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Agencie France Presse:

Pop star Boy George was on Friday found guilty by a court in London of falsely imprisoning a Norwegian male escort after a nude photoshoot at the famous singer’s apartment.

The former Culture Club frontman, 47, was accused of handcuffing 29-year-old Audun Carlsen and beating him, kicking him, repeatedly screaming “whore!” at him, and finally savagely thrashing him with a metal chain when he tried to escape the musician’s east London apartment following the photo session.

He will be sentenced on January 16.

Standing trial under his real name, George O’Dowd, at Snaresbrook Crown Court, the singer and disc jockey admitted to handcuffing Carlsen to his bed on April 28, 2007, as he investigated the Norwegian’s alleged tampering with his computer.

He denied assaulting Carlsen, or hitting him with a metal chain, suggesting to officers that the bruises suffered by the escort could have been there because of the fact that he was HIV positive.

The pair met on the gay website Gaydar, and Carlsen first went to O’Dowd’s apartment in January 2007, when they posed naked for the photoshoot and took cocaine.

Carlsen said the singer performed a sex act on him for “five seconds before I said no,” and claimed that the star later sent him a string of e-mails accusing him of hacking into his computer.

Despite that, Carlsen returned to O’Dowd’s flat in April 2007 and said that when he arrived, he was handcuffed to a wall hook, called a “whore,” punched repeatedly and beat with a metal chain when he tried to flee.

Explaining why the attack happened, Carlsen told the court: “I think he couldn’t handle the refusal — me not having sex with him.”