Milli Vanilli singer on the lip-sync scandal that broke his partner: ‘They killed my dude’

nypost.com:

Fab Morvan recalls one of the last times he saw his “Girl You Know It’s True” partner Rob Pilatus before his death from an accidental overdose in 1998.It was outside the Viper Room rock club in Hollywood, California, where the fallen pop star — disgraced after the lip-syncing scandal that forced the duo to return the Best New Artist Grammy it won in 1990 — was now far from the green-eyed heartthrob he once was when they were MTV sensations.“I see a dude stumbling across the way,” says Morvan, 57, in the doc. “As he was falling, his body turned, and I looked into his eyes, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is not true.’ I’m looking at Rob Pilatus.”Then Morvan took Pilatus home — to what appeared to be a crack house.Nine years after Milli Vanilli had a string of chart-topping hits in 1989 — “Girl You Know It’s True” was followed by consecutive No.

1 singles “Baby Don’t Forget My Number,” “Blame It on the Rain” and “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You” — Pilatus died alone in his hotel room in Frankfurt, Germany, from a lethal mix of alcohol and prescription pills.Morvan blames Pilatus’ death, at 32, on the brutal media bashing they took after their own producer, Frank Farian, revealed in November 1990 that they didn’t sing a note on their smash debut album, 1989’s “Girl You Know It’s True,” which sold over 6 million copies in the US alone.“There was bullying by everybody.

But why so badly that you killed someone?” Morvan told The Post. “They killed my dude. That’s what they did by the way they treated us.

He died of a broken heart; he really did.”“Milli Vanilli” recounts how an 18-year-old Morvan moved from Paris to Munich, Germany, where he met a breakdancing Pilatus at a party.