Rare interview from a video, Rob asking if they should give the Grammy back ON THE DAY they won the Grammys, months before Frank announced they didn't sing, and Grammys 'revoked' their award a few days later in November 1990.

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1990 Hard Copy - Pop Stars Who Sample and Lip Synch
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"Over the years, Milli Vanilli's surrender of the Grammy award has remained a major focal point of the drama. I think one additional and rather obvious reason we got hounded so much was because Rob and I were Grammy winners, Fab believes.

"We decided to give the Grammy back because we thought it was the right thing to do. But it was always reported as the award was taken away from us. No, we gave it back. 

We were doing an interview with a journalist who worked for the Los Angeles Times that day and were planning to return the Grammy afterward. But by that afternoon, the Grammy committee jumped the gun and made the announcement that they wanted it back."
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″We told Clive Davis. We told Sandy Gallin (a Hollywood talent manager). We told everybody six months before the Grammy Awards,″ Pilatus said.
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One guy who emerged unscathed in this whole affair was Clive Davis, who was head of Arista Records. It's highly unlikely that Davis didn't know that Milli Vanilli was a sham, but he still let them get up and accept their Grammy award, The NARAS responded not by blackbailing Davis and Arista but by teaming up with Davis to host an annual pre-Grammy gala, and lavishing his artists with awards, always with Davis on display.

Fast forward to 2020 - Grammy Awards chief alleges nominating process is 'rigged'
The suspended chief executive of the organization behind the Grammy Awards claims the nominating process for the music industry ceremony is "rigged" and clouded by conflicts of interest. Deborah Dugan, who was placed on administrative leave last week about 10 days before this year's
ceremony, painted the Recording Academy as an institution rife with corruption in which powerful
industry figures exercise undue influence on who get recognized for musics top honors.
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