Nailed: Boy George Will Miss O-nauguration He Penned Song For With Video
Boy George Sent Down For Attack
Singer-turned-DJ Boy George has been jailed for 15 months for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.
The former Culture Club frontman imprisoned Audun Carlsen during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his flat in east London.
Sentencing the musician - real name George O’Dowd - the judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said he was guilty of “gratuitous violence”.
The judge also condemned his “premeditated”, “callous”, and “degrading” actions which “traumatised” his victim.
Norwegian Mr Carlsen, 29, fled in his underpants and alerted police after the attack, in April 2007.
It happened after O’Dowd accused Mr Carlsen of stealing photos of himself from a laptop, taken when the pair met three months earlier.
The 47-year-old was convicted of detaining the escort against his will last month.
The court heard the pair first made contact on a social networking site primarily for gay and bisexual men.
The prosecution said their first meeting went well and they parted on good terms, with O’Dowd paying the younger man £300 of the £400 agreed.
In the weeks which followed, they exchanged emails in which the singer accused Mr Carlsen of tampering with his computer.
He asked to see Mr Carlsen again and the latter agreed, but the meeting soon turned violent.
After calling Mr Carlsen into his bedroom, O’Dowd and another man leapt on him, wrestled him to the floor and started beating him.
The victim was dragged along the floor towards the bed and a manacle was put on his right hand and attached to a hook drilled into the wall.
The second man left, Mr Carlsen said, and O’Dowd fetched a plastic box containing chains, sex toys and leather straps.
Mr Carlsen told the court he was able to unscrew the hook from the wall using handcuffs as a tool.
He ran to the door with O’Dowd chasing him, lashing out with a metal chain.
O’Dowd has previous convictions as a juvenile in 1977, and for a Class B drugs offence 10 years later.
He was given community service in New York in 2006 after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city.
‘Drug-crazed idiot’ Boy George jailed for 15 months for chaining male escort to wall and beating him
Boy George was sentenced to 15 months jail today for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.
The 47-year-old former Culture Club singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, imprisoned Audun Carlsen during a drug-fuelled naked photoshoot at his London flat.
Sentencing the musician at Snaresbrook Crown Court in East London, Judge David Radford told him he was guilty of ‘gratuitous violence’.
The judge condemned his ‘premeditated, callous, and degrading drug-fuelled actions which traumatised’ his victim.
The judge added: ‘He was denied his dignity.’
Blank-faced O’Dowd glanced briefly at family members in the public gallery, who gasped as his jail term was read out.
There were emotional scenes outside court as family members and supporters of the pop star reacted to his sentence.
One male family member kicked one of the courtroom doors, shouting: ‘Fifteen months!’
Mr Carlsen, a 29-year-old Norwegian, fled in his underpants and alerted police after the attack in Shoreditch, East London, in April 2007.
Violence had flared after O’Dowd accused Mr Carlsen of stealing photos of himself from a laptop, taken when the pair met three months earlier.
O’Dowd has previous convictions for going equipped for theft as a juvenile in 1977, and a Class B drugs offence ten years later.
In 2006, in New York, he was given community service after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in the city.
O’Dowd, who was convicted of false imprisonment last year, denied performing unprotected oral sex on Mr Carlsen as he sat naked in a chair during their first meeting.
(UGH! … I’m done … CONTINUE READING … if you must)
Get the cock out of your mouth and sing, Georgie Boy … Sing it for fellow boy-toy O`Barry:
OH! I almost forgot … Someone sent me this in an email a week or so ago, and I have since seen it on other blogs …
I can’t seem to figure it out. Some sort of riddle.
“What do all these people have in common?”
Can you help? I feel so fuckin’ dumb-blonde …
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