Oscar De La Hoya

In April 2005, De La Hoya and a Southern California real estate developer, Highridge Partners, formed a real estate investment partnership named Golden Boy Partners to invest in Latino neighborhoods. Rumors circulating that Justin Timberlake has quit the group have added to the uncertainty over the groups future. De La Hoya's record stands at 37 wins and 4 defeats, with 31 wins by knockout. Plans to work on their fifth album are being discussed, however details are uncertain. He lost to Hopkins by a ninth round knockout on the appointed date; a left hand to the body sent him to the canvas, knocking De La Hoya out for the first time in his career. Joey is acting in movies (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and on Broadway (Rent). Because of this, NBC has filed a lawsuit against him, asking for 30 million dollars. Lance abandoned his plans to be the first celebrity in space.

De La Hoya cancelled a contract with NBC to cover the Olympic Games in Athens so that he could fulfill the compromise against Sturm, and later on, against Hopkins. Chris closed his clothing business, Fuman Skeeto. After that, he hoped to unify that title with the three other world Middleweight championships, held by Bernard Hopkins, on September 18. The group went on hiatus in 2002, as two of its members released solo albums -- Justin Timberlake released Justified on November 4, 2002 and JC Chasez released his solo album, Schizophrenic, on February 24, 2004. De La Hoya next challenged Felix Sturm for the WBO world Middleweight title on June. He won that fight by a close but unanimous decision to become the first boxer in history to win world titles in six different weight divisions. Recent hits such as "Gone" and "Girlfriend" have expanded the group's influence and fan base into the hip-hop crowd as well. On February 9, 2004, the FBI announced it would investigate whether the rematch with Mosley had been fixed, placing Arum's promoting company, Top Rank, in the middle of a scandal that allegedly involved bribing the judges so they would score the fight for Mosley. Their albums have been boosted by a number of successful single releases, including "Tearin' Up My Heart" from *NSYNC, "Music Of My Heart" recorded with Gloria Estefan for the movie Music of the Heart, "Bye Bye Bye", "It's Gonna Be Me" and "This I Promise You" from No Strings Attached.

On September 13, he and former rival Mosley met once again, in Las Vegas, and Mosley once gain took away De La Hoya's world title belts, with a 12 round unanimous decision over The Golden Boy. Their fourth album, Celebrity comes in at number two, with 1.8 million records sold in its first week. De La Hoya hurt his left hand in the process of defeating Campas. After moving from BMG to Jive Records, home of rival boy band Backstreet Boys, No Strings Attached, released in March 2000, sold 2.4 million copies in its first week of release—the highest first week sales in music history (1.1 million of which was attributed to the first day of release). On May 3, 2003, as part of the Cinco de Mayo festivities, he retained his WBC and WBA world Jr Middleweight championships, when the corner of his rival, former world champion Yori Boy Campas understood that Campas had taken too much punishment in round seven and threw in the towel, indicating that they were giving up, and officially giving De La Hoya a seventh round knockout win. Their debut album, released by BMG, did well in Europe and the US as did the seasonal Home For Christmas. The two were found safe five days later. The group produces a blend of pop, dance, and R&B that they call "dirty pop". No Strings Attached was the first album to feature this type of music; they gave the style a name with their latest album Celebrity.

In June 2003, Desbrow's family reported her and Devon missing, their car found parked at a Riverside, California shopping center. Their defining album, No Strings Attached, released shortly thereafter, proved that the boys were back in business. March 29, 1999) by actress Shanna Moakler. *NSYNC left Pearlman to be managed by Johnny Wright of Wright Entertainment Group. November 30, 1998) by former dancer Angelique Desbrow and Atiana Cecilia (b. Shortly after their breakthrough, *NSYNC fought a court battle against their manager citing mismanagement. February 18, 1998), Devon (b. After Lance joined, the group claimed to call him "Lansten" so his name would fit in the *NSYNC acronym.

He married Puerto Rican singing superstar Millie Corretjer on October 5, 2001, and lives half of the year in Los Angeles and the other half in Puerto Rico. De La Hoya has 3 children by 3 different women: Jacob (b. It was created from the last letter of each member's name: Justin, Chris, Joey, Jason, and JC. He designed his own house in Big Bear Lake, California, has a clothing line (BUM, or Boxing UniforMs) and released a Grammy nominated cd. The logic behind the name *NSYNC came from Justin's mother, Lynn Harless. De La Hoya's interests outside the ring include architecture, acting, fashion designing, and singing. The bass part was sung by Jason Watkins, who left the group early on because he did not like the type of music *NSYNC was performing. De La Hoya is one of the favorite boxers of American cable channel HBO, where he currently produces a popular Spanish language boxing show called Boxeo de Oro. Lance Bass, who coincidentally sang bass, was not originally part of the group.

He also has lost to world champions Félix Trinidad (Majority decision loss 12), and Shane Mosley (UD loss 12, split decision in 12) and Bernard Hopkins (knocked out in nine rounds). The group formed in 1995 under the funding of Lou Pearlman, who hired Johnny Wright (former manager of New Kids On The Block ) to be their tour manager. De La Hoya signed for 1 million dollars with promoter Bob Arum and went on to win 5 world titles and beat former and current world champions like Troy Dorsey (KO 1), Jimmy Bredahl, (KO 10), Jorge Paez, (KO 2), Genaro Hernandez (KO 6), John John Molina (Split Decision win 12), Rafael Ruelas (KO 2), Julio Cesar Chavez (KO 4, KO 8), Miguel Angel Gonzalez (Unanimous Decision win 12), Jesse James Leija (KO 2), Pernell Whitaker (SD win 12), Hector 'Macho' Camacho (UD win 12), Ike Quartey (SD win 12), Arturo Gatti (KO 5), Francisco Javier Castillejo (UD win 12), and Fernando Vargas (KO 11).
. She soon passed away at 35. The group members are James Lance Bass, Joshua Scott Chasez (JC), Joseph Anthony Fatone Junior (Joey), Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick (Chris), and Justin Randall Timberlake. On her death bed she made him promise he'd win the gold, and he did. *NSYNC is a five-part pop music vocal group, specifically a boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida, USA.

He was, much like Ernie Gonzalez also, the United States' top Olympic boxing hope when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. 2002 "Girlfriend"(w/Nelly) #4 US, #2 UK. Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) —nicknamed the Golden Boy— is an American boxer who won the gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. 2001 "Gone" #11 US, #24 UK. 2001 "Pop" #19 US, #9 UK. 2000 "I'll Never Stop" #13 UK (Not released in US).

2000 "This I Promise You" #5 US, #21 UK. 2000 "It's Gonna Be Me" #1 US(2 weeks), #9 UK GOLD. 2000 "Bye Bye Bye" #4 US, #3 UK. 2000 "Music of My Heart" (with Gloria Estefan) #2 US, #34 UK GOLD.

1999 "I Drive Myself Crazy" #67 US. 1999 "God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You" #8 US. 1998 "Tearin' Up My Heart" #59 US, #9 UK. 1998 "I Want You Back" #5 UK.

Celebrity (2001, Jive) #1 (Debut) US (1 week) 5× Platinum, #12 UK. No Strings Attached (2000, Jive) #1 (Debut) US (8 weeks) 11× Platinum, #14 UK. The Winter Album (1998, BMG) (Not released in US). Home For Christmas (1998, RCA/BMG) #7 US 2× Platinum.

NSYNC (1998, RCA/BMG) #2 US 10× Platinum, #30 UK.