Accidental Demise - The Rob Pilatus Story (Milli Vanilli) 

Yes, he never faced repercussions even though not only he was the mastermind of the whole thing, and he did it before with Boney M. He continued to make hits with groups he developped, most famously La Bouche.

Agreed.

Frank Farrian needs to realize that WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND! Karma is right around the corner waiting to happen to him sooner or later!!!! 💯

Nobody outside of Germany knew who he was. It likely hurt him a little at the time, but once he signed La Bouche and they became popular, he just continued to have success, including in America.

He was big time producer in Germany and had money and connections....

You're absolutely beautiful 😍

Absolutely!!!

Still love the music

Story always intrigued me. I'm well aware this was common in the biz but not openly spoken of. Music biz was kinda like Kay fabe in wrestling, people lived the gimmick.. this was also the era when it wasn't ok like it is these days to do more than 1 thing. Back than you couldn't be a actor wanting to be a musician and be taking seriously neverless a model etc. You had to pick 1 if you were to be taken seriously unlike these days. .different era

Who cares

Yep cause I would’ve done the same thing

I wish we would! People need to treat people like they are human beings.

Bullying has gotten worse with social media. It also shows us how many immature adults are running around

I agree with you, because words affects other people and people feel suicidal thoughts and killing each other for no reason. Let's stop the bullying, this is why I wanted peace and love, not hatred and violence

Yes it does. Left indelible marks and effects on my life to this day. I hate how bullies still exist and terrorize these kids....or worse yet: bullies as adults😡😡

Yes but Rob was talking big. So that also didn’t help unfortunately. Frank was jealous also. Cause he was gunning for them

Amen👼 yes I agree Frabrice 🎤💜 alaways celebrate him matter what. Rob 🎩♥️ was a big part of his life. Fab even said they pretty much grew up together like brothers..

I respect him for that he is still holding his boy down to this very day.

Amen ❤and

When Rob dies, Fab was not there to burrie him

​@@traumfabrik3635True. Maybe he didnt know that Rob passed away because he was either in LA or France at the time while Rob was already in Germany on rehab for his drug addiction

Very true they were used by the industry.

I watched it also. Definitely interesting interview.

I saw this interview and have it archived. EVERYONE needs to see this interview. Honestly he explained a lot of things and touched on certain subjects that nobody knows. I also wanted to add that I always though he was fine as hell and he still is to this day 😉

Saw a vid of him performing Girl You Know It's True, and he sounded good and was having fun doing it. The audience was having fun too.

Facts

Probably irritated everybody because there are people out there who can really sing and are not faking it

@@aliciapalmer3937 but to sue over it?? How much pain and suffering can someone else lip-synching cause you??

You get paid to perform ...you should not get paid for a fake performance..

@@ltel1980 false advertisement, just the way it is...try that now and it'll be much worse.

@@MaurandisDaRadusFilms then sue the record label if you feel the need to sue anyone, not the artists who are just doing their job.

Omar voice *"oh no doubt"*

Same guy who did them in was behind that Techno singer's group. The singer who died in the plane crash the same year Aaliyah died. And he was up to the same thing.

@@anonimothy5979 you talking about melanie Thornton, who was in the group la bouche (who died in a plane crash on Nov 24th 2001 the same year aaliyah died)?

@@anonimothy5979 damn I didn't even know that wow

Exactly

it's amazing for people to want to be in the industry it's more like a factory. You bleed u sweat u may get money just they don't realize the sweating in a dumpster. They sleeping with women that's been passed around, let them on drugs They used them like drugged up dolls with the string hanging out that u pull to hear them talk. At end of the day they bleed for garbage out the dumpster

You could've watched VH1 's Behind The Music.

@@anthonymackey222 You could've commented somewhere else too 🤣 oops 😅

@@anthonymackey222 Furthermore I've already seen it, the version before Rob passed away and the updated version. I'm just showing this brother who made this video some positive feed back. But you wouldn't understand, you got too much tension in your finger tips.

@@positive___soul 😂😂😂😂

Tech n9ne said it best .Fuck the industry.

Very sad & unfair

Me too!

