Katie Price has reportedly been dealt another major blow after her husband, Lee Andrews, was allegedly arrested again in Dubai just weeks after being released from prison.
According to The Sun, Andrews, 42, was taken to Lahbab Police Station on Friday while attempting to raise around £120,000 that he reportedly believed he owed.
The reported arrest comes barely a month after the businessman spent four weeks behind bars at Dubai’s Al Awir prison over separate financial matters.
A friend told the publication Andrews sent a message saying: ‘They’ve arrested me. Katie might need to bail me out. We need to make a noise with a Go Fund Me.’
Price, 48, is understood to be back in the UK with her eldest son Harvey while awaiting news of her husband’s expected release.
A source told the newspaper Andrews had become increasingly stressed in the days before the reported arrest because he was trying to raise money to settle what he believed he owed.
The latest development follows reports that Andrews had previously been detained over outstanding debts accumulated while living in the UAE.
Among the claims reported by The Sun were an alleged unpaid luxury hire car bill dating back to 2022, reportedly worth around £54,000, alongside an alleged £15,000 debt to a UAE law firm.
At the time, Andrews’ legal issues were said to stem from unpaid debts rather than new criminal allegations.
The latest reports come at what had appeared to be a positive moment for Price professionally.
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, though Lee has continually denied all allegations.
‘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 Sun claimed he was ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.
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Her new Sky documentary, Katie Price: Nothing To Hide, premiered this week, with the former glamour model laying bare the realities of her life, finances and relationships in what many viewers described as her most candid project in years.
Throughout the series, Price insists she wanted the programme to show the truth rather than a polished version of events.
The documentary also explores her whirlwind romance with Andrews, whom she married in January after a relatively short relationship, with Price repeatedly describing him as bringing stability into her life after years of turbulent headlines.