the "boy george gets busted again" thread ..

He has to hide his coke somewhere.

How could he not know, even if it's not (allegedly) his he knows.

Thirteen bags of cocaine were allegedly found in Boy George's New York home when he was arrested, papers released by Manhattan's district attorney show.
His lawyer, Lou Freeman, previously said a "small amount" of drugs was found at Boy George's apartment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4334236.stm

Is that a small amount for him?

Hmmm.

He's been done up like a kipper, guvnor, straight up 'e 'as

The fact that the alleged victim had already sold his story to two newspapers apparently counted for nothing.

The moral is we shouldn't really trust the word of anyone prepared to sell their story for money.

Boy George was jailed for 15 months today at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London after handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed

That's rough. A far more severe sentence than I was expecting.

RIP big man

hurr hurr he'll love prison amirite amirite

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/cu/cultut4984773663161190.jpg

This week's pap shots on dlisted tell their own tale... :-(

Boy George sentenced to 15 months in jail

By Mike Collett-White
Fri Jan 16, 2:17 pm ET
LONDON (Reuters) – Former Culture Club frontman Boy George was sentenced on Friday to 15 months in jail after being found guilty last month of falsely imprisoning a Norwegian male escort.
Tried under his real name George O'Dowd, the 47-year-old Briton denied the charge of false imprisonment at his London flat in April, 2007. After his conviction on December 5, judge David Radford had warned him that he faced a prison term.
But the length of the sentence was a surprise to lawyers who had expected a term of around three months, or even a suspended sentence.
Shocked family members and friends in a packed courtroom at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London gasped and broke down in tears after the sentence was read. O'Dowd, his head shaved and wearing a black coat and sweater, stared ahead impassively.
"This offence is so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment can be justified for it," Radford said.
He said the escort, Audun Carlsen, was "shocked, degraded and traumatized" at being detained and attacked by O'Dowd and an unidentified companion, and said a guilty plea "would have been true evidence of remorse and saved your victim from ... cross-examination."
The singer had told police he invited Carlsen back to his home after a cocaine-fueled pornographic photo shoot in January, 2007, because he suspected the Norwegian of stealing pictures from his computer.
"KIND AND GENEROUS"
During the two-week trial, Carlsen countered that the singer had handcuffed him and beaten him with a chain because he was angry he had refused to sleep with him when they first met.
O'Dowd did not give evidence during the trial, but before sentencing his lawyer Adrian Waterman urged leniency, saying O'Dowd had acted under the influence of illegal drugs, was recovering from his addiction and was a "kind and generous man."
O'Dowd and Carlsen behaved like "two drug-crazed idiots," he said, adding: "He (O'Dowd) is on the way back from that nether world. I am emboldened to say that there is enormous hope."
Waterman told the judge that O'Dowd may not be allowed to perform again in the United States and Japan because of his conviction, which carried a "truly enormous" financial cost.
The court had heard Carlsen describe how he sustained injuries during their meeting in April, 2007, from being beaten and handcuffed. O'Dowd's lawyer said the injuries were consistent with bondage gear the Norwegian had worn.
The singer shot to fame in the 1980s, thanks to a distinctive voice and androgynous image, and Culture Club topped the charts with hits like "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
But he has struggled with drug problems, and in 2006 was sentenced to do community service in New York after admitting to falsely reporting a burglary. Police responding to his call found 13 bags of cocaine in his apartment.
His lawyers said it was likely that he would actually spend six or seven months behind bars, but declined to say whether O'Dowd was planning to launch an appeal.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
(To read more about our entertainment news, visit our blog "Fan Fare" online at http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare)
Copyright © 2009 Reuters Limited.

hell of a drug

15 months is far too lenient. beating him with a CHAIN?

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/16/boy.george.prison/art.boy.george.afp.gi.jpg

goddamn boy george looks like shit. he looks like the kind of degenerate who would be beatin some homo nigga chained up to his wall

norwegian, ade. some homo norWEGIAN.

(xpost) on the plus side, based on his appearance no-one's going to bother him in prison

yeah, but looking like that, he's immediately top dog, right?