Huey P. Meaux

American record producer and studio owner (1929–2011)

Huey Purvis Meaux (March 10, 1929 – April 23, 2011) was an American record producer and the owner of various record labels and recording studios, including Crazy Cajun Records, Tribe Records, Tear Drop Records, Capri Records, and SugarHill Recording Studios. He later achieved notoriety after being convicted of child sex offenses committed at his recording studio.²

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Born Mar 10, 1929, died Apr 23, 2011.¹

Companies

CapriFounder⁹

Career

Occupation: composer, record producer.⁴

Date not recordedFounded Capri³

Personal life

BornMar 10, 1929, Louisiana⁵
DiedApr 23, 2011, Chambers County⁶
CitizenshipUnited States⁷

Legal issues and controversies

1967 conviction and pardon

In September 1966, Meaux and two other men were indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting a 16-year-old girl from Houston, Texas, to Nashville, Tennessee, in October 1965 for "purposes of prostitution" at a country music convention, a violation of the White-Slave Traffic Act. Meaux was convicted in January 1967 and sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Meaux's request for a pardon was approved by President Jimmy Carter on November 1, 1977.

1996 raid of record studio, trial, and lawsuit

In 1996, a police raid of Meaux's office turned up thousands of Polaroids and videos of underage girls in sexual situations, some being as young as eight. He pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a child, a drug possession charge, a child pornography charge, and another for jumping bail and briefly fleeing to Juárez, Mexico. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and would be released to a halfway house in 2002 but was returned to prison months later after receiving sexually explicit photographs from adult women. Meaux was released in 2007.