Eight years after fifteen-minute pop sensation Milli Vanilli were ensconced in the annals of pop infamy for not singing on their Grammy winning debut album and lip-synching in concert, model/dancer/"singer" Rob Pilatus was found dead in a Frankfurt hotel 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 AP reports, Pilatus had been consuming a potentially fatal combination of alcohol and pills. Pilatus' former partner Fab Morvan and producer Frank Farian told the newspaper that Pilatus had been undergoing drug rehab in Germany since late last year.
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