Boy George charged over cocaine find

GAY icon Boy George faces a battle to save his lavish New York home and career as a top DJ if he is convicted on charges of possessing cocaine, a leading lawyer has said.

The 44-year-old ex-Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O’Dowd, has protested his innocence but will effectively be excluded from America if found guilty.

George, whose family is from Tipperary, was arrested in the Big Apple on Friday by police responding to a report the singer made of a burglary at his luxury Manhattan home. It is alleged they found an amount of cocaine near a computer and more elsewhere in the apartment.