From Crazy Days and Nights, a blog by an Entertainment Lawyer in LA: (bold all my emphasis)
"Let me preface this post, by saying that if this story ever comes out, it would blow the music world up and shake it to its core..This would put the Milli Vanilli scandal and Ashlee Simpson SNL situation so far down the ladder it would be crazy..
Towards the end of last year I had a woman come into my office and she began to explain what she had done and had been doing for several years and it was one of the very few times that I just could not believe what I was hearing..I know the music industry inside and out, and I had never heard of something so extensive and pervasive as this..
This woman (S) came into my office because the payments she had been receiving had stopped and she wanted to either get the money that was owed to her, or expose what she had been doing to the light of day..
S is a sessions/studio/backup singer and is very good..Prior to her involvement in what I am going to describe, she made a very good living singing on commercials and being a backup singer for groups and othe
r solo acts, etc..Like I said she is very good, but she does not really have that "look" which would make her a star, so record companies did not put her out front, but just used her talents..
In late 2000, a man came to her one day and said he needed someone to record some demos because he had written a lot of songs, but wanted a demo to shop the songs to singers and record labels..This is not unusual at all and she had done this type of work before and it paid pretty well so she agreed. What was unusual about her recording of the demos was how much work was put into the actual recordings..It was extensive..Generally there is not much time put into the recordings because you never really know if the song will even sell, and the money spent on recording could be put to better uses..These demos she was recording were actually being treated as if they were going to be released on a CD or to radio..They even did some mixing which was REALLY unusual..
After a few weeks she had recorded about over a dozen songs and she went on her way and was really oblivious to anything else pertaining to it, UNTIL several months later she was in her car and heard her voice coming from the radio, only it was another singer being given credit..(We will call this other singer MV for Milli Vanilli) She could not believe what she was hearing and did not know whether to be excited to hear herself on the radio, confused about the credit given to another singer or just pissed off for the same reasons..
What she did do, was to call the man who had originally come to her and had her record the songs..The man agreed to meet her and gave her a substantial sum of money and promised to keep giving her money every month as long as she kept her mouth shut. MV was taking off..(MV has/had several Top 40 songs and CD's. They could have gone to #1 or languished in the 30's..I really cannot go into much more detail or else it would be too easy to discover) MV was everywhere..on television, radio, awards shows, commercials..EVERYWHERE..meanwhile, S continued to get money every month and kept her little secret to herself..The guy who picked S was VERY lucky..Most singers would have caused a fuss, but S has always been in the background and was resigned to the fact she always would be, and was very happy just taking the $$, and did not want that to stop..
About 9 months go by and S is called by the guy because MV is going on tour and they want S to record some extra mixes and such for the tour..She agrees and does not really do much, but money is money..
Fast forward another year or so and S stops receiving money and after a few months 
of missed payments, calls the guy who explains that they need S to do another CD and then the payments can continue, but there is no more money unless she does more recordings..
S agrees and records another CD worth of songs which is released several months later and does even better than the first CD. This same process is repeated (I am not going to tell you the number of CD's because again you may be able to deduce and so I will just say the process repeated itself several times)
Well everything goes well for the most part for all these years and then no more payments, and no more calls and she cannot even locate our mystery man..S has not received a payment in six months when she came into my office and related this story..She did not even know the guy's name, but when she described him, I knew who he was and was even more floored than I had been previously..This was just something I had really not heard before..
I had heard of really altering voices in the recording studios and bringing in hired hands for one song or a large portion of a song, but never CD after CD and even doing extra work so a live performance would not sound staged..I told her I needed some time to check into her story and then we could proceed..It took two calls before I got the guy on the phone and he was pissed, scared, angry, thr
eatening, remorseful..everything..It turns out the reason he had stopped making payments was he had been playing some shell games with the money between the record company, MV's earnings and MV's investments and just did not have any additional money..In addition, MV was not sure she wanted to continue on with what had been happening and so our mystery guy might be completely out of the picture..
I actually think the record company to this day has no idea what went on as the Guy was very good at what he does/did and knew how to make sure the record company was always happy..He stayed under budget, toured, made MV available, and made the record company money..
So a meeting was arranged in my office and S and MV finally met face to face..they had never done so, even though it was S who made MV a star..MV was rude to say the least when she saw what S looked like and it really upset me although S being her normal classy self could have cared less..
What we agreed to do that day was to provide S with one lump sum rather than a monthly income which was easier for Guy to pull off and S also agreed to never disclose her role in this drama and MV was on her own for future recordings and tours..
This involved literally millions of CD's and hundreds of concerts all over the world..The one thing I did get out of this beside my fee of course is a Gold Record autographed by S and by MV..I know it is the only one in the world.."
Later hints at Crazy Days and Nights were:
On January 11th Ent lawyer wrote: "There is not a link that I am going to provide to this one. Everyone should know the biggest of all and today, and today only is a hint for all. It will disappear tomorrow so enjoy it now. Never, not once has this name appeared written by me anywhere here." This hint disapeared the next day.
