Katie Price ordered to attend fresh court date over bankruptcy after arrest at Heathrow airport
Judge warns ex-glamour model ‘no ifs, buts or going on holiday’, saying she will face custody again if she fails to show up
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A judge has ordered former glamour model Katie Price to attend a further hearing later this month over her two bankruptcies with “no ifs or buts or going abroad”.
Ms Price, who was given bail after being detained when she landed at Heathrow airport on Thursday evening, was surrounded by photographers as she arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
Appearing remotely at a hearing at the Rolls Building on Friday, the 46-year-old was accompanied throughout the hearing by another woman whom she described as an “appropriate adult”.
Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Daniel Schaffer ordered Ms Price to give an undertaking to the court that she would attend a further hearing to face questions over her finances on 27 August at 10.30am.
He said: “These are undertakings to the court, meaning if you breach the undertakings in any way, shape or form, you will be brought back into custody.
“It is quite a serious matter.”
He continued: “You have to attend that date, no ifs or buts, no going abroad, no holidays.”
Ms Price confirmed that she understood that she must attend and later added: “I will move my diary for it.”
Judge Schaffer also discharged the arrest warrant issued against her on 30 July by a different judge after she had failed to attend a previous hearing.
Before Friday’s hearing, in a now-deleted statement on Instagram, Ms Price wrote: “I am aware that I am about to be detained at the airport which is obviously what the courts feel is necessary.
“I do hope of course for my sons sake who is with me that they will allow some dignity and protection for at least his sake as this will be extremely disturbing for him to see.
“Whilst I understand the importance and severity of the matter I do feel like I am being treated like a criminal.”
The hearing was held at the Rolls Building but Ms Price attended via a video link from an office of High Court enforcement staff at the Royal Courts of Justice nearby after arriving on foot.
She had been declared bankrupt in November 2019 and again in March this year.
In February, Ms Price was ordered to pay 40 per cent of her monthly income from the adult entertainment website OnlyFans to the trustee for the next three years, in relation to her first bankruptcy.
She was then declared bankrupt for a second time in March due to an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000 owed to HM Revenue and Customs.
Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Catherine Burton said Ms Price had received “very clear warnings” that she must attend the hearing on 30 July.
Judge Burton said that an arrest warrant was not issued “lightly” but that Ms Price had offered only “piecemeal cooperation” and failed to provide the “most basic information” in relation to her bankruptcies.
At the same hearing, the judge ordered that Ms Price deliver six of her vehicles to the trustee of her bankruptcies to help pay off money owed, including a pink Range Rover.
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