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Boy George scares the crap out of me. And male or female, he should scare the crap out of you too. If you are within 200 yards of him at any given moment there is a 7 out of 10 chance that he will handcuff you to a radiator and threaten to do incredibly degrading things to you. Seriously, the guy is all-out batshit insane. Assuming the charges against him are true, which… it sorta seems like they are.
George’s trial for false imprisonment and other really horrifying things (some legalese for you there) started today in London.
A Norwegian escort told a court Monday that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer. The former Culture Club singer is on trial for the false imprisonment of 29-year-old Audun Carlsen. The 47-year-old singer, who is standing trial under his real name, George O’Dowd, denies the charge.
Carlsen told London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court that he met the singer through a Web site and went to his London home for a naked photo shoot. After the encounter Boy George sent a series e-mails accusing Carlsen of hacking into his computer, but Carlsen nonetheless agreed to return for a second photo session several weeks later in April 2007.
Carlsen told the jury that when he arrived Boy George and another man held him down and beat him before the singer handcuffed him to a hook in the bedroom wall. “George was slapping me and beating me and punching me and screaming things,” Carlsen said. Carlsen said he was able to escape by unscrewing the hook and running for the door. “I took a bit of time getting the door open and he had a metal chain that he was hitting me with,” Carlsen said.
Carlsen said he ran into the street clad only in his underwear. The court was shown photographs of red welts on Carlsen’s head and injuries to his arm which he said had been inflicted during the attack.
[From the Huffington Post]
Carlsen’s testimony sounds consistent with the published reports of the accounts he gave to the police. I’m guessing the defense’s main angle will be to try to discredit him by using his profession against him and/or finding character witnesses to do the same. Unfortunately for Boy George, it’s more than possible for the prosecution to do the same with him. He’s had a long list of relatively minor infractions including some drug charges.
People joke about this story because it’s so bizarre, but honestly it’s really horrifying. If you take out the name “Boy George” and just make it some random man, you realize this was a really terrible crime. The brutality is especially disturbing and hints at a deep problem. Combined with drugs, it’s easy to guess that Boy George may very well be a threat to others. I cannot imagine how he’d be able to survive prison, but I think there’s a decent chance that’s where he’ll end up.
Here’s Boy George deejaying at Queen Night Club in Paris in July of 2007. Images thanks to Fame.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Boy George, Legal Troubles, Trials
14 Responses to “Boy George’s escort abuse trial underway”
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Sick Bastard! I was reading a tidbit (A Blind item)on another blog and the statement read (something like this) what “male” celebrity likes to play it kinda rough (during sex) and he was with a young man (barely legal) and the kid had to be hospitalized and the “celebrity” paid the parents off…now I’m thinking was it this fool!
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CB/Roni what are you on about? Hmmm let me see…a 7 out of 10 chance BG will get you if you go anywhere near him? Oh and he’s a gay man that likes rough sex, that means he MUST be responsible for any seedy shennanigans that are going on.
Come off it.
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Do you really want to hurt me?
Do you really want to make me cry?I know all there is to know about the crying game.
Hmmm
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Blind item solved!!!
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@ fabulous ~ This wasn’t a gay man liking rough sex; this was a man imprisoning and beating another man, until the victim escaped.
Had Jeffrey Dahmer’s last victim not escaped, Dahmer would still be out there killing people.
Boy George IS scary!
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Creepy as f*ck, but…I do love how he applies his makeup (I’m a burlesque performer. Sue me.)
What really skeeves me out about this story is how Boy George apparently had a “hook in the bedroom wall”. I really cannot see a reason for having something like that in your room if this wasn’t something one did regularly. -
“It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
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That blind item wasn’t Boy George, not according to what I read. The majority of guesses pointed to a very different, much higher profile A+ lister. And fitted with other rumours floating around about this same person who shall remain nameless….
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Carlsen’s not exactly looking like the Virgin Mary here either. Maybe we should wait for the details and see the outcome before writing George off as a homocidal maniac.
And what’s wrong with having a hook on the bedroom wall? I have hooks on my bedroom wall. I find them strangely useful for hanging things on.
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You (ZOMG) Deviant geronimo!!!
Next you’ll be saying you buy strips of leather with metal buckle-like attachments for holding up your trousers 
I don’t know what to think about this - is it surprising he’s into “rough trade”, himself and Marilyn used to have some real knock-down fights in the 80s, and he’s apparently a completely different man when he’s on drugs and had a difficult enough upbringing.
(I do know, however, that JayBird would be in trouble with my mother if she read this - all you’d ever hear out of her or my dearly departed granny was “Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh poor Boy George”
) I suppose we’ll see what else comes out in the court-case. But remember, it is still an alleged crime until such time as someone is convicted.
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!! Yeah, we’re on the same page here.
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omg..being a fan. and reading what i`m reading. it really is disturbing when you read what went on. even I know that it`s wrong to hurt somebody and think you`ll get away with it .( George was probley thinking oh he wont tell) can we say bye bye George
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Call me crazy, but IF the claim by Boy George are true, and IF this man WAS hacking his system, he deserves a good beatdown (not an “imprisonment” or being victimized in this way). Anyone who would hack into another person’s computer system deserves some hell.
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Wow. That was a great point about taking out the name “boy george”. When its a flamboyant longtime celebrity it seems easier to laugh, but that really is disturbing.
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