Katie Price was today found guilty of yet another driving offence – but did not bother to turn up to court and walked away with a £880 fine.
The former glamour model, 45, drove a Range Rover on August 2 last year on the A14 bypass in Kettering, Northamptonshire, without insurance and without a valid driver’s licence after she was disqualified from driving in December 2021.
Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 in West Sussex on September 28, 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.
During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price had five previous driving bans.
Today’s hearing comes weeks after a High Court judge ruled that Price will lose nearly half of her monthly income from adult entertainment website OnlyFans for the next three years – after she was declared bankrupt in November 2019.
Katie Price is alleged to have driven her Range Rover without a valid licence or insurance on a bypass in Kettering in August 2 last year
Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 near Partridge Green on September 28, 2021
She was declared bankrupt with debts of £3.2m from her failed company Jordan Trading Ltd, which was set up to oversee her perfume and cosmetics line.
Barrister Darragh Connell – who was representing the trustees – said that Price had previously reached a voluntary agreement over her debts but failed to pay up.
He informed a specialist bankruptcy judge that the previous agreement included the TV personality making 36 monthly payments of £12,500 as well as a lump sum.
The trustees went to court to request an income payments order, meaning money would go from any salary towards paying Price’s outstanding debt.
Four companies were listed, including adult subscription website OnlyFans and celebrity photography agency Backgrid.
At the end of the hearing, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Catherine Burton declared the four companies are ‘obligated to deduct 40 per cent of the income due to be paid to Ms Price’ each month for the next 36 months.
She added that the 40 per cent portion will now be paid to a bank account chosen by the trustees.
The model has a long history of run-ins with the legal system over her driving. She has committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years
Today is far from the first time that she has had issues with the law related to her time on the road. The reality TV star has already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years.
Ms Price was fined almost £400 for speeding and driving with an ‘expired’ licence last month.
She had been going over 70mph in Gloucestershire, near to the National Star College in Cheltenham, where her son Harvey studies.
She was also given points on her licence due to the incident. Her Range Rover was seized eight days after that incident, which took place in July 2023.
She had only been back on the road for a short time following a driving ban that was the result of a drunken crash on a country road near her West Sussex home.
Ms Price avoided jail time due to a little known legal mechanism.
She was slapped with a two-year driving ban and a suspended sentence after she admitted to driving while disqualified, without insurance and drink driving.
The new court hearing comes weeks after a High Court judge ruled that Price will lose nearly half of her monthly income from adult entertainment website OnlyFans for the next three years
Price was declared bankrupt in 2019 with debts of £3.2m from her failed company Jordan Trading Ltd, which was set up to oversee her perfume and cosmetics line
She had agreed to take a drink-drive rehabilitation course, which reduced the ban by 24 weeks.
Ms Price has been on the end of repeated driving bans over the years.
In 2018, she landed a six-month ban for speeding after totting up 12 penalty points on her licence.
Five years earlier, she was disqualified from driving for a year for failing to respond to two speeding tickets.
In 2010, she was banned from driving for six months after running 83mph in a 70mph zone in West Sussex.