British pop star Boy George was arrested at his home in New York on Friday and charged with drug possession and making a false report, police said.
A police spokesman said officers went to the former Culture Club
frontman's apartment in Lower Manhattan shortly after 3:00am when the singer reported a burglary.
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On arrival, the police determined that no burglary had taken place and also discovered a small stash of cocaine, the spokesman said.
The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and falsely reporting a
burglary, he added.
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British pop star Robbie Williams said on Friday he did not care about his glaring lack of success in the United States, blaming himself for his failure to break into the world's biggest market. At a rare press conference before launching his first album in two years at a Berlin concert yesterday, Williams said Intensive Care was as close to perfect as he had come and that he selected only the 12 best songs from about 50 written for it.
Also on Friday he defended his
compatriot Kate Moss over recent allegations that the model took cocaine, saying she "never hurt or harmed anyone" and that "what she does in private should
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remain private. She is an absolute icon. She does nothing wrong,"
Williams, who has undergone rehabilitation for drug and alcohol abuse, accused people who denounced Moss for allegedly taking cocaine as hypocrites.
The 31-year-old model has since checked into a drugs rehabilitation clinic in Arizona.
Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger has taken the highly unusual step of releasing a statement rejecting as "nonsense" reports that his girlfriend is causing a rift with the rest of the veteran band.
The British star issued the statement -- described as "unprecedented" by his publicist -- late Tuesday, insisting that 38-year-old stylist L'Wren Scott, who he has been with for four years, got on famously with the other Stones.
A series of recent newspaper reports claimed Scott had tried to get Stones guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards to give up smoking and had criticized their taste in clothes.
Scott was "doing a Yoko", they claimed, a reference to John Lennon's partner Yoko Ono, the Japanese artist who some Beatles fans blame for causing the demise of that band in the early 1970s.
"It is completely untrue to say that L'Wren has caused a rift between myself, and the rest of the band," Jagger, 62, said in his statement.
"This is all nonsense, everyone has their own style. We have not had any disagreements about clothes, smoking or L'Wren, and this is all very hurtful for her."
French anti-fur activists said they struck Anna Wintour, editor of the US edition of Vogue, in the face with a cream pie on Saturday to protest against her support for the use of animal fur by the fashion industry. Wintour, dressed in a fur-trimmed black jacket, was hit in the face with a tofu cream pie as she left the Chloe fashion ready-to-wear show at the Tuileries Gardens in central Paris, members of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said.
Pop diva and actress Jennifer Lopez has put aside her usual glamour and is filming in a hilltop shantytown this week for a gritty movie about the murders of hundreds of women on the US-Mexico border. Wearing a blond wig, slacks and long-sleeved shirts, Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter sent to Mexico to investigate the wave of more than 300 slayings in Ciudad Juarez, a violent border city in Chihuahua state across from El Paso, Texas.
Oscar-winning US actor Nicolas Cage is also branching out, into television, signing on as the executive producer of a proposed new series about the paranormal, the industry press said Thursday.
Cage, 41, the star of such hits as Leaving Las Vegas and Gone in 60 Seconds, will play the big cheese behind the scenes on the two-hour pilot episode of The Dresden Files for the Sci Fi Channel, Daily Variety said.
Madonna will perform the first single from her new album, Hung Up, at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Lisbon on November 3, organizers said Thursday.
The US pop superstar will join Coldplay, Green Day, Foo Fighters, The Black Eyed Peas and Robbie Williams on stage at the annual ceremony which will be broadcast to a potential worldwide audience of around one billion people.
The 12th annual MTV Europe Music Awards will feature 29 separate awards, including 16 regional awards. -- AGENCIES
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