Boy George home 'had 13 cocaine bags' (Updated 3/08/06)

fengtau said:
Where did he get all that money? Is he still singing? Producing? Whatever he does for money?

All that money? For an eight-fucking-ball. I'm a sixteen year old high school student and I could easily buy an ounce, and I don't even have a job.
 
Boy George protests cocaine charges
Ninemsn
Sunday Feb 5, 2006

Ex-Culture Club diva Boy George has protested his innocence of a cocaine possession charge in Manhattan Criminal Court.

George, 44, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was arrested in October last year after police responding to a burglary call at his apartment in Manhattan found 13 plastic bags of cocaine.

He could face five years in prison if convicted.

The case was adjourned until March 8 after the singer's lawyer, Lou Freeman, asked for more time to prepare.

Freeman said the singer does not know where the drugs came from, and that he is a very social person who has many visitors to his home.

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fengtau said:
Where did he get all that money? Is he still singing? Producing? Whatever he does for money?

As far as I know, these days he's one of the people who runs/owns the Ministry of Sound nightclub in the UK... he DJs there and as you probably know MoS release a shitload of CDs and there are tours etc... so that's how he rakes in the cash now... and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some dealing going on within the club too (just think of Pablo Hassan in Human Traffic hehe)


Ahhh I remember how much I used to love Culture Club when I was about 7 years old... hehe... Then he had his heroin addiction a few years later and they started these "The Drug Offensive" campaigns or something here in Australia... all those rock/music magazines had these photos of what you're supposed to look like if you're a heroin addict, or on this drug or that drug etc etc... all that is what first used to scare me off drugs as a kid...

Of course... about 20 years later things are a little different :P
 
why would he have an 1/8th in 1/4g raps seems a bit odd.

I wonder if it was rocks, would makes sense being packaged in such small amounts.
 
All I have to say is, thank god for the police getting a dangerous criminal like Boy George off of the streets. I think we're all safer now. Once again, a great job by NY's finest. What a joke.
 
Johnny Boy - I was thinking he bought a gram of $10 dime bags [100mgs] of powder coke to shoot. Than again it could have been planted by his many 'visitors', ha.

To bad the coke werent in little vials with tops colored, red, gold, and green
red, gold and green

The irony would be too much
 
^ if the cops were bein a little rough when putting the cuffs on him did he say:

"Do you really want to hurt me, do you really want to make me cry?"

...sorry I had to join in the little joke with blahblahblahblah... =D
 
Boy George cocaine charge dropped

8 March 2006
BBC News


Singer Boy George has had a charge of possessing cocaine dropped by a New York court.

He admitted wasting police time over an incident last October and was sentenced to five days of community service and fined $1,000 (£575).

The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to falsely reporting a burglary at a brief hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court.

The singer was ordered to attend a drug rehabilitation programme.

The 44-year-old, who made his name as the front man of 1980s pop band Culture Club, attended the hearing.

Judge Anthony Ferrarar warned the defendant that he would have a criminal record which "never goes away".

The judge said to Mr O'Dowd: "You are admitting to me the following ... you called the police, you summoned them to your apartment by dialling 911 and reported that your apartment had been burglarised when in fact you knew your apartment had not been burglarised."

Police call

The singer must also pay court costs of $160 dollars (£91).

He is expected to leave New York on Wednesday, returning to the UK to attend Clouds rehabilitation centre in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

In a statement released after the hearing, Mr O'Dowd said: "I am relieved and happy that this case has been disposed of.

"I love New York and I'm looking forward to coming back and working in the States later this year."

He had maintained his innocence on the drug charges, which could have seen him sentenced to five and a half years in prison if convicted.

Mr O'Dowd was arrested after police were called to his Manhattan apartment.

Speaking after a hearing last month, Mr O'Dowd's lawyer Lou Freeman said his client had hosted a party and did not know who owned the drug.

Mr O'Dowd was charged with one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance after his arrest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4786814.stm
 
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