Another hint he wrote earier was "I do not really change dates or places at all in the blind items with the exception of the MV story. If I use the term a couple or several then I mean couple or several in the same way that anyone else would use that term. Unless someone shares a story with me, none of the events in the blog happened more than about ten years ago and in that case I would say about ten years. I am very careful about the words I use which is one of the reasons the blind items take so much time"
And (in a separate post) he said:
"a couple things need to be said..This really happened just as I said it did..However, there was also a settlement agreement that was confidential which I cannot violate as well...THEREFORE, I have taken certain precautions such as using the year 2000 as a starting point..In addition, I am very vague when I use times such as several weeks or months....It would not be fair to S or the other parties involved or ethical to be any more specific in this situation.."
Ent Lawyer also said some had guessed correctly on message boards on the web that were talking about this (mind that he didn't just say his own board) I don't like you in that way's message boards and others were talking about it furiously for months)
He also wrote on Monday 27th November 06:
MV UPDATE
DEVELOPING-----
Someone who knows MV, but does not know about the S situation told me this morning that MV was contemplating an in depth interview to address some issues in her personal and professional life. Could this be one of the issues?"
Methinks: I checked at the time and the only really big singers that he had never mentioned up until january 11th 2007 were Jennifer Lopez, Paula Abdul, Ashanti, Faith Hill, Janet Jackson, and Shania Twain.
He had mentioned Britney, Paris, Jessica Simpson, Gwen, Celine, Beyonce, Madonna, and every other possible suspect.
J-lo has had rumours circulating her for years that she uses a lot of vocal help, any duets she has done are re-mixes except for with her hubby, her ex Puffy is the king of fudging sound and he produced her first albums, and her few live performances do seem very lip-synched. She lip-synched in Selena. Perhaps now she sings all in Spanish to cover up any inconsistencies in sound arising from a new lip-syncher or her own voice. Plus, the pics he's used in the post also look like j-lo. She has been in tons of commercials etc. Her second album was more successful than her first. She was already a minor star as a result of Selena and so a record company could have wanted to do a syergy thing with her with a CD regardless of lack of major talent.
On the other hand Paula Abdul might fit with the altered time and has had rumors of this very thing happening. Once she got really big, a background singer from her first recording even filed a lawsuit claiming that she sang instead of our star. The kicker...she was on her first tour when the real Milli Vanilli incident happened...and she was on tour WITH Milli Vanilli! Interesting to note, that she refuses to sing anytime someone puts a mic near her on American Idol....
Or if the hint is a red herring consider this from the Crazy Days and Nights message board -
"I'm so happy you posted this. let me say, i am not trying to destroy anyones career here, but people have been doubting this for a while. ive known about this from the beginning. this lady is a friend of someone i know who is very important in the music industry. its funny how at the beginning of the blog was a reference to, yes, the ashlee simpson mishap on snl. Its only funny because ladies and gentlemen, Ashlee Simpson did not sing on either one of her records! and thats that." Quite convincing. And haven't you thought that Jessica's non-warbling voice on A Public Affair sounds almost exactly like Ashlee's on her 2nd album?
Or, Ashanti -The Inc...is a criminal affiliated organization...Ashanti dated the CEO why wouldn't he fudge her isht to make her a star? 3. this site http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-a/ashanti.htm runs her timeline from start to end. The checks stopping might have to do with the endictment and financial freeze on all accounts.
Or consider if the hint is a red herring consider these people in this comment on the Crazy Days comments section: "The singers we chose were Celine Dion (because her singing voice lacks the strong accent that her speaking voice has, and she hasn't released any new material. Plus, she has been performing old material in Vegas which could easily be from the music that S recorded for MV's touring) , Shania Twain (because she was huge and broke the country barrier, even appearing on MTV, and her second CD did much better than her first. Also, she suddenly dropped off the radar and hasn't been heard from since), and Janet Jackson (because she's always been extremely secretive, like being married for a long time without anyone knowing, and her father seems like the type to be apart of something like this). Since in later posts ENT says that some people have guessed who MV is, we decided that it can't be Celine Dion, since no one has guessed her. We also decided that it probably isn't Janet Jackson, since on her recently released album, her voice sounds pretty much the same has her past ones. That left us thinking that it must be Shania Twain. She was huge, has released at least three albums, and won awards. So why did she suddenly just disappear? Kind of fits the part about deciding that she no longer wanted to be apart of everything that was going on".
Or Madonna - Guy with a capital could be a clue relating to her hubby, Guy. She clearly lip-synchs and would rock the music industry.
Or what about this comment on the Crazy Days and Nights board: " I hate to upset u all but the truth is the singer is Beyonce'. The girl who is singing had done a demo for " my boo" the song with alicia keys and usher before alicia recorded her part and she sounds JUST like B. People who heard it all thought it was her. THERE (sic) VOICES CANNOT BE TOLD APART! Beyonce can sing really well but she was lucky enough to find someone who sounds like her so she doesnt have to do the work. I dont know what this girl looks like but i will say her voice is amazing and she she should be paid well."
I would add that Beyonce's says she turns into another alter-ego on stage, named...Sasha. Like the initial S...interesting huh? And her speaking voice is completely different to her singing voice and on her latest album her singing sounds quite a lot worse if not completely bad/different. She did not sing well in Dreamgirls either, nor was she required to. She also said her dad was not involved in the new album at all, she didn't even tell him she was recording, maybe he was the man Ent lawyer recognised. He was her manager.
However my money's on J-Lo or Paula because of the 'no mention prior to jan 11th' hint.
