More pop courts news, of the civil kind now, and the Bank Of America has launched two separate lawsuits against US boy band impresario Lou Pearlman - the man who created the Backstreet Boys and Nsync - as a result of which the artist manager now faces lawsuits that total $130 million, or at least that's what the Associated Press are reporting. That figure does not include the $33 million judges recently ordered him to pay on previous lawsuits.
The new lawsuits from the Bank Of America are over allegedly defaulted loan and mortgage payments, and the bank has reportedly filed for possession of Pearlman's Church Street Station complex in Orlando as part of the litigation, although a spokesman for Pearlman denied those reports on Friday.
Pearlman, who is no stranger to litigation (having had high profile legal disputes with both the Backstreet Boys and Nsync), has blamed the latest string of lawsuits on people trying to cash in on his success, telling reporters back in November: "I know a lot of people come at me, as a deep-pockets theory. The more successful you get the more lawsuits you get, unfortunately".