Former glamour mannequin Katie Worth has been declared bankrupt for a second time over an unpaid tax invoice of greater than £750,000.
Ms Worth, who was beforehand declared bankrupt in 2019, owes £761,994.05 to HM Income and Customs (HMRC), a court docket was informed on Monday.
At a brief listening to at London’s Rolls Constructing, Insolvency and Corporations Courtroom Decide Sebastian Prentis stated Ms Worth had not responded to HMRC over the debt, and declared her bankrupt.
“There was no response from the debtor. The papers are so as,” he stated.
“There’s a substantial debt due from Ms Worth to HMRC, and due to this fact I’ll make a chapter order.”
The decide stated the invoice “derives from self-assessments from the yr 2020-21 and from the yr 2021-22” and contains earnings tax, VAT, surcharges and curiosity.
Ms Worth didn’t attend the listening to, which got here days after she was fined £880 for driving and not using a licence or insurance coverage in Northamptonshire in August final yr.
In February, she was additionally ordered by a distinct decide to pay 40% of her earnings from grownup leisure web site OnlyFans to trustees for the subsequent three years in a separate dispute over unpaid money owed, with the listening to informed she was on account of face questions on her funds in April.
She stated in October final yr she was “fed up” with being threatened with authorized motion and would go to jail to be “completed with all of it”.
Katie Worth at a earlier court docket date in 2022. Pic: Goff
Chatting with TV persona Michelle Visage on her podcast, Ms Worth mentioned her chapter and stated she had just lately been to court docket “extra occasions than I’ve had scorching dinners” and would “genuinely” not care if she was jailed.
In March 2023, she informed Jeremy Vine’s Channel 5 present that individuals shouldn’t be “ashamed” of being declared bankrupt and she or he had been struggling along with her psychological well being in recent times.
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She additionally apologised to the court docket throughout an October 2020 listening to, saying: “I simply have not been in a position to cope with these points or in the appropriate psychological state to know the whole lot that has been occurring.”
Sky Information has approached Ms Worth for remark.
