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Earlier this afternoon, our post about Raz B's half-hearted denial of his earlier allegations that his former manager, Chris Stokes, forced him and his bandmates in B2K (shown here in, uh, "happier" times) into orgies and other sex games—and the possibility that said denial could in fact serve as the denoument to this sordid affair—garnered this comment from a reader:

This story is sooo not over. Now Raz B's brother is saying that the LA Crips gang forced his brother to say those things at gunpoint and Raz B has been missing for 2 days. The whole thing is wild, just wild.

I thought that the commenter was joking, but both stories actually came straight from Raz B's brother, a.k.a. Ricky Romance, via the gossip site Bossip, which is apparently doing further legwork on that side of the story. Meanwhile, people claiming to be Raz B and his management have taken to their MySpace bulletins, as a reader of Oh No They Didn't found out:

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B2K's Raz B has recanted the allegations of hotel-room orgies and the like that he fired at his former manager Chris Stokes earlier this week, although his demeanor in the clip (posted above) seems to be more "forced mouthing of words at the behest of his legal team" than "genuinely sorry." And so ends another sordid chapter in the world of sexed-up teenpop—but hey, at least everyone knows about that "Life After B2K" reality show that the former boybanders are pitching, right? Talk about your win-win-hurl situations! More »

Raz B, real name De'Mario Monte Thornton and former member of the well-chiseled boy band B2K, posted a couple of videos on YouTube today that were filled with allegations regarding former B2K managers Chris Stokes and Marques Houston. Well, really, there was one big j'accuse: According to Raz B, Stokes and Houston "forced the boys of B2K into orgies with managers, agents, friends and each other," a practice that apparently went on almost daily until the group disbanded. For those of you who don't feel like squirming through the clips and who just want the dirt (as it were), a helpful reader of the gossip community Oh No They Didn't has summarized them in netspeak: More »