In a move no one saw coming, Katie Price has revealed an unexpected meet-up with Lee Andrews’ ex-partner.
The former glamour model, 48, married Lee in January after meeting him just days earlier.
In the months since, to say their romance has been filled with drama would be an understatement, as several women have come out accusing Lee of ‘scamming’ them, and some pretty bold claims about his so-called entrepreneurial successes have been exposed as lies.
The Dubai-based ‘businessman’ then went missing on May 13, having failed to make it to the UK once again, leaving Katie to face what was to be their first joint TV interview alone.
She launched a frantic search for her hubby, who insisted he had been kidnapped, before it emerged he had actually been arrested and detained at the notorious Al Awir central prison for alleged fraud.
Katie flew back to the UAE to get answers, but encountered another wall when she learned Lee had to cough up £150,000 to be released.
So, as she reportedly looks to the future – one without her fourth husband – Katie has formed an unlikely alliance with Lee’s ex, Dina Taji.
The Palestinian-born personal trainer dated Lee for over three years and discovered he had forged her signature to take out a £200k mortgage in her name.
She allegedly only found out when the mortgage company called her, and Lee was then reported to the authorities, resulting in him serving time behind bars and being slapped with a subsequent travel ban last year.
Lee initially denied having a ban on multiple occasions, claiming he can and does leave Dubai. He’s also denied being a scammer. In contrast, Katie eventually told her followers that he does have a travel ban, but you can ‘get one for anything’.
Dina hasn’t spoken about her relationship with Lee publicly, unlike his other ex, Alana Percival, who has been incredibly vocal about her experiences with his ‘lies,’ urging Katie to ‘run for the hills’.
She did, however, agree to meet Katie after the reality star reached out, and they recorded a podcast episode shortly before Katie returned home.
Teasing the full episode, Katie released a clip in which Dina said: ‘I was basically dating Lee, unfortunately, for three-and-a-half years, so I know I’ll have probably seen some of my pictures that showed up on social media.
‘But to be honest with you, I really didn’t care about responding to reporters and everyone that was messaging me, I mean, just out of respect.’
Dina then said of Katie: ‘If there was anything I wanted to share and kind of warn her, if anything, it would be woman-to-woman, you know? Face-to-face.
‘I don’t care about coming on here (online) and all this noise that’s happening.’
Katie then chimed in to declare that ‘women stick together.’
‘I came to Dina about one of the cases because I thought, “Is Dina involved?”
‘Then we had a cup of tea, as girls do; we’ve had a long chat, and that’s for us to know and you to find out in the future.’
The clip ended with Dina and Katie sharing a hug, with Katie stating that she’s ‘glad’ she met her.
Katie has made several visits this week to the prison where Lee is being held, but it is said she has not seen him in person.
Keeping her fans updated, yesterday, she detailed a phone conversation she had with him after arriving in Dubai with her videoographer.
Lee gave her ‘permission to get all his phones’ and his ‘belongings,’ which she did.
‘I still need to hear back from his lawyer if I can get a visit to see him,’ she said, adding that ‘time is running out’ as she was leaving for the UK on Friday.
Lee has assured Katie that he can afford to pay the six-figure sum to grant his release.
However, Katie is thought to have realised the only way that he is going to get out of jail is if she actually pays the fine. Fortunately, she’s decided that would be a ‘reckless’ move.
On where she stands now, a pal of Katie’s told the Daily Mail that she’s starting to accept that she’ll have to move on.
‘Katie is in pieces. To the outside world, she wants to keep up the bravado. But inside, she can’t believe how Lee has made her look,’ said the source.
‘He’s pulled the wool over lots of people’s eyes – especially women. And now, as it’s all being played out in the public eye, she’s at the forefront of the con.’
The insider called the prison where Lee is a ‘hellhole,’ from which he won’t be freed ‘anytime soon,’ unless someone else ‘stumps up tens of thousands of pounds.’
‘And whether, as a former bankrupt, Katie could come up with the money even if she wanted to is a big question,’ they added.
‘It’s looking like Lee’s conman lifestyle has finally caught up with him. And the last place you would want to be locked up is in Dubai.’
Katie is said to be ‘confused,’ but it seems likely she’ll be ‘heading to the divorce court once again.’
Everything Lee Andrews has been accused of since marrying Katie Price
Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner
When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was selling himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an ‘investor in SpaceX Hybrid Fitness.’
His profile, which had 111k followers, was littered with photos of the entrepreneur in the gym and enjoying the high life in Dubai – also appearing to rub shoulders with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.
However, it was all later exposed as a farce – with no information about his company on its website, and his snaps with celebrities appearing to also be AI-generated.
Being banned from leaving Dubai
After meeting and marrying her new husband in Dubai, it came time for Katie to fly home to the UK – however her husband was unable to join her.
This was due to the fact that he’d allegedly served time in Dubai’s Al-Awir central prison for suspected fraud, for allegedly taking out a £200,000 mortgage in his ex-girlfriend’s name without her knowledge.
The UAW bans people facing criminal investigations from leaving the country, however Lee denied he was unable to return to the UK and said there must be some ‘wrong details’.
However, Katie later confirmed he was subjected to a ban, but didn’t clarify why.
Teasing a fake pregnancy
Just a few weeks into their relationship, both Katie and Lee teased they were expecting a baby. After Katie declared she was ‘having his child’ Lee wrote they were a ‘perfect couple soon to be triple’.
At one point, the mum of five even urged her followers to pay £2.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.
Despite the attempts to generate publicity, she then confirmed she was not pregnant.
Scamming a string of women
Days after Katie and Lee tied the knot, two of his exes accused him of being a ‘liar, narcissist and manipulator’.
Two months later, it was then reported he’d been begging women for money weeks before he married Katie.
His ex Alana, then shared a post on Instagram calling him the ‘Tinder Swindler’ and claimed multiple women had contacted her saying he’d tried to scam them out of money too.
‘Ghosting’ his wife
After Lee failed to return to the UK last week, Katie revealed she had concerns he’d been kidnapped and then reported him as a missing person.
However, it was then reported that Lee had actually ‘ghosted’ his wife and was ‘squatting in a slightly run-down villa’ in Dubai and using a burner phone.
The publication reported he was ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.