Following his death in in April 2021, the family of the late Bay City Rollers frontman Les McKeown - one of the most successful singers of the 1970s - have told how he “never found peace” and screamed in his sleep for decades after being abused by the band’s manager.

The Daily Record

According to her friends and family, there were two ‘Whitney Houston’s: the dazzling pop princess groomed by Arista president Clive Davis, and the girl from Newark, New Jersey, who rebelled against pressures to be perfect by turning to drugs in her early 20s.

The People

In the 1990s, Music Mogul Lou Pearlman made millions creating the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. It was all a giant Ponzi scheme and members of the successful boy bands struggled to made ends meet.

Rich Cronin of LFO, who died in 2010, claimed that Pearlman asked the group to fondle his penis as “practice” for meetings with German music executives

Nikki DeLoach of Innosence (a girl band which counted a pre-fame Britney Spears as a member) claims he covertly filmed them naked on the sunbed at his house.

The Guardian

Russell Simmons sexual assault allegations come from many women in many places.

It’s a shocking number of sexual assault and rape allegations!

Rolling Stone

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Walk began working at Columbia records in 1990 as a marketing and promotion manager, joined Columbia Records and became vice president of creative marketing and promotion before joining Epic Records as their president.

He’s worked with Destiny’s Child, Will Smith, John Legend, Mariah Carey, and more.

Until, that was, at least five women accused him of sexual misconduct.

And female staffers accused him of sending pornographic images.

Clearly feeling untouchable. Until he wasn’t

Rolling Stone Magazine

James Levine engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct both before and during the period when he worked at the Met. as music director emeritus and artistic director of the organization’s young artist program.

His victims included three men.

Variety Magazine