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June 10, 1991 | CHUCK PHILIPS, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Two multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits filed against Milli Vanilli's record company have been denied certification by a federal judge in Philadelphia.
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December 31, 1990 | MARC FISHER, THE WASHINGTON POST
"And now the Moment of Truth!" says Frank Farian, creator of Milli Vanilli, inventor of Rob and Fab, the pretty faces who--can you believe it!--people actually thought were singing. Farian, the German producer who blew the whistle last month on his own fraud, swivels around from his 84-track mixing console, the Pontiac-size machine on which Milli Vanilli was really made, and furnishes the promised honest-to-God truth. It's a record album.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 21, 1990 | ROBERT HILBURN
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was correct in demanding back the Grammy it awarded Milli Vanilli this year. But the difficult part is still ahead. What do you do now with the award for best new artist of 1989? Here are the options facing an academy subcommittee that will meet on Dec. 5 in New York: * Declare no new winner, which would leave a blank space in future Grammy programs as a reminder of the deception in the Milli Vanilli case.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 21, 1990 | CHUCK PHILIPS
"One of the weird psychological things about doing what we did is that after you perform 100 concerts, slowly but surely you begin to believe you really are the singer," Robert Pilatus said. "It screws you up. You're out on stage and you catch yourself thinking that it really is your own voice." Milli Vanilli's first European tour started Sept. 5, 1989, and lasted 10 weeks.
ENTERTAINMENT
November 21, 1990 | CHUCK PHILIPS
On Aug. 30, 1989, Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan met with top officials from Arista at the World Trade Center in New York.
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November 21, 1990 | STEVE HOCHMAN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
We haven't seen any "Honk if you sang on Milli Vanilli's record" bumper stickers . . . yet. But given the rate Milli Vanilli jokes and gags are proliferating, you should probably check out the car in front of you. Judging by how quickly the nation's comics have jumped on the Milli Vanilli joke wagon, the lip-syncing duo may have a wing of their own in the Easy Target Hall of Fame--right beside Leona Helmsley, Donald Trump and Dan Quayle.