Page 3 legend Sam Fox, 57, charged over ‘drunken bust-up’ on BA flight from Heathrow
PAGE Three legend Sam Fox has been charged over an alleged drunken bust-up on a plane.
The glamour model turned pop star, 57, will face court later this month.
She is accused of being drunk onboard an aircraft and using threatening, abusive or insulting words to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The Sun on Sunday revealed in January that Fox had been arrested and spent a night in a police cell after allegedly rowing with another passenger.
The apparent incident happened on a British Airways flight from Heathrow Airport to Munich in Germany on December 3 last year.
The plane was ready for take-off but was turned around, with passengers having to disembark due to the German airport’s strict 10pm closing time.
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They were put up in a hotel and flew the next day.
The Met said Fox, of Waltham Forest, East London, was charged by postal requisition.
COURT APPEARANCE
She will appear at Uxbridge magistrates’ court, West London, on March 22.
Fox’s rep was approached for comment.
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The star was hit by tragedy in March last year after her sister Vanessa died suddenly following a heart attack, aged 50.
The sisters were very close; ahead of her 2017 autobiography, Forever, Sam told how Vanessa saved her when their alcoholic dad Pat attacked her.
Sam, 56, recalled: “I thought he was going to kill me and begged him to stop. When I tried to get up he kicked me so hard in the stomach it winded me and he wouldn’t stop.
“My sister Vanessa heard what was going on and jumped on his back to get him off me.”
It is the latest heartache for model and pop star Sam – who first appeared in The Sun 40 years ago – coming eight years after her long-term partner Myra Stratton died of cancer.
In April last year, Sam landed a job on Virgin Radio as she branched out into a new career.
The star, who still looks incredible, added: “It’s been 40 years I’ve been in showbiz - I’m loving it more and more, I'd like to think like a fine wine - I am getting better with age.”
Sam enjoyed a stratospheric rise to fame after becoming one of The Sun’s Page 3 girls in 1983.
After finding her footing in the world of showbiz, Sam — who had insured her 34D assets for £1million and posed nude for Playboy magazine — became a household name.
