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press mirror + Boy George sobs 'They'll kill me' to inmate | 18 janvier 2009

Cell mate tells of blind panic when he told Boy George: 'You're gay and a celebrity - the other prisoners will come after you.'

Terrified Boy George wept as he was sent to prison and said: I can't go to jail... they will try to kill me because of who I am.

The fallen pop idol broke down and revealed his fears to a fellow prisoner in a court holding cell before he was sent to tough Pentonville Prison in North London.

Richard Lyttle, a father of five held in the same cells on a driving charge, told the bloated former Culture Club singer how to survive life at the category B prison.

But he warned him: Prisoners will be out to beat you up.

Richard, 40, from Romford, East London, said: When I walked into the cell I saw this fat, bald bloke sitting in the corner crying like a baby. He was shaking like a leaf, a total wreck.

He kept sobbing over and over, I can't go to jail I'll be killed.'

He was crying about how he was just a fat old pop star that everyone was laughing at.

George, 47 (real name George O'Dowd) was put in a holding cell at Snaresbrook Court, East London, with five other men on Friday afternoon. He was held there after a judge sentenced him to 15 months for falsely imprisoning Norwegian male escort Audun Carlsen, 29, and thrashing him with a chain.

Richard said that as he walked into the cell one of the other prisoners was hurling abuse at the gay singer. The bloke was shouting, Don't talk to him, he is a batty boy.' (offensive Jamaican term for a homosexual).

I walked over to him and said, What's the problem, mate?'

He looked and me and said, I'm George O'Dowd.' I was confused and he screamed, I'm Boy George.' He broke down in tears and couldn't stand up because he was so upset.

All the other prisoners were shouting at him to stop making so much noise so he just kept his head bowed. I felt a bit sorry for him.

Unemployed Richard, who was later bailed for driving while disqualified, has been locked up three times for assorted driving offences and for attempting to obtain money with malice.

He explained to George how he would have his mobile phone taken from him when he arrived and that he would be strip-searched before being put in a prison uniform and locked up.

Richard said: He was shaking as he listened and kept asking what other inmates would make of him. I warned him that because of who he was and because he was gay people would be out to beat him up.

George, who sold more than 25 million records with his band Culture Club in the 1980s, then broke down again, mumbling that nobody would have any sympathy for him.

Richard said: He said he felt all alone and wouldn't be able to cope in prison. He was gutted, emotional and just all over the place.

As Richard was called back into court from the cell, George grabbed his hand and begged him to look after him if they both ended up in Pentonville. He was pleading with me to look after him. I said I wasn't going to be sent down and he just broke down again, he said.

I joked that it wasn't all bad and said he might even find himself a new boyfriend inside prison. But he just started crying again. As I walked out he was a shaking, quivering wreck. There is no way he will cope inside.

Yesterday George, a former heroin addict and a recovering cocaine addict, was put on suicide watch after arriving at Pentonville.

He was also moved to the hospital wing to keep him away from the prison's other 1,000-plus inmates.

Jail insiders revealed the former singer was mobbed by other prisoners when he walked into the reception area, some asking for his autograph. A jail source told the Sunday Mirror: Governors took the decision to move Boy George to the hospital wing for his own safety.

He is openly gay, and also a celebrity, which makes him a massive target for somebody who wants to make a name for themselves.

Boy George would be extremely vulnerable in a normal wing and his safety could not be guaranteed.

Prison guards have been told to regularly check to make sure he is not harming himself, or is in danger of attack.

While in the hospital wing where Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil was recently held George will undergo psychological assessment.

His family and friends gasped as he was jailed for 15 months on Friday. In April 2007 he shackled Audun to a hook on a bedroom wall in his flat in Shoreditch, East London, and thrashed him with a chain.

George told police he detained Carlsen, who he had met through the Gaydar website, while he investigated suspicions that the Norwegian had tampered with his laptop computer. But Carlsen said the singer concocted that story after tying him up as punishment for not having sex with him at an earlier meeting.

Before jailing George, Judge David Radford told him: Your pre-meditated, calculated, callous and

humiliating handcuffing and detention of Mr Carlsen shocked, degraded and traumatised him.

Because of his conviction, George is now unlikely to be granted a visa allowingt to perform again in the

US and Japan, where he is still a huge star.

nick.owens@sundaymirror.co.uk

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/01/17/they-ll-kill-me-sobs-boy-george-115875-21049048/

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THE SUN | 18 janvier 2009

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MAIL ON LINE NEWSPAPER | 17 janvier 2009

'Drug-crazed idiot' Boy George jailed for 15 months for chaining male escort to wall and beating him

Boy George was jailed for 15 months yesterday for falsely imprisoning a male escort.

