Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli were sold as a pop duo: Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, model-handsome, heavily styled, and very good at moving like pop stars. The voices on the records belonged to other singers.

Producer Frank Farian eventually admitted that Pilatus and Morvan did not sing on the album. The album had already sold millions of copies, and the act had already won the 1990 Grammy for Best New Artist.

The Recording Academy revoked the award. Farian kept the producer's role, the label kept the money, and Pilatus and Morvan became the names attached to the fraud everyone else had helped package.

They tried to come back as Rob & Fab with their own voices, but the 1993 album barely moved. A later Milli Vanilli revival was in motion when Pilatus died in 1998, turning the comeback story into something sadder than the scandal.