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Article: 'Those were not my drugs,' Boy George insists as he faces 15 years in a US prison He topped the charts with Culture Club, but now the singer has been charged with possession after police found cocaine at his New York apartment. Anthony Barnes reports
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2005
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Shaven-headed, paunchy and wearing a shapeless T-shirt for cult
band the Misfits, Boy George was yesterday almost unrecognisable as
the man who found fame as the 'gender bender' chart star of the early
1980s.
Emerging from a Manhattan courthouse in the early hours, the
singer looked pale and grim-faced, stripped of the trademark layers
of garish make-up as he faced the prospect of up to 15 years in
prison after being charged with drug possession.
The 44-year-old singer, who now lives in New York and was charged
under his real name, George O'Dowd, last night protested his
innocence. His lawyer, Louis M Freeman, said: 'Boy George doesn't
know where the drugs are from. He's a very social ...