NY- BOY George hired a male hustler who tried to rob him the morning the cross-dressing Culture Club singer was busted for cocaine possession, PAGE SIX has learned.
George called 911 last Friday morning to report that his Centre Street apartment had been burglarized – but he was arrested when cops found a mound of what appeared to be Bolivian marching powder piled near his computer.
A source said that George called 911 after the hustler he’d ordered up demanded that he hand over all of the money in the house.
“George said no and that he was going to call the police,” says our source. “The prostitute said, ‘Go ahead and you’ll go to jail.’ So George freaked out because he was high, called the police, the prostitute left, and George got arrested.”
A police source said George did not mention the hustler when he was arrested. His lawyer, Lou Freeman, could not be reached for comment yesterday. But he told The Post last week that the cocaine was not George’s, adding, “Tons of people come in and out of his home.”
The only person in the apartment besides George when officers arrived was his friend Kyoko Nagami, a Japanese model and drag queen groupie. According to police sources, Nagami flipped on her friend, telling cops there was “a lot more” coke in the bedroom.
George, who a police source said “appeared high” when he was busted, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and filing a false police report. He was released last Saturday after appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, and was told to return for a Dec. 19 hearing. He has since flown back to London, where he has a home.
“Don’t ask me any questions because you are not going to get any answers at all,” George told reporters who pounced on him at Heathrow Airport. “It’s nice to see you, though.”
The singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, wrote about his battle with heroin addiction in his 1995 autobiography, “Take It Like a Man.” In 1986, Culture Club keyboard player Michael Rudetski died of a heroin overdose while staying at George’s London pad. That same year, George was arrested for pot possession.
In recent years, the flamboyant “Karma Chameleon” crooner has built a second career as a club deejay and record producer.