Katie Price has opened up about the reason she claims she had to leave her family home – known as the Mucky Mansion – in May last year.
Reports at the time suggested Katie, 46, had been served eviction notices on the property due to her bankruptcy issues. Katie has always denied this was the case.
The mother of five has now claimed that she ‘handed back the keys’ to the property after being caught up in a fly-tipping fiasco on her acres of land.
In an interview on the Disruptors podcast, Katie recalled meeting a man named Andrew Chatters, 49, who promised to transform her pad into a wedding venue.
However, after work got underway on the site, the OnlyFans star claimed that she discovered was not all as it should be.
Recalling the story, she said: ‘So the reason I got out of my house. I was introduced to a guy who said, why don’t we turn your house into a wedding venue? Because you’ve got stables, we’ll do a big gallop track in your fields.
Katie Price has opened up about the reason she claims she had to leave her family home – known as the Mucky Mansion – in May last year
It was previously reported that Katie was evicted for not paying the mortgage in May last year and was forced to sell the rundown nine-bedroom home
‘And where your tennis court is, we’ll knock that down and we’ll build you a brand new one and a brand new five bedroom house.
‘Showed my mum all the stuff, all legit. He sold us the dream. He started getting everything at my house. There was all diggers in the field.’
Detailing the moment she began to worry that something was amiss, she said: ‘And then one day when we went to the house to film, I went out in the fields and I thought. What is actually going on here?
‘This doesn’t look like it’s a gallop track, and that’s when people messaged me and said “oh my god, kate is with this fraudster”.
Revealing details about the man she had employed – who has been to prison twice for tax fraud offences – she said: ‘He’s called Andrew Chatters and what was the other name he gave me, Andrew George, I had no idea.’
‘He fly tips on your fields. Then we caught him out. Then I’m left with the house. Council on my case saying you’ve got to get rid of all this flytipping – it’s contaminated, this and that.
‘And I’m like but it wasn’t me that’s done it. We had quotes that it was going to cost me about £800,000 to get it all back right.
‘So I was like, do you know what? I’ll give the keys back, I don’t want it. You can have it back.’
The mother of five has now claimed that she ‘handed back the keys’ to the property after being caught up in a fly-tipping fiasco on her acres of land
Andrew, of Witchford, Cambridgeshire, was jailed for five years for fraud offences
Katie is pictured in the back of a car on holiday in Turkey in 2019 with ex boyfriend Charles Drury (left, in blue) and builder Andrew (right, circled, in white)
It was previously reported that Katie was evicted for not paying the mortgage in May last year and was forced to sell the rundown nine-bedroom home.
It was put on the market for £1.5million but was later sold for a fraction of the price, with a buyer snapping up the country pile for £1.15million.
Katie didn’t see a penny for the sale as it was swallowed up by the debts she previously ran up against the Sussex home. She has since moved into a new four-bed property in Sussex.
In 2019, it was revealed that Katie stayed in villa in Turkey with Andrew, who is a convicted fraudster and thief who was jailed for five years.
Andrew, of Witchford, Cambridgeshire,was jailed for two years in March 2016 after defrauding local businesses out of £88,000.
This was added to a three-year sentence given one year earlier to the former captain of non-league Ely City FC for £69,000 of tax fraud in December 2015.
Andrew, who set up the Katie with her ex boyfriend Charles Drury, was on holiday with the couple and their children Bunny, Jett and Harvey.
At the time it was thought that the builder was working on refurbishing Katie’s mansion in Sussex before work was halted because she had failed to get planning permission, reported The Sun.
Katie claims that Andrew was fly tipping on her land (pictured her land in 2023)
Katie bought her home in Sussex for £1.35million in October 2014
Andrew confirmed to the newspaper that he spent 26 months in prison.
In March 2016 he was said to have lived an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ on thousands of pounds defrauded from businesses, including buying six racehorses.
He conned victims by fraudulently obtaining and using credit cards, persuading them to invest large amounts of cash and signing credit agreements.
He was found guilty of 13 charges of fraud by false representation and one charge of theft and was sentenced to two years in prison.
Among his crimes was opening a trade account in another person’s name by forging their signature for products worth more than £10,000.
He also hired a track excavator worth £27,000 which has never been returned, and signed cheques worth £20,640 he was not authorised to sign to buy six racehorses.
Cambridgeshire Police said at the time he ‘had no boundaries to who he would commit fraud against and enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle on other people’s money’.
In December 2015, he was jailed after being found guilty of two counts of cheating the public revenue contrary to common law after a trial at Brighton Crown Court.
An HMRC fraud investigator said at the time following this sentencing that he ‘thought that he could fiddle his taxes and line his own pockets but he was wrong’.
Her £2million mansion, a former home of politician Francis Maude, boasts nine bedrooms, a two bedroom annexe, 12 acres of land, a pool, tennis court and stables.
She bought it for £1.35million in October 2014, but it fell into a state of disrepair, with the grounds strewn with rubbish and the pool full of dirty water.
