Bankrupt Katie Price dodges court hearing over £3.2million debts for a SIXTH time as she battles to save her Mucky Mansion
By Connie Rusk[1] and Ciara Farmer For Mailonline[2]
Published: 01:32, 12 January 2024 | Updated: 01:53, 12 January 2024
Katie Price[3] has dodged a bankruptcy court hearing for the sixth time over her GBP3.2million debt repayment.
The former glamour model, 42, was due to appear at an insolvency court in London next month but her case has now been adjourned until the end of April, reports The Sun.
Katie, who was once worth GBP45million, will be battling to save her GBP2million Sussex home nicknamed the ‘Mucky Mansion’.
It was given the nickname after it fell into a state of disrepair. But over the past two years, Katie has been turning the 19-room vandalised and uninhabitable mansion back to its former glory after bagging a Channel 4[4] renovation show.
Katie’s court hearing has now been moved multiple times in a bid to bring the insolvency case to an end.
Katie Price has dodged a bankruptcy court hearing for the sixth time over her GBP3.2million debt repayment. The star will be battling to save her GBP2million Mucky Mansion
The television personality will need to answer questions about her finances, in the wake of her lengthy monetary woes.
Price was declared bankrupt in 2019 with debts of GBP3.2m from her failed company Jordan Trading Ltd, that was set up to oversee her perfume and cosmetics line.
She has been due to explain to a judge details of her income from her TV work, including a Channel 4 show following renovations of her GBP2m country home.
Despite being bankrupt Price has seemingly led a lavish life, including exotic holidays with her on-off fiance Carl Woods.
She has avoided being grilled in person since November 2021. MailOnline has contacted Katie’s representatives for comment.
Katie appeared in an online hearing in September but it was quickly adjourned due to ‘members of public causing chaos in online hearing’.
The Sun reported Katie alleged she was ‘scared and anxious’ as screenshots on the hearing had been posted on ‘tattle sites’ – seemingly a reference to gossip forums.
Cameras are not permitted in court hearings in any form and screenshots of online hearings are banned and risk jail time if found to be doing so.
The former glamour model, 42, was due to appear at an insolvency court in London next month but her case has now been adjourned until the end of April
The television personality will need to answer questions about her finances, in the wake of her lengthy monetary woes
Katie was once worth GBP45million but declared bankrupt in 2019 with debts of GBP3.2m from her failed company Jordan Trading Ltd (pictured 2007)
Katie appeared in an online hearing in September but it was quickly adjourned due to ‘members of public causing chaos in online hearing’ over fears photos were being taken
The publication claimed Katie told the judge: ‘Your picture has already been put on this tattle site and they are talking about it…
‘My anxiety levels have gone up.
There are people on here who shouldn’t be on here. I’m just protecting you guys as well as myself.’
An attendee in the remote hearing revealed she was ‘an interested member of the public’ and insisted: ‘I have not put [up] any screenshots.’
The Government website details: ‘Court and tribunal hearings in England and Wales usually take place in public. This means you can observe them whether you’re a journalist, academic or member of the public…
‘You cannot record, broadcast or take photos of any hearing, no matter how you’re observing it…
If they think it’s necessary for the proper administration of justice, a judge can decide to hold a hearing in private, with no observers allowed.’
When the woman claimed she had not taken screenshots, Katie stated: ‘You are here to sl** me off. I’m scared to be on here because of these people. They are awful people.
I get anxiety. I’m petrified.’
His Honour Judge Paul Greenwood demanded everybody leave the call, by ground of ‘losing control’ of the hearing, and postponed to next year.
He said: ‘I’m not entirely sure I can maintain control of the hearing or the dissemination of the hearing. I’m going to exclude everybody who is not party and hear this short directions hearing in private…
‘I cannot be sure that the integrity of the hearing is not being affected by the broadcast.
In order it should be capable of being conducted, I’m going to direct it is going to be in private.
Everyone who is not party must leave the meeting.’
Last July, Katie hit back at trolls who questioned her over her bankruptcy, saying she still ‘owns her GBP2.5million house’ and stated: ‘Never knock someone who is bankrupt, we all can go there but it doesn’t mean that it is all bad.’
In 2021, the star was once again hit with a repossession order on the Mucky Mansion after failing to pay a GBP500,000 debt.
References
- ^ Connie Rusk (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Ciara Farmer For Mailonline (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Katie Price (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Channel 4 (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Katie Price (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Channel 4 (www.dailymail.co.uk)