The former Culture Club singer - real name George O'Dowd - shackled Audun Carlsen to a wall of his flat and lashed him with a chain while shouting insults at him.

The 29-year-old Norwegian managed to free himself and fled in his underpants into the street, screaming for help.

Facing the music: George O'Dowd on the way to court, where he was condemned for his 'premeditated, callous, drug-fuelled actions' which 'traumatised' his victim

In court yesterday, O'Dowd's own barrister admitted that his client's career had hit rock bottom and likened the behaviour of the two men to 'two drug-crazed idiots'.

Adrian Waterman added that the cost of the incident would be 'truly enormous', adding: 'He will not now very likely ever be permitted to perform in the U.S and Japan where he has a very, very significant fan base. The humiliation of this is going to live with him for ever.'

The singer's defence team also said he would struggle to raise the £5,000 he has been ordered to pay in costs.

Boy George seen arriving at Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London where he received a 15-month jail term

Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London had heard that the incident happened in April 2007. Matters turned to violence after O'Dowd suspected Mr Carlsen had hacked into a laptop and stolen pictures taken when the pair first met three months earlier.

O'Dowd, who noticeably gained weight during his trial, was convicted of false imprisonment last year. Yesterday he was sentenced by Judge David Radford, who told him he had been guilty of 'gratuitous violence'.

Condemning his 'premeditated', ' callous' and drug-fuelled frenzy which 'traumatised' Mr Carlsen, the judge said his victim had been 'deprived of his liberty and his human dignity'.

'Lashed': Audun Carlsen

He said the offence was 'so serious that only an immediate sentence of imprisonment can be justified'.

O'Dowd has repeatedly denied swinging the chain at the younger man.

But Mr Carlsen claimed the theft story was concocted to justify the 'punishment' meted out to him for refusing to have sex with O'Dowd at an earlier meeting.

The pair had made contact through the Gaydar website. Heather Norton, prosecuting, said their first meeting went well until the singer suspected Mr Carlsen of hacking in to his computer.

They parted on good terms and O'Dowd paid the younger man £300 of the £400 they had agreed.

In the weeks that followed, they exchanged emails in which the singer accused Mr Carlsen of tampering with his computer. But he eventually appeared to relent and arranged to see the younger man again.

At the second meeting, O'Dowd beckoned his victim into his bedroom, before he and an unidentified man leapt on him, wrestled him to the floor and started beating him.

Mr Carlsen was dragged along the floor towards O'Dowd's bed and a manacle was put on his right hand and attached to a hook drilled in the wall.

The second man left, Mr Carlsen said, and O'Dowd fetched a plastic box containing chains, sex toys and leather straps.

Giving evidence, Mr Carlsen told the court: 'George hit me, slapped me, and screamed, "****ing whore, ****. Now you are going to get what you deserve".'

Anger: Kevin O'Dowd, left, outside court after his brother was jailed

The despair of Boy George's friends and family at hearing the prison sentence

He said he was able to unscrew the hook from the wall using handcuffs as a tool. He ran to the door with O'Dowd pursuing him while wielding the metal chain. The victim managed to escape and ran out into the street.

O'Dowd previously suggested that bruises Mr Carlsen sustained could have been due to the fact he was HIV positive.

The singer did not give evidence in court - his brother David O'Dowd said it was because he wanted to protect their elderly mother.

The flamboyant singer has repeatedly reinvented himself as a solo artist, club DJ and writer of musicals

But Mr Waterman said the former star's continuing battle with cocaine addiction had contributed to his actions.

'He was not himself when addled by the habitual and relatively long-lasting using of illegal drugs,' he said.

But he said O'Dowd was making a concerted effort to deal with his drug addiction.

He added: 'This defendant is a kind and generous man who is particularly mindful of others' needs. He is the antithesis of the haughty bullying star.'

As he heard his fate, O'Dowd looked worriedly towards the public gallery, where relatives gasped as they heard the length of the jail term. One male family member kicked one of the courtroom doors, shouting: 'Fifteen months!'

It was all a far cry from the heights O'Dowd scaled with Culture Club in the 1980s. They had a string of hits and sold millions of records in the UK and abroad.

But in 1985 O'Dowd was exposed as a heroin addict and his career plunged into freefall. Drugs problems and internal feuding led to Culture Club's demise in 1987.

However, the singer bounced back to launch a successful career as a solo artist in the late 1980s and in the 1990s he reinvented himself as a DJ.

But there was more scandal in 2006 when he admitted falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in New York. He was ordered to perform community service and found himself sweeping the city's streets.

