Boy George's Big Stash
Do they really want to hurt him?
According to a just released police complaint, authorities discovered more than 13 plastic bags of cocaine squirreled away in Boy George's New York City apartment during his arrest last Friday.
The former Culture Clubber, whose real name is George Dowd, was busted on suspicion of drug possession and filing a bogus police report after calling police to his pad claiming that it had been burglarized.
According to the complaint, officers found the baker's dozen of baggies near a computer. Each weighed more than an eighth of an ounce, enough to warrant a felony drug charge.
"He's charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree. This is the lowest felony," said Edison Alban, a spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney.
If found guilty, the 44-year-old George faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison.
Aside from visibly sobbing, the gender-bending singer kept his mouth shut during his arraignment early Saturday. He was subsequently released without bail and ordered back in court for a Dec. 19 hearing. The next day he hopped a plane to London and then refused to talk about his predicament with reporters.
His attorney, Lou Freeman, was not available for comment Wednesday, but on Saturday he told the New York Post that the coke in question did not belong to the '80s icon.
"He does not know where it came from," Freeman said. "He's had a lot of people in his house. A man who has something to hide does not call police."
George is no stranger to drug problems.
The androgynous entertainer was convicted in 1986 of heroin possession in England stemming from an incident in which two friends overdosed. George did a stint in rehab, but the fallout led to the demise of Culture Club, which had sold more than 20 million albums worldwide on the strength of such hits as "Karma Chameleon," "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?"
In 1995, George wrote about those tumultuous years in the club scene and how he finally managed to conquer his drug addiction in his autobiography, Take It Like a Man.
Hoping to mount a comeback, the flamboyant performer has recently toiled as a deejay and record producer.
He also wrote and starred in the autobiographical Broadway musical Taboo, which his pal Rosie O'Donnell helped finance to the tune of over $10 million.
But, the production flopped and after 16 previews and 100 performances, and closed in January 2004.
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