Lou Pearlman is best known for launching boy bands like NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys. But he is also known for spearheading one of the longest-running ponzi schemes in U.S. history. Dirty Pop, a new documentary series produced by TIME Studios, charts Pearlman's rise and fall over three episodes, featuring perspectives from former employees of the music mogul and boy band members he mentored.
The series, out July 24 on Netflix, also explores why Pearlman was so into boy bands. Read More...
By Denise Foley SHARE With her long dark hair flying, Saorla Meenagh, 10, (pictured above) can execute a perfect switch leap, one leg out, one tucked under, her arms glued to her sides in classic Irish step-dancing style. Saorla, whose blue eyes, white skin, and sprinkle of freckles helped win her a modeling contract with a New York agency—on hold until her braces come off —also plays softball and Gaelic football, a soccer-like game her father, Seamus, a contractor, enjoyed when he was growing up in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Read More...
Any woman who has been a long-suffering commuter on Tokyo’s efficient but overcrowded trains knows that being groped in one of the cars is as dependable as the timetable. Molestation can take many forms: a stray hand, a heavy leaner, a brazen whisperer or flagrant physical contact. To be a woman in Tokyo packed into a rush-hour train is to be inevitably forced to ask oneself, “Did he just …?” Chances are, the answer is yes. Read More...