O'Dowd was given community service in New York in 2006 after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF BOY GEORGE'S CAREER

Boy George has courted controversy ever since bursting on to the music scene in the 1980s.

The entertainer caused shockwaves with his outlandish clothing and androgynous appearance as lead singer of the pop band Culture Club.

Since then the flamboyant singer from Eltham, London, has repeatedly reinvented himself as a solo artist, club DJ and writer of musicals, while simultaneously attracting headlines for a variety of scandals.

Boy George, centre, with Culture Club in their Eighties heyday

Boy George was first thrust into the limelight with Culture Club's 1982 number one hit Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

The band followed that with another huge number one, Karma Chameleon, in 1983, and sold millions of records in the UK and abroad.

But controversy has always stalked the musician and in the mid-1980s he was exposed by the tabloids as a heroin addict.

Further drugs problems and internal feuding led to Culture Club's eventual demise shortly after.

The singer bounced back to launch another successful career as a solo artist in the late 1980s, and reinvented himself once again a decade later as a critically acclaimed DJ.

In 2003, Boy George moved to the US when his autobiographical musical Taboo transferred to Broadway.

But his previous drugs troubles returned to haunt him in 2005 when he was arrested in New York on suspicion of possessing cocaine.

The charge was eventually dropped, but the singer was given community service in 2006 after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his New York apartment.

The revelations from his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court have thrust Boy George, who famously once said he preferred 'a nice cup of tea' to sex, into the public eye for the wrong reasons once again.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1119427/Drug-crazed-idiot-Boy-George-jailed-15-months-chaining-male-escort-wall-beating-him.html

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Lesley Ann Jones: Pourquoi j'ai peur pour mon cher ami Boy George | 17 janvier 2009

Il aurait pu être pire. Il aurait pu être la vie.

Mais sachant George, quand il se réveille à l'intérieur sordide de sa cellule, ce matin, le premier peut-être de 450 jours derrière les barreaux, je doute qu'il va se sentir reconnaissants envers le juge et le jury qui a mis là-bas.

Aching, épuisé, humilié au-delà des mots, il ne sera guère à la hâte railleries de ses codétenus. Je peux seulement imaginer son sifflet hits Do You Really Want To Hurt Me et Karma Chameleon par sneering lèvres. Il est bien conscient que ce sera pas de la bouillie de pique-nique. Depuis son arrestation en avril dernier, il aura pensé à rien d'autre.

Il pourrait lui-même l'acier contre la taquineries, mai et même trouver le courage de revenir tease.
Car il n'est pas un match de George waspish à son meilleur, et il est réputé pour donner aussi bien comme il est.

Je ne peux pas être le seul à avoir senti plutôt désolé pour lui à l'audience qu'il avait été condamné à 15 mois, à Sa Majesté.

Chacun de nous a une fois compté parmi ses amis personnels doit aujourd'hui se sentent le désespoir et la honte qu'il en est venu à ce point - le dernier clou dans le cercueil de son alter ego superstar, qui a statué sur les ondes de Culture Club, et dont les voix ont été la soul de l'aide de la bande unique Do They Know It's Christmas.

Nous avons été des amis proches une fois. Si près que, par moments, nous avons partagé ensemble des lits, mais seulement pour dormir. Je pilfer sa brosse à dents, il avait emprunter ma cuillère de céréales, nous avons partagé les pyjamas.

George a toujours été bien conscient de son homosexualité, et était à l'aise avec elle. Il n'a pas seulement envie femelles. Il a fait de lui le plus sûr d'ami avoir.

Plus tard, quand je suis arrivé à travailler pour le courrier que le rock et pop correspondant, il m'a baptisé «Rag-Hag. Je l'aimais à la folie.

George et moi avons rencontré à la fin des années quatre-vingt, lorsque la Grande-Bretagne se trouve au bord de la pop et du rock relance qui a été de prendre le monde par surprise.

Nous avions commencé à voir les uns les autres autour de Londres, en moins grand clubs qui fixent la scène pour de nouveaux romantisme. Plus tard, j'ai interviewé pour Channel 4.

George, dont les médias étiquetés' Gender-Bender pour son excentrique et farfelu drag-queen style, une coupe et irrésistiblement incomparablement androgyne tiret.

Il a toujours été un enfer d'une entrée - en dépit du fait qu'il était les années quatre-vingt, et tout le monde il attend ridicule.

Béni avec humour, chaleur et une méchante langue, George ouvre sa bouche et l'ensemble de chambres qui tombent sur de rire.

