Why would you leave drugs out 'in plain view' when the police are knocking on your door. That is really too bad. Alligator, it does sound like someone ratted him out.
I was just enjoying his interviews last night in "The Legend of Leigh Bowery"... my thoughts even then, sometimes it doesn't pay to live too long.
When I was looking for space in NYC which now seems like a long protracted nightmare version of "NO EXIT" by Sartre... I found a fantastic place on a block
between Center and Lafayette. That whole block is owned by one interesting family who's had it since the 1880's. The landlord was telling me about the Celebritays who dwelt on that block, and was pleased to let me know one of them was Boy. It would be nice if he sticks by him through this... though more likely he'll rent it out at a premium to some new-in-town rich trash with the sticker "Boy George Got Busted Here."