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Thanks for stopping by to post the link and spread the news. MTV ran this news item about the auction, too. And today, the Orlando Sentinel published this article about the auction. You can see six photos that they took at the auction. And here is a link to their video account of the event. I also found this video clip at their site showing some of the items that were up for auction while a rep for the auction house rattles of some details about the event. And an Orlando Sentinel columnist wrote this article about the occasion.

It was nice to see that the auctioneers were surprised by the large turnout and interest in the items. They had to move the auction to a larger room to accommodate the crowd!

By the way, the Orlando Sentinel has a nice little collection of articles about some of Lou's criminal behavior listed on this page of their site. They even have this video clip of agents serving/attempting to serve Lou at his mansion. (Try copying and pasting the link to your browser. I couldn't get a direct link of this to work.):

http://video.orlandosentinel.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=1240302&h1=Warrant%20served%20on%20Pearlman%20companies&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=77167&LaunchPageAdTag=News&fvCatNo=&backgroundImageURL=&activePane=info&playerVersion=1&hostPageUrl=http%3A//www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-pearlmansg%2CO%2C6281178.storygallery&rnd=3148559

I recall that many fans that were dismayed by the guys' decision to end their stint as O-Town. I hope that those devotees will get a better idea of just how true this key factor -- bad contracts that made it financially prohibitive to continue as a group -- attributed to their decision to break up.

I truly believe that they gave the project their all and held it together even beyond the point where most would have quit. It's so sad to see that, in my opinion, Lou and a number of others associated with the project didn't commit as much to the project as the guys did. In my opinion, everyone involved would have enjoyed far more success with O-Town if they had invested more into it rather than looking at O-Town as short-term cash cow.

It looks like karma has decided to bite Lou in his big ol' butt. I feel sorry for all of the investors and associates that Lou bilked for millions.

Char

Yes, it's true that the FBI finally caught up with him in Indonesia. Here's the story published by E! Online.

Char

ETA:

Here is another story related to the Lou Pearlman auctions.

ETA:

Here is another article about Lou's arrest. What made me laugh was this segment of the first paragraph that describes explusion from Indonesia:

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CTV reports that his arrest at an Indonesian hotel was followed by his expulsion from the country. The former manager was then shipped to Guam, a U.S. territory, where he will appear in court. Pearlman will follow up that appearance with another one in Florida court, where he is facing one felony count of bank fraud.

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Shipped to Guam?

My mind visualizes Lou being placed in a wooden crate or one of those shipping containers utilized by ships importing goods from overseas!