![]() There are strong echoes of Leaving Neverland, the documentary about Michael Jackson’s alleged abuses. And if he hadn’t taken advantage of them, they would have.” “I think he wanted those boys to see him that way, too. “I think deep down in his heart that’s what he really wanted to be – the sixth member of the group,” she says. Timberlake has rarely spoken about Pearlman, although his mother Lynn Harless appears, humanising Pearlman. Bass said he was not approached to participate as “we already had three ‘NSync members in the film”, which seems a somewhat flimsy reason. “That felt pretty darn violating,” she says.Ĭonspicuous by his absence is Justin Timberlake, the only Pearlman artist to transcend his boyband roots with a successful solo career. Nikki DeLoach of Innosence (Pearlman’s only girlband, which briefly counted a pre-fame Britney Spears as a member) claims that he covertly filmed them naked on the sunbed at his house to show members of his boybands as part of a bizarre bonding ritual. It also draws on archive footage from Howard Stern’s radio show where Rich Cronin of LFO, who died in 2010, claimed that Pearlman asked the group to fondle his penis as “practice” for meetings with German music executives, though it is not suggested any of them ever did. The documentary features Bass talking about how Pearlman gave him massages: “He was very touchy-feely … It always felt a little like, ‘OK, I know what you are doing.’” As with Tam Paton and the Bay City Rollers, there was a darker side. He wanted to be a father figure to the groups he recruited through open auditions, which he personally funded, but he also wanted to hang out with younger people to indulge his big-kid tendencies. Having relocated from New York to Orlando, Pearlman began styling himself as Big Poppa, a man in search of a family as much as he was in search of money. Successful solo careers … Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
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