Boy George Busted In Alleged SM Assault
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: April 30, 2007 - 11:00 am ET
(London) Former Culture Club frontman Boy George is reportedly again in trouble with the law.
The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was arrested after a male escort claimed to have chained to a wall in a London apartment a tabloid reported Monday.
The Mirror reports that George was arrested on suspicion of assault and false imprisonment. He was released on bail while the investigation continues the paper reported.
Auden Carlsen, 28, claims to have met the singer on a popular British gay dating site. He told the Mirror that he agreed to go to George's apartment lat Saturday night to pose for photographs for a fee of about $750 and on the stipulation there would be no sex.
But after he arrived at the apartment Carlsen claims to have been attacked by George and another man.
"I was convinced I was going to die," he told the Mirror.
"George handcuffed me to a hook by the bed as they held me down."
Carlsen said he managed to get the hook out of the wall and escape in only his underwear. He called police from a local news vendor's stand.
Metropolitan police do not release the names of people under investigation until formal charges are laid.
A police spokesperson would say only that: "We investigated reports of an alleged forced imprisonment and common assault made by a 28-year-old man. A man in his 40s was arrested in connection with the investigation."
Last year a judge in New York City sentenced George to five days of community service after being convicted of filing a false police report.
The singer had called police in October 2005 with a bogus report of a burglary by a male prostitute at his lower Manhattan apartment. When police went to investigate they found cocaine inside.
He was originally charged with drug offenses but under an agreement with prosecutors he pleaded guilty to the lesser charges and worked off his sentence picking garbage.
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