Katie Price seems to agree with those who have been sceptical about her marriage to Lee Andrews: there’s a whole lot that hasn’t made much sense.
The reality TV star, 48, reportedly dumped her entrepreneur husband this week after discovering that he had just £2.22 in his crypto wallet, despite bragging about having a £32million fortune.
Lee, 42, is believed to be currently locked up in a Dubai jail after allegedly failing to pay back hefty debts, but it’s said that Katie ended their marriage on Monday via WhatsApp.
In her latest podcast episode, which she co-hosts with younger sister Sophie Price, the former glamour model refused to go into full detail about the state of her marriage, but still loosely addressed the reports.
‘I don’t want to go into detail as everything’s fresh at the minute, so I’m not going into detail about anything, but there’s just lots and lots and lots of things that haven’t made sense. I think I’ve just said enough here,’ she explained.
Sophie, who works as Katie’s publicist, interjected: ‘Have you seen my email inbox this morning? No. So I imagine your phone is pretty much like my phone this morning.’
Katie replied: ‘The way I look after myself and health is I don’t have to explain to people firing up my phone, because to them it’s just gossip. For me this is my life and the only person I need to look after is my head and myself.
‘Obviously you guys, family know everything.’
In the episode’s description, Katie acknowledged that fans would be listening for the ‘Lee updates’, but stated she would only talk about it at length when she’s ‘ready’ and promised they would be the first to hear it.
It comes after a source told The Sun that the eight-month marriage was ‘done’ and Katie had no plans to fly back to Dubai to reunite with her husband.
‘It was, of course, an accumulation of many things but the final straw came after Lee had told Katie he had $50million (£37million) in a crypto wallet, and promised her some of the funds,’ the insider claimed.
‘He gave her the “recovery phrase” — the passkey — to get into his account, and on Monday she had a financial expert access the wallet — and, to her shock, discovered it contained just $3, or £2.22.’
Despite the turmoil in her personal life, Katie has otherwise been living her best life this summer while Lee remains locked up.
In addition to releasing her Sky docu-series about her colourful life and career, Katie’s been partying in Ibiza and Marbella and spending time with her children: Harvey, Junior and Princess. She will also be heading on tour with Sophie to promote their podcast, The Katie Price Show.
If there’s any indication of how Katie’s feeling about her possible future separated from Lee, she recently told her Instagram followers: ‘Walking to my new adventures,’ alongside a video of her strutting down a nightclub corridor.
Everything Lee Andrews has been accused of since marrying Katie Price
Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner
When Katie introduced Lee as her new partner, he presented himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an investor in ‘SpaceX Hybrid Fitness’.
His social media, which boasted more than 100,000 followers, was filled with photos of luxury cars, lavish Dubai lifestyles and apparent encounters with celebrities including Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.
But the image quickly began to unravel. There appeared to be little evidence of his businesses operating as described, while several of the celebrity photos were later alleged to have been created using AI.
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.
Being jailed – and reportedly arrested again – in Dubai
Shortly after Katie returned to the UK, Lee remained in Dubai while dealing with financial issues.
Last month, it was reported he had spent four weeks in Dubai’s Al Awir prison over outstanding debts before being released.
On July 11, he was arrested again after allegedly attempting to raise around £120,000 he believed he owed.
According to The Sun, Lee sent a message to a friend saying: ‘They’ve arrested me. Katie might need to bail me out. We need to make a noise with a Go Fund Me.’
A spokesperson for Lahbab Police Station told the newspaper they had no record of Andrews being there, while Katie’s representative declined to comment.
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’.
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.
She later went on a podcast to share more details of her relationship with Lee, claiming ‘I genuinely thought that potentially he could have killed me.’
Faking a kidnapping
After Lee failed to return to the UK, Katie revealed she had concerns he’d been kidnapped and then reported him as a missing person.
He was later found to be in prison in Dubai. Following his release, he returned to social media with an extraordinary account of events, claiming he he had been ‘kidnapped at gunpoint’, ‘slapped around’ and falsely accused of espionage.
Dubai authorities have disputed suggestions he was detained over spying allegations, previously describing the matter as a private civil dispute.
Court documents later revealed two outstanding legal cases against Lee, including an alleged £54,000 debt linked to a rental car company and a separate claim for approximately £15,000 in unpaid legal fees.
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