@@misst3016 😉👍🏾

dont forget my number is my jawnt forever!!!

@@purejoy1985 I ain’t going to lie, I wore “Biker Shorts” as well lol 😂. We all did. Blame it on the rain was a song I definitely remember to my heart because I attended my “Jr Prom” and I danced with my crush 😻. I didn’t even know she liked me until our prom, I still love her to this very day. Even though we’re both married and have kids, she still sends me the song in my “DM’s” every April. But I loved “Milli Vanilli” and I still listen to their songs

Yes 🙌 I didn’t care if they lip synced I jus liked the way they looked 🥰 beautiful 😻 those were some handsome men

No. The fans did.

I love Milli vanilli

@@saj8 Frank did too he threw them under the bus

@@traveonsmith256 That idiot of a producer, had no riht to do this Fab🎤💜and Rob🎩♥️ they have the right to be superstars and be successful just like the next person.😊this is really bad on what happened to them That handsome and beautiful of Man named Rob🎩♥️had to die.😘😘😘I will always blame That ass 😠 and Arista records for destroying Rob's life . That man was loved and missed very much.now Frabrice 🎤💜 is without him.😘😘

@@lorettaquerry2814 exactly they are the blame for Rob's demise I blame him for Bobby Farrell too keeping his solo album unreleased after leaving boney m

Right!!!! I loved Milli Vanilli!!! Always will!!

Their story really needs to be told.😠Rob 🎩♥️ should of never died over this.the world bully him for what he did which was not his fault.Frank Will not let them sing.so please forgive him.!!!

@@lorettaquerry2814 What's holding it up is the same thing that's been holding it up for decades. Frank!. He's not gonna clear any of the songs and if he does he probably wants an insane amount of money.

@@ViralClips762 Publushing is very important in contracts, wish they knew but yes indeed a docu series and probably a movie biopic

@@ellebee690 Hell yeah. He still has a following.

Aresenio...I know..lol

@@sandrasanders706 I forgot to put his name in there thank you

Yeah! Those jackass people acted like they were so right to be offended by everything. All their hatred caused Rob his life which is just so sad.

Yes he has alot of blood on his hands

Of course, he knew! He just didn't care & he planned on using them & tossing them aside when he was done with them like the rest of the industry execs.

I agree

Of course Clive knew

I agree!! They definitely need & deserve a biopic!

@@larhondaburchett3271 those record labels r no good they r something else

Fab did mention that might be one coming.

Good I hope so

@@smcrae25 good I hope so

One of my all time favs from the 80's!!

@@sandrasanders706 Absolutely !

They had great singer songwriters! Those songs were just awesome. Yeah Davis knew and didn't care..

Frank was a nasty snooty man of business. Why the music industry is like that idk😔

To put it mildly 😏

Evil lives a long time

Yes . Fab did pay for Rob’s rehab . Frank will get his penance on Judgement Day ….

@@vbowls338 Defo! 100% Frank had no heart.

Not anymore

This is absolutely not true!! The rehab was financed by Frank Farian as well as the health-recovery-trip to Sri Lanka he supposed to start. However, he died because of Alcohol and drug intoxication from the night before departure, blowing 2.000 Euros pocket money he was given for his planned stay. He was discovered dead by a employee of Frank Farian, after they couldn’t reach him over the phone before his departure. There is evidence for this in a number of interviews and research done by well regarded media. At RTL (a large TV broadcaster in Germany/ Europe) , journalists confirmed, that the contracts Rob and Fab had with Milli Vanilli were extremely fair having them earned several millions just for jumping around and lip-syncing. Tell me, who else did get that at this time? Where is your evidence for Fab saying that rehab has been paid by him?

There’s a documentary about it all out now 👌🏼👌🏼so glad they got to tell there story , no other way to look at it other than frank being an abuser , imagine if he did this to 2 women , he’d be branded all sorts

In December this year theres a movie coming out which is called Girl you know it's true which tells the whole MilliVanilli Story.

