Backstreet Boys and 'NSync Impresario Lou Pearlman Dies in Prison

Pearlman, a music producer said to who started the boy-band craze in the 90s, was serving 25 years for a massive Ponzi scheme.

Lou Pearlman poses outside his office's at Church Street Station in Orlando, Fla. in 2007.
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Pearlman was born to Jewish parents in Flushing, New York. He credited his interest in the music industry to Art Garfunkel, his first cousin.