Shamed Milli Vanilli star breaks silence on Clive Davis death and their fractured relationship… after claiming mogul knew about lip-sync scandal

Fab Morvan, half of the disgraced R&B duo Milli Vanilli, has offered an unfiltered appraisal of Clive Davis after the music mogul’s death.Davis died Monday at the age of 94 after a glittering decades-long run in the industry, during which he signed artists ranging from Janis Joplin to Bruce Springsteen and shepherded Whitney Houston and Barry Manilow to fame.A lowlight of his career was the explosive 1989 scandal in which one of his acts, Milli Vanilli, was exposed for miming to the voices of other singers.Morvan and his bandmate Rob Pilatus saw their stardom curdle instantly into humiliating notoriety as worldwide laughingstocks.Pilatus died of an overdose in 1998 at the age of 33 and Morvan, now 60, has never recovered professionally from the lip-sync fracas.Now he has revealed he and Davis ‘never got a chance’ to repair their relationship after the controversy, in an interview with TMZ. Fab Morvan (left) and Rob Pilatus (right) of Milli Vanilli are pictured with Clive Davis (center), whose label handled their US career, at a pre-party for the 1990 Grammy Awards A lowlight of Davis’ career was the explosive 1989 scandal in which one of his acts, Milli Vanilli, was exposed for miming to the voices of other singersDuring his lifetime, Davis strenuously denied a persistent stream of allegations he had been aware Milli Vanilli were miming to other singers. The claims were leveled not only by Morvan himself but also by former executives at Davis’ label Arista Records, which oversaw Milli Vanilli’s American career. When he was asked for his reflections on Davis’ death this week, Morvan adopted a philosophical tone, saying: ‘Listen, you know, we come and go. It’s just the way it is.’He added: ‘We have to go. However rich, however poor, you do what you do here and then on the way up, on the way down, someone’s gonna meet you, tell you where you go. I have no idea. I’m not there yet.’ Morvan, who was born in Paris, and Pilatus, who originally hailed from Munich, met each other in a nightclub and found their Svengali during the late 1980s in the shape of the wheeling-and-dealing German music producer Frank Farian.Only after they signed Farian’s contract to be the frontmen of Milli Vanilli did the duo discover they would not be doing their own singing, Morvan told Vlad TV.Pilatus and Morvan would instead be presented to the public as the dancing, charismatic edifice of a musical operation secretly voiced by three supposedly less bankable crooners called Brad Howell, Charles Shaw and John Davis.The duo billed as ‘Milli Vanilli’ not only lip-synced during live shows, but were also not actually singing on their 1989 Girl You Know It’s True. During his lifetime, Davis strenuously denied consistent allegations he had been aware Milli Vanilli were miming to other singers; the duo are pictured in London in 1988 Morvan and Pilatus found their Svengali in the late 1980s in the shape of the wheeling-and-dealing German music producer Frank Farian (center), whom they are pictured with in 1989 Davis, pictured in January, died Monday at the age of 94 after a glittering decades-long run in the industry, during which he shepherded Whitney Houston and Barry Manilow to fame. When he was asked for his reflections on Davis’ death this week, Morvan, pictured Tuesday, adopted a philosophical tone, saying: ‘Listen, you know, we come and go’Released by Clive Davis’ label, Girl You Know It’s True went seven times platinum and won Milli Vanilli a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.Their cover was nearly blown during a disastrous 1989 performance on MTV in which Morvan and Pilatus’ mouth movements failed to align with the real singing.Then, after the pair tried to pressure Farian into letting them sing on an album, the producer retaliated by spilling the beans and torching their career.Their Grammy was revoked – the first time the awards had ever made such a move – and Davis’ label deleted the masters of Girl You Know It’s True from its catalogue.Pilatus insisted he and Morvan were ‘happy’ about the end of the charade, which he claimed they participated in because they were ‘scared’ and had received death threats from ‘people’ whose identity he refused to specify.’You get something, for that you make a pact with the devil,’ Pilatus reflected shortly after the duo’s Grammy was rescinded, via the Los Angeles Times.