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Boy George in court | 05 septembre 2007

HE'S not the first person you would expect to see queuing outside the High Court in Manchester puffing on a cigarette.

But Boy George - troubled pop star, cult hero and former drug addict - diligently took his position in line as he waited to respond to accusations from a Cheshire promoter that he and his agent had caused her business to go under.

Shaven-headed and revealing a magnificent tattoo, Boy George smiled and chatted to the public as he waited to make his appearance in court.

Once on the witness stand, the former Culture Club star talked freely of his cocaine addiction and his high-profile New York arrest in 2005 as he responded to accusations brought by a Cheshire promoter that he and his agent had caused her business to go under.

Kasia Saleh, of Winwick, Warrington claims that by cancelling his performance at her Halloween launch night event at a club in Los Angeles in 2005, the DJ had created caused such bad press for her fledgling business - Club GAY USA - that it folded.

The 46-year-old musician had left his New York base and returned to England a few weeks before the gig after he was arrested for possession of cocaine.

Ms Saleh maintains that even though she managed to replace the star with top DJ Junior Vasquez, the Factory nightclub ended up only a quarter full and her operation was doomed.

She told the court she had set up a string of nights at the same club but her brand was irreversibly "tarnished".

Boy George came to court wearing a dark coat and a pair of wrap-around sunglasses. His short hair revealed a Star of David tattoo on his scalp. He signed autographs outside the court and in the waiting room for fans.

Representing Ms Saleh, Martin Budworth said Boy George and his then-agent Andria Law had agreed to do the gig with two other DJs at a reduced rate of $10,000 as a favour to launch his client's GAY USA brand.

Special

But Boy George, real name George O'Dowd, told His Honour Judge David Waksman that he hadn't known there was anything special about the night.

"It was just a gig for us," he said. "I didn't know she was building the business around it. I had been arrested on a drug charge which was very traumatic, I was addicted to taking cocaine and anyone with a brain cell can see that the worst place for me to be was in a night club because night clubs are full of drugs.

"I asked for my whole diary to be cleared."

Boy George, who gave a London address, told Manchester's Mercantile Court that Andria Law, who ran Red Parrot Agency at the time, had pocketed his fee without his knowledge.

"She was stealing money from me, it had been going on for a while and I'd ignored it. I'd known her since she was 16 - she'd been a fan," he said.

He said after trying in vain to resolve the matters, Andria failed to turn up to four or five meetings and "in effect resigned".

Mr Budworth said that in his statement Boy George claimed that he had not been in a fit mental state to perform but he asked why that wasn't backed up by any medical evidence.

Boy George said: "I was a drug addict, I was seeing a psychiatrist, I'm very aware that my mental state wasn't good at all - I was very ill.

"I haven't relied on the evidence of a psychiatrist because I'm telling the truth and I'm relying on that to be enough."

Boy George also revealed that he hadn't been able to commit to an earlier date that Ms Saleh had suggested because he practiced something called Nine Ki - a cross between numerology and feng shui, which meant he couldn't fly in certain directions on certain days.

Ms Saleh claims that she invested around £100,000 in total to set up the launch night and the following gigs - including rebranding the first one.

Edmund Cullen, representing Boy George, said Ms Saleh hadn't produced enough evidence to support her claims of costs.

He also claimed that even if his client had appeared the launch night and the business would have flopped. He also told the court that Ms Saleh had been disqualified as a company director by the Secretary of State for 10 years after the dishonest behaviour of her co-directors.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1015/1015445_boy_george_in_court.html

Publié par dominic à 12:40:47 dans boy george | Commentaires (2) | Permaliens

05-09-2007 18:27

De momo Sujet: Pas joli joli
Disons que cette photo n'est pas à son avantage. On dirait une personne obèse! Je ne comprends pas pourquoi, George ne fait pas de régime, d'autant plus qu'avec son look et si il perdait 1O kilos il n'en serait plus que resplandissant.

05-09-2007 13:12
Fat !!!

De Frenchie boy Sujet: Fat !!! Url: [Liens]
Franchement pas géniale cette photo, il devrait arrêter la bière !!! Bises à tous

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