​@@iamverena2993 I am so glad. Rob and Fab deserve their story to be told. They were two beautiful souls. RIP Rob. Gone but never forgotten. You are still so loved. ❤

I said the same thing that they could actually sing but they just didn't get the chance to prove themselves because America couldn't get past it

@@tyralikadiamondstar8960Rob & Fab became persona non grata with the music industry basically.

Clive Davis is SCANDALOUS

It’s amazing how this Frank guy didn’t catch no where near the amount of heat Rob and Fab got.

sadly John Davis the studio voice behind Fab passed away, they even performed together up until his death. RIP John Davis and Rob Pilatus.

I wouldn't be surprised if Frank is still pulling this stuff with singers now

Actually no, they were better then the actual singers but it was a too little, too late situation. They lost the public’s trust at that point. Arsenio Hall actually gave them a chance when they brought out new material with THEIR ACTUAL VOICES and I remember that telecast and they sounded great. We all felt bad for them because you had the scandal which the media was all about money back then as they are today but their was no social media back then, so everyone was about selling magazines and and television shows like entertainment tonight among said others who tore them a new hole. It really wasn’t the fans, it was people who played along for media sake burning records to make it look like it was a big deal. Meanwhile we had people like Joey Lawrence from the show “Blossom” singing songs like “There’s nothing my love can’t fix for you baby” which I luv the song, he was a one hit wonder. I knew people who was NOT gonna burn milli vanilli records and was still playing blame it on the rain and the other songs by them. It’s was really sad all around

Ikr! I was getting worried too! It isn’t crazy how as soon as we start worrying about him. He pops up with a new video. Lol!

Exactly!! 💯 Boy got too big for his britches. Sound like they made an example out of Rob. The song skipped on his part after making that comment lol. Industry handlers don't play!

@@jwilcollective816 facts

@@jwilcollective816 Nah the tape skipping happened before Rob made that comment. Fab tried to defend him in the Vlad interview saying his words were misunderstood but I do believe Rob really said that because he got problematic and arrogant at that time.

Yep. Pride comes before the fall.

@@daryltracy7949plus he was probably was high on coke

Yassssssssssssssssssssss.....watch Troop movie on Tubi.....just came out....talking to the members ....

@@madren36 What is the movie called?

@@madren36 I watched it. I loved how it was broken down so each member could tell their story.

Yes please we need a bio on Reggie and Troop CU as soon as possible. 🙏🏽

My favorite childhood group

Me too!

Wow, you had me thinking about happy times and memories with my family😢

I remember that

I loved that song when I was a kid.

They did! They sang those two songs occasionally along with their own music when they would perform at local avenues. They couldn't book professional concerts sadly because people were still not over the scandal. I would love to see footage of that. I've only seen pictures of them performing post 1990.

@@daryltracy7949 what was needed wasn’t done, before the scandal hit they could have pulled the bull by it’s horns and said Fu*k it we’re not gonna lip sync to the track but we’ll use our actual voices instead and they didn’t. When the footage of them lip syncing came out, it wasn’t the first time fans caught them, this time it was recorded. That record skipped more times then they’d care to admit, and they were already informed that the actual singers were about to head to the press which gave them time to get ahead of it because touring was everything back in the day, fans took it way…….. more seriously then they do now because it was a different generation. So sadly as a matter of course they are as much to blame. Only person on tour was them, it’s not like the record label or mangers were there at every turn, maybe the promotional tour YES but when the ongoing tour before the scandal, they had time to devise a plan. This is why management is everything, it’s a make or break. And as an artist I’ll just say it’s important to be kind to everyone from back up singers, dancers, DJ’s band members and everyone that’s part of your crew when your on tour because when you are everyone has got your back and apparently someone didn’t have theirs.

Iike the devised recently happened!?!

They don’t understand English 🤦🏾‍♀️

​@@shavell9447😮😮😮 So sad poor guys😢😢😢

That would be a really good one

Facts 💯 I used to love that record label back in the day because they had fantastic artists.

Clive Davis to me is suspect as a music executive producer.

Exactly. He kept saying they're black. Fab was as far as we know but if Rob had a white mother he's obviously biracial. Of course a certain people will say he's black because he didn't look white but he's both which is fine

Of course his sneaky, greedy snake ass did.

Yes.