Price, 46, from Surrey, has been remanded in custody at a west London police station after returning from Turkey and is due to appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday.
Katie Price has been arrested at Heathrow Airport after the glamour model failed to attend a bankruptcy hearing. Can the embattled star bounce back from this latest drama, asks Katie Rosseinsky.
No one does drama like Katie Price
After almost thirty years of tabloid notoriety, from her short lived singing career to her Cinderella-style wedding, the model and reality star now seems to be embroiled in her most chaotic chapter yet.
On 30 July, a warrant for Price’s arrest was issued after the 46-year-old failed to turn up for a bankruptcy court hearing about an unpaid tax bill. It’s the second time she has been declared bankrupt.
Price was in fact abroad, apparently filming a documentary about cosmetic procedures – in Istanbul, Europe’s de facto capital of plastic surgery, no less.
She has since put out a defiant statement on Instagram, claiming that she is “not running” from her troubles. “Despite consistent stories trying to humiliate me on my personal misfortunes, I am neither embarrassed nor ashamed,” she said.
“I own my situation and I am trying my best to work my way out of it and put matters right.” Then on Thursday evening (8 August), she was arrested at Heathrow Airport and remanded in custody at a west London police station.
The former glamour model was arrested upon her return to the UK on Thursday evening after failing to appear at court, and was initially remanded in custody at a west London police station.
But the PA news agency understands Price was bailed by an out-of-hours magistrate on Thursday evening.
Price, 46, from Surrey, will appear at the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday, according to the Metropolitan Police.
It comes after an arrest warrant was issued by a judge after she failed to attend a hearing relating to her bankruptcies.
Price previously said she was “not running from matters”, but was “away working for a documentary on corrective surgeries” during the court hearing.
She was declared bankrupt in November 2019 and again in March this year.
At a hearing in February, she was ordered to pay 40% of her monthly income from the website OnlyFans for the next three years, in relation to her first bankruptcy.
She was declared bankrupt for a second time in March because of an unpaid tax bill of more than £750,000.
Previously, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Catherine Burton said Ms Price had received “very clear warnings” she must attend the hearing on 30 July.
She had been due to face questions about her finances in the specialist bankruptcy court in London from barristers representing the trustee of her two bankruptcies.
The judge at the previous hearing said she risked arrest if she did not attend further court dates, adding that evidence must be provided if she could not appear.