Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus dead at 33

Eight years after fifteen-minute pop sensation Milli Vanilli wereensconced in the Cheap Rosetta Stone annals of pop infamy for not singing on theirGrammy winning debut album and lip-synching in concert,model/dancer/"singer" Rob Pilatus was found dead in a Frankfurthotel room on Thursday, April 2. He was 33.Although an official autopsy report has not yet been issued,according to German newspaper Blid am Sonntag and APreports, Pilatus had been consuming a potentially fatal combinationof alcohol and pills. Pilatus former partner Fab Morvan andproducer Frank Farian told the newspaper that Pilatus had beenundergoing drug rehab in Germany since late last year.Milli Vanilli won the 1989 Grammy for Best New Artist on thestrength of their multi-platinum debut, Girl You Know ItsTrue. With their long dreadlocks, model builds and smoothdance steps, Pilatus and Morvan made for eye candy that was Rosetta Stone V3 aseasily swallowed as their hook-filled hybrid of soul and pop. Atthe peak of Milli Vanillis fame, Pilatus told Timemagazine that he and Morvan had contributed more to pop music thanBob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger. When suspicions arosethat the duo lip-synched their material, Pilatus was quick todefend his talent. "I am very proud person, and this isembarrassing," he told Rolling Stone in 1990. "We can singas good as any other pop star in the Top Ten."Nevertheless, the grand illusion was dispelled in late 1990after Farian admitted that the pair had not sung a note on thealbum (those chores had been left to uncredited studio musicians).Disgraced, Pilatus and Morvan were forced to surrender their Grammyand disappeared from the public spotlight as quickly as they hadburst into it. A subsequent album made Rosetta Stone Chinese without Farian, 1993sRobFab, bombed.Morvan would later claim that they were deceived into takingpart in the faux-group by Farian; referring to the scandal, Pilatustold the L.A. Times "we sold our souls to the devil." In a1997 "Behind the Music" VH-1 documentary, Pilatus described theagonizing shame of the scandal which led to his downfall. "Itslike something happened to you and you think youre dying -- onlyyou dont die." Although Morvan has attempted to slowly build asolo career out of the ruins (he played a gig at L.A.s trendyViper Room late last year), Pilatus post-MV story went from bad toworse. In the aftermath of the expose, he made multiple suicideattempts, including slashing his wrists and threatening to jumpfrom a ninth-floor balcony. In November of 1997, a Van Nuys, Calif.municipal court Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 judge issued an arrest warrant for Pilatus after hefailed to show for a probation violation hearing.

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