Boy George may be at risk of losing ‘trademark for his name’

Boy George is astatine hazard of ‘losing the trademark to his name’ aft his set Culture Club amassed £12million successful debt.

The Karma Chameleon hitmaker, existent sanction George O’Dowd, founded the set successful 1981 alongside Roy Hay, Mikey Craig, and Jon Moss.

George began utilizing the moniker Boy George and, successful the aforesaid year, registered the sanction arsenic a trademark.

However, it has been reported that the vocalist lone trademarked the sanction until 2024, putting him astatine hazard of losing the rights to his signifier name.

Documents (per The Sun) besides revealed the trademark for Culture Club expired past year.

It comes aft Mispocha Touring – a institution tally by George and his bandmates Craig and Hay – collapsed successful 2023.

The band’s backmost catalog – including singles specified arsenic It’s a Miracle, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, and Time – are astatine the centre of a ineligible conflict that could spot them sold to a institution that specialises successful making wealth from classical tracks.

The work said Mispocha owes £1.37m to media concern specializer MEP Capital, and that the set has besides accumulated £12m successful debts with the bulk owed to circuit promoter Live Nation.

Failure to repay the MEP Capital indebtedness could spot the band’s backmost catalogue, name, and Boy George’s sanction taken from them.

A outgo program is successful spot that sees the musicians wage backmost £500,000 each six months until December 2027.

In 2023, George was allegedly ‘facing bankruptcy’ aft being sued by ex-bandmate and erstwhile person Moss.

The erstwhile drummer primitively sued for nonaccomplishment of net aft alleging that helium was ‘expelled’ by Culture Club’s manager successful September 2018 aft 37 years of ‘service’ to them.

Claiming that helium was told to ‘take a break’ from the European limb of the band’s 2018 satellite circuit Life, Moss said helium missed retired connected £188,000 successful profits.

He aboriginal amended the assertion to allege that George had attempted to defraud him retired of what helium was owed aft circuit funds were released to a institution reportedly owned by George.

Hitting back, George branded the fraud allegation a ‘personal attack’ and said it was ‘entirely untrue.’

The set was ordered to wage Culture Club founding subordinate Moss, 67, £1.75m aft a High Court battle.

The ineligible quality implicit the group’s profits and the worth of Culture Club was resolved a week earlier the proceedings that was meant to determine the worth of the Culture Club name, the profits made by the set since Jon’s alleged expulsion, and the magnitude helium mightiness beryllium entitled to receive.

A tribunal bid issued past said that the radical had agreed that a judgement should beryllium made successful favour of Moss, with his ex-bandmates required to wage him the £1.75m immediately.

Metro.co.uk has contacted representatives for Boy George and Culture Club for comment

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