover a pittance [WFTV]
• Backstreet Boys' Lou Pearlman's Prison Interview: My Ponzi Scheme Was Smarter T