<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/03afef91-9677-4c57-bc38-52456c7c5054/BED42A49-1BA1-48B3-BB0A-A77C21E60B88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed" href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed" style="font-size: 11px;">news.sky.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.sky.com/img/39BD71BB-E3DC-4DBD-8738-5C2D9F31AC55" alt="Boy George" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed"><H2>Singer-turned-DJ Boy George has been jailed for 15 months for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed"><P class="imageCaption">Boy George arrives at court before he was sentenced to jail</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Singer-Turned-DJ-Boy-George-Jailed-For-Handcuffing-Male-Escort-To-Bed/Article/200901315204875?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15204875_Singer-Turned-DJ_Boy_George_Jailed_For_Handcuffing_Male_Escort_To_Bed"><P>The victim was dragged along the floor towards the bed and a manacle was put on his right hand and attached to a hook drilled into the wall.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BED42A49-1BA1-48B3-BB0A-A77C21E60B88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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