R70 The "pass around boy" thing is the Menudo scandal, which is so wild that it probably could have its own thread, but there's too many gringos here for it to stay up for long.
**The Menudo scandal goes back to 1990 when those members at the time were caught with weed and the members said friends of management gave it to them.
**There was a rumor where one of the member's brothers walked in on a menudo member and a staff member lying in bed; in some tellings it's Ricky and in others it's Ray Reyes. There was another rumor that one of the members wet a hotel bed in his sleep.
**In 1991 some Menudo members went on Cristina's show (some call her Latina Oprah) and alleged the manager Edgardo Diaz and other men abused them.
**In 1991 the menudo photographer Bolivar Arellano claimed the boys were plied with drugs and alcohol and sexually abused.
** At some point Diaz admitted that many boys came out of Menudo with worse problems than they had coming in (since many members were lower class), but said he wasn't the one that did it.
**In 1999 a tabloid claimed Jose Menendez tried to molest 13/14 year old Ricky Martin while driving him to Disneyland via pulling off the side of the road and trying to stick his hand down his pants (Note: this was at the height of Ricky's fame and Menendez murder was still fresh in peoples minds, and also the other members say hotels and the mansion in Orlando is where their abuse happened, and they would've taken the Menudo plane and bus at this point of their fame). I've also noticed rightwing conspiracy theorists have been using this lately while not being aware of the actual accusations and CDAN tried making a blind item out of this by connecting it with Corey Feldman.
**Angelo Garcia came out in 2015 to say somebody sexually abused him while in Menudo.
**Roy Rossello said in 2014 he was also sexually abused and described an alleged incident where he was summoned to Edgardo Diaz's room and Ricky was there dressed in women's clothes. He claimed he got Robi Rosa and Robi hit the manager. (Note: Ricky and Robi are 2 of maybe 4 members who have a career that causes them to have some relevancy today, and Roy was going through financial trouble at this time).
**In 2014 Rene Farrait said Diaz and others "know what happened". He claimed he mentioned things in interviews while in the group and it was cut out when they aired it. He claimed he wasn't aware of the thing Roy said because he left the group by that point, but said there were "other things" that occurred during his time.
And of course members who still have some career (Ricky, Xavier, Johnny, and Robi) say they had different experiences or don't comment on it at all. That's just so they don't completely minimize or deny what happened to others while still trying to deny that it happened to them.