Sunday, April 29, 2007

Boy George Arrested For Imprisoning Male Escort


Singer Boy George is in a heap of trouble after being accused by a male escort of kidnap, imprisonment and threatened torture.

The alleged victim, 28-year-old Norwegian Auden Carlsen, says he met Boy George on the homosexual dating website Gaydar, and was invited by the singer to go to his East London flat at midnight and pose for pictures. Once at the flat, however, George and another man allegedly slapped handcuffs on Carlsen and made him a captive. Said Carlsen to Britain's Star newspaper:

George said he was popping out for milk at 5am. I heard him come back and I walked into his bedroom wearing just my white underpants and a T-shirt. I was jumped on by George and another man. ... George handcuffed me to a hook by the bed as they held me down.

Carlsen says that, after the other man left, George took out some kinky sex toys and began threatening to physically harm him. It was then that Carlsen pulled the hook from the wall and fled, finally alerting police who arrested George on suspicion of assault and false imprisonment. George has since made bail, but when reached for comment, was predictably not available.

George, an '80s pop-icon who fell on hard times thanks to heroin addiction, has had other run-ins with the law, including a famous incident in which he was convicted of drug possession in New York, and sentenced to a community service stint that included picking up garbage on the streets of Manhattan. George has also had some well-publicized temper-tantrums, like the one last October that saw him verbally abusing a group of young people who taunted him at an awards show. And, in general, the guy is just a pathetic old queen who doesn't realize that no one gives a damn about him anymore. Like Elton John but with a sunnier disposition.

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