Peaches 'disappointed' at loss of lingerie contract
Peaches Geldof has said she was disappointed to learn her contrcat with lingerie brand Ultimo was cancelled following claims about her private life.
“I am disappointed that Ultimo has decided not to extend my contract based on a wildly exaggerated account of a night in Los Angeles five months ago," she said.
“Whilst I vehemently deny parts of that account, I understand Ultimo’s decision. I have been proud to be the face of Miss Ultimo for the past year and wish the brand every success for the future.”
A lawyer for the model and socialite has denied reports of drug-taking, saying Geldof was drunk on a particular occasion which featrured in recent media reports.
Jonathan Coad said in a statement: “The allegations that our client was carrying and injecting heroin are ... denied, our client having consumed alcohol with the other individual leading to the ’highs’ described and portrayed in the photographs.”
Model agency Storm said it had no plans to drop Geldof from its books.
Geldof, the daughter of Bob Geldof, divorced rock musician Max Drummey after a six-month marriage last year.
They married in secret in a drive-in ceremony in Las Vegas after a 10-day romance.
Geldof’s mother Paula Yates died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, at the age of 40.
The former presenter of Channel 4’s Big Breakfast and The Tube had split from husband Bob Geldof five years earlier following an affair with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia, in 1997, and Yates went on to lose custody of the three children she had with Geldof - Peaches, Pixie and Fifi – the following year.
