Boy George fights sacked Culture Club drummer over fraud claim

Jon Moss, the band’s drummer, has accused Boy George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, of “conspiring to defraud” him of £188,000 after he was sacked from a lucrative overseas tour.

Efforts to resolve the dispute had “not been fruitful”, the court was told yesterday. There was a “considerable lack of trust and goodwill”, Celia Rooney, Moss’s barrister, said. She added that the failure of mediation would mean a court battle