Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews, who recently went ‘missing’, has actually been arrested and is being held in a prison in Dubai, it’s been reported.
A few days ago, it emerged that a missing person’s report had officially been filed for Andrews, as the businessman’s whereabouts had been unknown for a significant amount of time.
It’s now been claimed that he was arrested by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, although the charge has not been confirmed.
Andrews’ father, Peter, said that his son is ‘OK’, and alleged that he was not abducted.
‘He has not been kidnapped but he is under arrest. I don’t know on what charge,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘I’m not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today. He is not at my house.’
A police source also reportedly told the publication: ‘Lee Andrews has been arrested.’
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’.
According to the publication, when Andrews was alleged to have gone missing, the British Foreign Office’s staff in Dubai were unable to track him down.
The authorities in Dubai also reportedly denied knowledge of his whereabouts at the time.
He had been living with his father, Peter, in Dubai before meeting and marrying Price, 48.
A few days ago, she revealed the final texts that Andrews, who’s believed to be in his early 40s, sent before his disappearance.
‘Lee has been missing for three days. The last time I heard from Lee was Wednesday night at 10 o’clock,’ the model said on Wednesday in a YouTube video.
‘He was trying to go through the border in Dubai to get on a flight to me… and this is so, so discombobulating… His location went off at 10:03 Wednesday night; that’s the last contact anyone’s had, his family and myself.’
On Thursday, Price was forced to end a podcast episode recording early after receiving a call from the police.
At the end of the episode, after Price’s sister Sophie asked her a question about camping at a festival, she then announced to their listeners: ‘Sorry for that intermission, Kate has had to shoot off because she is taking a call from the police, so that is it for today’s episode.’
Earlier on in the episode, Price shared about Andrews’ disappearance: ‘There’s nothing more for me to say aside from the police are now handling it. The British police, the British consulate, the Foreign Office, and Interpol.
‘They are all on the case now, looking for Lee, and a lot of people didn’t think this was serious; they still don’t think it is serious, so I have decided from today.
‘There is absolutely nothing more I can do, nothing more I can say and now the police are dealing with it, I’m just leaving it to the police.’
Metro has contacted Katie Price’s representative for comment.
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