Boy George receives brutal news over rights as Culture Club faces money woes

Culture Club frontman Boy George is astatine hazard of losing the rights to his signifier sanction and the earning imaginable of his band's biggest hits aft agreements expired

Boy George is astatine hazard of losing the trademark to his signifier sanction aft his aged set amassed a staggering £12 cardinal successful debts.

The 63-year-old musician - whose existent sanction is George Alan O'Dowd - is the pb vocalist of the iconic caller question set Culture Club who archetypal roseate to prominence successful the 1980s and enjoyed smash hits with the singles Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Karma Chameleon. But the radical and the vocalist are astatine hazard implicit debts, trademark rights, and a controlling institution that could beryllium forced to merchantability up.

Reports emerged this play that O'Dowd trademarked his signifier sanction backmost successful 2014 - but the statement is said to person expired successful December 2024. It is besides said that extortion rights relating to Culture Club expired past twelvemonth excessively - leaving the task astatine hazard of becoming the people of a concern company.

What's more, the band’s backmost catalogue is said to beryllium astatine the centre of a ineligible conflict and could beryllium auctioned disconnected to a institution with a absorption connected profiting from classical hits. Mispocha Touring, the institution that handled the band’s net from concerts, is said to person gone bust nether the enactment of O'Dowd and bandmates Mikey Craig and Roy Hay successful 2023.

The Sun connected Sunday claims: "A study shows it owes media concern specializer MEP Capital £1.37million and nonaccomplishment to repay the currency volition effect successful the band’s name, the sanction Boy George and the band’s backmost catalogue being taken from them. The set besides has debts of astir £12million — astir of which is owed to US performance promoter Live Nation."

The study goes connected to claim: "It has been fixed a repayment program by administrators who are demanding £500,000 each six months until December 2027." The Mirror has contacted a typical of O'Dowd for comment.

Boy George himself, however, appears unbothered astir the reports astir the hazard to his aboriginal - and has been taking to societal media implicit the play to publicise an upcoming gig. He volition beryllium performing with Culture Club astatine the Uptown Festival successful London this July.

Reposting a video clip successful enactment of the booking, helium shared a connection reading: "Blackheath’s biggest ICON is coming backmost location this summer! That’s right. BOY GEORGE & CULTURE CLUB are returning to their origins to instrumentality implicit the signifier astatine Uptown Festival connected July 27th, acceptable to dazzle america erstwhile again with his unmistakable voice, bold fashion, and legendary signifier presence."

The announcement continued: "Still request much reasons not to miss this? We’ve got much announcements to come, positive Uptown’s signature fairground rides, delicious nutrient & drinks, a ace exclusive VIP area, and an unbeatable atmosphere!"

There was a quality study that grabbed the singer’s attention, however, and helium shared a nexus to it via his Instagram Stories. He appeared alarmed implicit a study with a headline: “UK pistillate charged successful tribunal for bombarding her lover’s ex with videos of her farting" - the communicative of 25-year-old Rhiannon Evans who was charged aft pleading blameworthy to “cyber-farting”.

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