More than three decades have passed since Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan — together and forever known as Milli Vanilli – took the music world by storm, and fell from grace even faster. Their six-times-…
More than three decades have passed since Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan — together and forever known as– took the music world by storm, and fell from grace even faster. Their six-times-platinum debut album in the U.S., “Girl You Know It’s True,” was accompanied by a marketing blitz that produced three No. 1 singles, a trio of American Music Awards and a Best New Artist Grammy before it was revealed that the duo had not sung on the album.
For Korem, whose previous feature-film experience was directing a Showtime series on sports gambling called “Action,” the only two people who declined to be interviewed were Farian and Clive Davis, the CEO and founder of Milli Vanilli’s U.S. label Arista Records, who has continued to maintain that he didn’t know the two heavily accented front men were not singing on those records.
The Milli Vanilli story has fascinated filmmakers from producer Kathleen Kennedy to Brett Ratner, whose own long-in-gestation biopic, announced last year, was derailed by a series of sexual-misconduct allegations against him.
The other blockbuster allegation involves the Recording Academy’s Mike Greene taking a bribe to look the other way when the group was allowed to lip-sync on the Grammy telecast — one of the organization’s chief taboos — although he later demanded that the duo return their awards. Segeith describes the transaction simply, rubbing her fingers together in the traditional “it’s all about the money” gesture.
Indeed, that the media was outraged by this show of “inauthenticity” in a business known for its smoke and mirrors remains as curious now as it was then. Farian had already done the same trick once with Europop smash Boney M., whose front man Bobby Farrell was, like Rob and Fab, more dancer than singer, but that didn’t stop them from having a string of vintage disco hits like “Rasputin,” “Daddy Cool” and a cover of “Rivers of Babylon,” all of them sung by Farian himself.
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