Held Hostage and Tortured by a PopStar

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

London, 2007:

Audun Carlsen, a 29 year old man was found bleeding in the street having just fled a nearby flat. But the story he was about to tell would shock everyone. Because his capturer, the person he was fleeing from, was a HUGE celebrity.

He’d just fled the home of 80’s British Pop Icon Boy George. Audun had been booked to model for George, who was trying his hand at photography. But suddenly the session took a strange turn and over the following months, George began acting erratic and paranoid towards Audun.

And on their second shoot, everything would take a dark turn. Audun would go through a crime he’d struggle to recover from for the rest of his life. But when news broke of what happened to him, the media went wild. Audun was labelled an escort, rumours spread like wildfire and his medical diagnosis often came before reporters even said his name.

Today we are sharing Audun Carlsen’s story, the victim of a crime so bad, his perpetrator would find himself behind bars for committing…

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast. I'm Eleanor Neal and in today's episode, we're in London in 2007
0:07.2	where a 29-year-old man wearing nothing but his underwear ran out into the street bleeding and screaming.
0:15.2	That morning he had been chained up and held hostage in a nearby apartment and now that he had very bravely escaped,
0:22.6	he could tell everyone exactly who had done this to him.
0:26.6	It was one of the most famous celebrities in Britain at the time, a 46-year-old pop star named Boy George.
0:35.6	Shhh, Shhh, Sous... Outlaw! pop star named Boy George. There's currently a film in the works all about the life of Boy George, who is probably one of the most famous pop boys to ever come out of Britain.
0:49.3	Not only did he have a solo career as Boy George, but he was also the lead singer of a band called
0:54.6	Culture Club who did Carma Chameleon. I'm not going to sing it for you, but I already know it's
0:59.0	going to be stuck in your head after you've watched this episode. Or if you're a reality fan,
1:02.9	maybe you saw him on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He's also done other shows like The
1:07.6	Voice. He was on, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here a couple of years ago.
1:11.5	These are quite recent things in Boy George's career timeline though. He originally rose to fame
1:17.0	in the 80s and he was massive in the 80s as part of the new romantic wave. He was known for
1:23.1	wearing makeup, not conforming to gendered clothing. And it wasn't just in Britain here where he was massive.
1:29.3	He was Mr. Worldwide, before there was a Mr. Worldwide in the form of Pitbull.
1:35.3	Boy George was selling out tours across continents.
1:38.3	And at the height of his fame in 1985,
1:41.3	24-year-old George Allen O'Dowd, which is his full name, came out as bisexual.
1:48.0	Me too! This was a huge deal at the time, especially because it was during the AIDS crisis,
1:54.0	where homophobia and the demonization of the LGBTQ plus community was at a peak.
2:00.0	And then about 10 years after he came out as bisexual,
2:03.5	he was then around 34 years old, he came out as completely gay. And I believe he still labels himself
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