NEWS: Boy George Plays Crying Game with NYC Cops

MUSIC: Boy George Plays Crying Game with NYC Cops

Gender-bender '80s pop sensation Boy George will serve out a community service sentence by working in a hospice for HIV sufferers. Last fall he falsely reported a burglary to which the police then arrived at his Manhattan loft and found bags of cocaine.



The former star of Culture Club escaped the maximum penalty for the drugs charge-- five years in the can. Still, he's not impressed.



"I don't think it's a light sentence at all," said George. "What happened with me and the police was quite horrible and quite shocking."



(Considering I once got slapped with comm. service for rollerblading in the street [who knew?], the dude should really consider himself lucky.)



So why did the guy who claims his "worst fear" was getting arrested in America instigate his own demise? Well, he had simply "forgotten" that he called the cops (after a rent boy encounter gone sour) and blames his "constant paranoia" for the 911. Afterwards, "There was a terribly sad photograph of Boy George sobbing on a park bench after his indictment." You reap what you sow, Georgie.



George admits that his guilty pleasure is "The male of the species. In all its flavours and complications." Although he spends six hours a day cruising the gay sites for new "friends," he insists he's "not this deranged Internet addict."



Boy also bases major life decisions around Nine Ki, a cross between numerology and feng shui. The practice forbids flying in certain directions on certain days, which has cost him to lose out on lucrative DJ bookings, where his average wage is £7000 per night.



A well-documented ex-heroin addict, George has defended junkie Pete Doherty to MTV, saying "What'd be interesting would be if he was like Mick Jagger or someone that has a history, but he's made one record. It says something about the state of our industry that we're so desperate for a rock and roll star…"



My favorite Boy George moment is during the making of "Do They Know It's Christmas" when he told the Live Aid cameras how "camp" George Michael was, trying to out him over a decade before it was official. The man's got balls... or does he?





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The 80's
*shiver*

I've got little against Boy George, but I'll never like astrology. Or feng shui.

You know, the ancient Chinese believed that passing gas, burping, and sneezing would shorten your lifespan; the logic was that you only had so much breath in your body.

Just because something has been around for awhile doesn't make it credible, even if it did happen to know that George Michael is gay.

All of this leads me to believe that Boy George knows more than God does, bags of cocaine and cries of being forced to help the unfortunate notwithstanding.

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[Edited on May 22, 2006 5:54PM]

damn, he was pretty for a boy...george

I wonder if anyone there will tell him that trying to paint himself a jawline isn't really working so well nowadays.

I love boy george, And i also love how a drug charge article co-exists with the talk of his sexuality and "The man's got balls... or does he?" chitter chatter. Totally relevant.

I don't think the Old Testament said a preist's blessing could get rid of mildew…it said the house could not be occupied until the priest pronounced it clean.

The process of pronouncing it clean involved first removing the tenants for a week and scrubbing the house down. If that didn't work, the tenants left for a longer period, and portions of the house had to be "stripped away", burned and rebuilt. If THAT didn't work, the whole structure had to be burned.

Sounds pretty much like today's solution to structural mold and mildew.

Although I agree Astrology and Numerology (two separate concepts) are nonsense :-)

I thought this was going to be about Mrs. O'Dowd getting romantically involved with a male police detective only to later reveal his wang.

Wow, that's really mean spirited article.

He doesn't defend Pete Doherty in that interview, and the pull quote is pretty solid evidence of that. He's slagging on him (is that the correct use of "slagging"?)

I interpreted the quote more as "hey, give the kid a break" than a slag off. I see your point though.

Not my intention. I like George, I just hope he can make good choices for himself going forward and stay out of trouble.