Milli Vanilli
 People
said from the very beginning that Milli Vanilli couldn't sing.
But in 1989 people started saying that Milli Vanilli didn't sing.
Late in that year, Charles Shaw - a Munich singer who had
done back-up work on the album Girl You Know It's True -
told German radio and television reporters that he had sung the
lead vocals on the record's title track.
The claims were later repeated by the singer in an interview
with New York Newsday.
Shaw also named other "uncredited" singers, and
said that Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan had been hired to sell
records with their looks.
After a public admission by manager Frank Farian that the duo did
not sing on their records, Milli Vanilli were ordered to return
their Grammy awards on 19 November 1990.
Ten days later Rob Pilatus attempted suicide at the Mondrian
Hotel, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles by taking an overdose of pills
and then slashing his wrists.
In March 1992 a US court ordered Milli Vanilli to refund the
purchase price of CDs to fans who bought them under false
pretences.
The judge approved rebates of up to $3 to anyone who
could prove they bought a Milli Vanilli record before the lip-synching scandal began.
Rob Pilatus was found dead from a drink/drugs overdose on 3
April 1998 by manager Frank Farian.
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