An angry gay-charity organizer wants convicted cokehead Boy George to return a $10,000 performance fee the singer and DJ was paid, because he failed to turn up for a two-hour concert last year. Event organizer Chris Harris hired George to perform a two-hour DJ set at a gay fund-raiser in Rhode Island, scheduled the day after the singer’s arrest. Instead, George flew back to England and skipped the performance.As George left the New York City Sanitation Department yesterday, after the fourth session of his five-day sentence cleaning the city’s streets, Harris confronted the former pop star. "As you can imagine, there is a lot going on," George told Harris. "I didn’t take your money." Harris alleges he paid George’s former booking agent, Andria Law of the British agency Red Parrot, $5,000 up front and the remainder when the contract was sig
ned.It is believed Red Parrot made a similar deal with a separate gay charity in South Florida.The former pop sensation’s manager, Jeremy Pearce, confirmed to The Post that at least one other charity was left in the lurch – with the two owed as much as $20,000 combined.Pearce said the first move following his high-profile client’s arrest last October for cocaine possession and making a false report to police was to cancel all upcoming gigs."It seems not all the people were told and some of the deposits went astray," Pearce said. Pearce insisted, however, that "George didn’t get any money out of it. And he will be looking at doing the gigs."
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It really is not Boy George as much as the manager who kept the deposit. He did not deliver the artist and should give the money back. But more importantly, Boy George is worth $10,000?