Et il a aimé un genoux-up à toute heure du jour ou de nuit. Il était toujours en place pour lui, ou quoi que ce soit où il était.

Ce que peu de gens savent ce qui est une sorte homme qu'il est. Bien que je n'ai pas vu la société depuis quelques années, je doute que peut avoir changé.

Il ya eu beaucoup de ragots sur sa «cruauté», son «tempérament vicieux», son «mal traînée» depuis son arrestation pour avoir battu Audun Carlsen avec une chaîne métallique.

George nie toujours - et refuse d'infliger des blessures de son corps, Carlsen.

Toujours une grande et imposante figure, je dois dire qu'il a utilisé pour sortir de sa façon de protéger les plus petits et plus vulnérables que lui.

S'il a eu recours à payer pour le sexe - sans doute parce que la perspective de bonnes relations est sur le déclin - ce qui fait de lui un homme à plaindre, de ne pas être puni.

La première grande crise de sa vie a pris la tête par une douce soirée d'été en 1986, lorsque son jeune frère David O'Dowd a révélé à la presse que George a été une lutte £ 800-a-jour héroïne habitude.

David a dit le monde à ce sujet, dit-il, parce qu'il était terrifié que son frère allait mourir.

Comme un reporter sur ce document, je tiretés à George's Maida Vale écurie maison. Quand je suis arrivé, il a atteint pour moi à travers la nuée de paparazzi sur sa porte et m'a traîné intérieur.

Il a la peau jaunâtre, émaciés. Je ne l'avais pas vu depuis plusieurs mois, et j'ai été en état de choc. «Je suis en train de mourir", at-il murmuré. «Je suis un junkie. J'ai huit grammes par jour d'héroïne habitude. Et ce n'est pas le nombre de semaines à vivre. "

J'étais sans voix. Mais je suis allé à venir et écrit de l'entrevue, il a demandé, dans laquelle il a dit au Mail: «Je suis le plus grand junkie dans le monde, et tout le monde se moque de moi."

Il est navrant. Pour l'ensemble de sa musicalité, la capacité d'écriture de chansons, magnétique présence sur scène, sa joue, son don de l'gab, George a été accroché, une toxicomane. Et il a été l'assassinat lui-même. A la fin, il a tiré lui-même ensemble, fait un effort, a tenté de secouer les habitudes.

Il a tenté sa damnedest à forger une carrière solo pop, mais à la fin réglée pour un club comme un DJ à Londres et à New York. Nous avons tous à gagner leur vie.

La seule chose qu'il n'a jamais été perdu de sa notoriété. George a gardé sa place dans les manchettes de toutes ces années.

J'ai été choqué par ses 2001 Tony désignés musical Taboo, pas moins, car il présentait un revient, porte-à-porte féminin hack qui semble louche, comme moi (ce qui sur terre est-il penser?)

Et j'ai été attristé qu'il a gagné lui-même un ordre de service communautaire pour possession de cocaïne, et a trouvé lui-même balayer les rues de New York après avoir admis à tort signaler un cambriolage à son appartement en 2006. Je ne pense pas qu'il puisse sombrer plus bas, mais qu'est-ce que je sais?

Pourtant, lorsqu'il ya de la vie, il ya de l'espoir. George mai être, mais il n'est pas pour de bon.
Bien que je doute de la prison lui fera plus forte -, il trouve une porte, pour dire le moins - je pense qu'il ne sera pas le tuer.

Il a cette fâcheuse tendance à avoir le dernier rire, vous voyez.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1120268/Lesley-Ann-Jones-Why-I-fear-dear-friend-Boy-George.html

(excusez la traduction.... si quelqu'un peut m'aider.... lol)

l'article journal :

http://www.martyrmantras.com/boygeorgeuk/img/scans/jan09/mail2.jpg

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20,21,22,23,27,28,29,30 December 2009.

Boy George needs little introduction…he shot to international stardom in the 80’s as the front man of one of the UK’s biggest exports Culture Club and has remained one of the world’s most recognisable iconic figures…however George himself says…’I am sometimes recognised for all the wrong reasons’. In advance of his 2010 European Tour George will perform a set of exclusive intimate shows at Leicester Square Theatre…stripped down, acoustic, unplugged whatever cliché you want to call it this set of exclusive concerts lies bare George as an artist, singer, lyricist and musician – this is simply ‘The Man and his Music’… performing his biggest hits from Culture Club, his solo career, new writing and covers from his own music heroes. DON’T MISS ONE OF THE BEST SOUL VOICES AND MOST COLOURFUL PERSONALITIES BRITIAN AS EVER PRODUCED!
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