Idolator

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 »