This page is dedicated to Milli Vanilli and more specifically the late Rob Pilatus. We (those who appreciated the act of Milli Vanilli) will miss him dearly.

People Weekly wrote in their April 20, 1998 issue: Thanks to People Weekly for this photo. DOOMED DREAMER... It was the sort of success most performers dream of. But for Rob Pilatus, who was found dead in a hotel near Frankfurt, Germany, on April 3 at age 33, after overdosing on drugs and alcohol, being one half of the duo Milli Vanilli was a labor of dread. "We were afraid for two years that this day would come," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1990 after it was revealed that he and Milli mate Fabrice Morvan had sung nary a note on their 1989 album Girl You Know It's True. "We've cried about it...that the secret might come out." When it did, the Grammy they won as best new artist was revoked and the duo became, in Morvan's words, "the joke of the entire planet." For Pilatus, it led to a sad slide into substance abuse, attempted suicide and arrests. Back in Germany, he reunited with Milli mastermind Frank Farian, but despite 10 stabs at rehab, Pilatus couldn't kick his habits. He was last seen alive by Farian on April 2. "He'd been drinking and his whole body was shivering," said Farian, who believes the overdose was accidental. "But I [didn't] recognize the danger." The son of a German woman and a U.S. soldier, Pilatus was raised by adoptive parents in Munich, where he and Morvan were performing together in 1987 when Farian hired them to lip-sync Girl's tunes. "Milli Vanilli was not a disgrace," Morvan (now singing solo in L.A. clubs and "feeling tremendous pain" over his estranged partner's death) said in a statement. "The only disgrace is how Rob died-all alone, destroyed from the rapid rise then sudden fall."