The latest hearing related to Katie Price’s bankruptcies has been adjourned so she can attend a “private interview” over her finances.
The former glamour model, from Brighton, was due to face questions from barristers in a specialist bankruptcy court today in a hearing known as a public examination.
But a judge adjourned the hearing after the 46-year-old’s lawyers asked for her to attend a “private interview” with barristers representing the trustee of her bankruptcies.
As she left the courtroom in the Rolls Building in London, the mum-of-five told journalists sitting in the public gallery: “I hope you reporters write a good story today, won’t you, all the b******t that you write, scumbags.”
During the hearing, Bertie Beor-Roberts, for Price, said: “We are asking the court to adjourn the examination generally.”
He continued: “The general purpose is to permit Ms Price to attend a private interview with the trustee and then to continue to engage constructively.”
Chief Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Nicholas Briggs agreed to the adjournment and asked Price whether she would give an undertaking to the court that she would attend the private interview on September 24.
He said: “It is important that the administration of justice is maintained, so if you fail to comply with the undertaking you will be at risk of being arrested.”
When asked whether she would give the undertaking, Price replied: “I do.”
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Dressed in all black and accompanied by another woman, Price, who lives near Haywards Heath, did not answer questions from reporters as she left in a black cab after the hearing concluded.
Mr Beor-Roberts earlier told the court that Price “accepts that things have not gone as smooth as they might have done to date” but that the case was “very complex”.
He argued that Price would be “able to give more answers in [a] private interview where there was no pressure from the media”, adding that there was a “real interest in Price giving that evidence which would be more helpful to the trustee and provide a resolution”.
Darragh Connell, representing the trustee, said it was “appropriate” to adjourn the hearing “on the basis that Price will attend that private interview”, adding that Price had instructed a barrister “less than 24 hours” before the hearing.
He said: “There has been an element of cooperation throughout proceedings. Since the arrest warrant, there has been more compliance.”
Price was first declared bankrupt in 2019 and in February this year was ordered to pay 40 per cent of her monthly income from the adult entertainment website Only Fans until February 2027 to help pay off her debts.
She was then declared bankrupt for a second time in March over an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000.
Price was arrested at Heathrow Airport earlier this month after an arrest warrant was issued in July for failing to attend a previous court date.
She was warned by a judge on August 9 to attend Tuesday’s hearing with “no ifs, no buts”, or face arrest again.
Her ex-husband, Alex Reid, was also in attendance at the hearing.
The public examination of her finances was adjourned until February 11.
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