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Boy George Out of Jail ... For Now

June 27, 2006

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The former Culture Club singer got a scolding from the judge yesterday for not complying with the terms of his sentence on a drug charge. ''I'm not going to give you another chance,'' Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara warned.

O'Dowd pleaded guilty in March to third-degree false reporting of an incident. The charge followed his false report of a burglary at his Lower Manhattan apartment where police said they found cocaine.

Under his plea deal, O'Dowd was to enter a drug program in England and do five days of community service in Manhattan. He was also ordered to pay a fine of about $1,000 and to avoid arrest for the next six months. But O'Dowd didn't do the community service, and earlier this month, Ferrara demanded the 45-year-old singer show up in court or face arrest.

''You have to do the community service,'' Ferrara told O'Dowd on Monday. ''It's up to you whether you make it an exercise in humiliation or in humility. If you don't do the community service, I'll make you a promise: You're going through that door,'' Ferrara said, pointing toward the entrance to the jail cells.

O'Dowd left the courtroom and immediately went to the probation offices to get his assignment. ''I never minded doing the community service,'' he said as he walked down the hall to the office.

His lawyer, Louis Freeman, said O'Dowd always intended to comply with all the terms of his conditional discharge, but had proposed working with an HIV/AIDS charity while he was in an outpatient drug-treatment program.
The judge rejected that proposal.

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