{"id":90531,"date":"2022-07-03T17:09:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T00:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90531"},"modified":"2022-07-03T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T00:09:39","slug":"ricky-men-and-menudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/ricky-men-and-menudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky, Men and Menudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I binge shows on planes.&nbsp; Therefore, I\u2019m looking forward to my next trip so that I can see the four-part docuseries <strong><em>Menudo: Forever Young<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; However, I don\u2019t expect to be shocked by any of the allegations of bad behavior towards singing boys who were replaced at the sight of their first pubic hair!&nbsp; One cannot be too surprised that impresario <strong>Edgardo Diaz <\/strong>(the <strong>Lou Pearlman <\/strong>of Latin America) does not appear or comment on the charges.&nbsp; However, I am intrigued that <strong>Ricky Martin <\/strong>also refused to talk and only appears in archival footage.<\/p>\n<p>The timing is curious, because one of Ricky Martin\u2019s former managers just hit him with a $3 million lawsuit for unpaid commissions.&nbsp; In the fine print of the suit, something caught my eye: \u201cMartin has now threatened <strong>Rebecca <\/strong>[the manager] and is attempting to force her to sign an agreement with a nondisclosure clause to silence Rebecca about the abhorrent behavior by Martin that she has both witnessed and endured.\u201d&nbsp; There aren\u2019t many specifics, but there is mention of \u201ca particularly ugly incident in Dubai involving Martin and his representative <strong>Jose Vega<\/strong>\u201d.&nbsp; There are also allegations of \u201cMartin\u2019s nonpayment of taxes, and his substance abuse.\u201d&nbsp; Oh, this is gonna get good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I binge shows on planes.&nbsp; Therefore, I\u2019m looking forward to my next trip so that I can see the four-part docuseries Menudo: Forever Young.&nbsp; However, I don\u2019t expect to be shocked by any of the allegations of bad behavior towards singing boys who were replaced at the sight of their first pubic hair!&nbsp; One cannot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90532,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90531\/revisions\/90532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}